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ABYSS by YOURCENAR MARGUERITE
Category: Fiction
Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel "The Abyss." Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.
Coup De Grace by Marguerite Yourcenar
Category: Fiction
Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, "Coup de Grace" tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose u ...Show more
Memoirs Of Hadrian : and Reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian by Grace (TRN) Marguerite; Frick Yourcenar
Category: Classics | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, "Memoirs of Hadrian" has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as em ...Show more
Memoirs of Hadrian: And Reflections on the Composition of Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
In her magnificent novel, Marguerite Yourcenor recreates the life and death of one of the great rulers of the ancient world. The Emperor Hadrian, aware his demise is imminent, writes a long valedictory letter to Marcus Aurelius, his future successor. The Emperor meditates on his past, describing his acc ...Show more
That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar
Category: Culture
This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japanese studies of Ivan Morris, the erotic mysticism of the Gita-Govinda, the eternal spirit of Andalusia, and Bede's Ecclesiastical History. The ti ...Show more
Two Lives and a Dream by Professor Marguerite Yourcenar
Category: Fiction
This book of three novellas was first published in Paris in 1982, where it was hailed as the finest book of novellas since Flaubert's Trois Contes.
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