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Authors: Anthony Everitt
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Born and bred in what is now northern Spain to a family of olive-oil magnates, Hadrian was lucky enough to benefit from the patronage of his maternal cousin, Tr
Oriental Tales
Language: en
Pages: 162
Authors: Marguerite Yourcenar
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986-10 - Publisher: Macmillan

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Authors: Marguerite Yourcenar
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This posthumously published collection of essays takes up such diverse subjects as the poet Oppian, Tantrism, the feasts of the Christian year, Durer, the Japan
Fires
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-11-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Fires consists of nine monologues and narratives based on classical Greek stories. Antigone, Clytemnestra, Phaedo, Sappho are all mythical figures whose stories
The Abyss
Language: en
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Authors: Marguerite Yourcenar
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The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a