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Augustus by John Williams (2011, CD Mp3)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBlackstone Audio, Incorporated
ISBN-101441774556
ISBN-139781441774552
eBay Product ID (ePID)92947787
Product Key Features
Book TitleAugustus
Publication Year2011
TopicGeneral, Literary, Historical
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Williams
FormatCD Mp3
Dimensions
Item Length7.5 In.
Item Width5.3 In.
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition18
ReviewsOut of the events surrounding one of the pivotal moments in Western history...John Williams has fashioned an always engaging, psychologically convincing work of fiction., One is drawn deeply into a world whose complexity, luxury, political cynicism, public gullibility, and violence seem very much like our own., Williams has immersed himself in ancient history, its figures, its conflicts, its complicated intrigues, and its often primitive turmoil. In his vivid panorama, the Golden Age sparkles with an eloquence, at times, approaching the poetic., Strong and striking...Intelligent and intuitive, this excellent historical novel makes the world of Ancient Rome a place in which we feel instantly at home., A novel of extraordinary range, yet of extraordinary minuteness, that manages never to sacrifice one quality for the other., It would be easy to over-praise this novel; but there does not seem any adequate reason why this temptation should be resisted, especially as Mr. Williams in his turn resists the obvious one of allowing irony too prominent a part in the proceedings., Augustus is a vividly imagined re-creation of classical Rome, but its intuitive grasp of the experience of immense power makes it an unusual, and superior, novel.
Dewey Decimal823/.9/1
Edition DescriptionUnabridged edition
Table Of ContentTitle Info. Dedication Prologue: Letter: Julius Caesar to Atia (45 B.C.)Book I. Chapter 1. I. The Memoirs of Marcus Agrippa: : Fragments (13 B.C.)Chapter 2. I. Letter: Atia and Marcius Philippus to Octavius (April, 44 B.C.)Chapter 3. I. Letter: Gaius Cilnius Maecenas to Titus Livius (13 B.C.)Chapter 4. I. Letters: Strabo of Amasia to Nicolaus of Damascus from Rome (43 B.C.)Chapter 5. I. Letter: Marcus Antonius to Octavius Caesar; from Athens (39 B.C.)Chapter 6. I. Letters: Nicolaus of Damascus to Strabo of Amasia, from Antioch and Alexandria (36 B.C.)Book II. Chapter 1. I. Statement: Hirtia to Her Son, Quintus, Velletri (2 B.C.)Chapter 2. I. Mail Packet: Letters to Octavius Caesar in Gaul, from Rome (27 B.C.)Chapter 3. I. The Journal of Julia, Pandateria (A.D. 4)Chapter 4. I. Letter: Nicolaus of Damascus to Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, from Jerusalem (14 B.C.)Chapter 5. I. The Journal of Julia, Pandateria (A.D. 4)Chapter 6. I. Letter: Gnaeus Calpurius Piso to Tiberius Claudius Nero, on Rhodes (4 B.C.)Book III. Letter: Octavius Caesar r to Nicolaus of Damascus (A.D. 14)Epilogue: Letter: Philippus of Athens to Lucius Annaeus Seneca,
SynopsisA brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for power--Cicero, Brutus, Cassius, and Mark Antony--young Octavius must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor. Sprung from meticulous research and the pen of a true poet, Augustus tells the story of one man's dream to liberate a corrupt Rome from the fancy of the capriciously crooked and the wildly wealthy.
Number of Pages1 pages
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