The ides of March
by Thornton Wilder
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The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.
In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar -- Cleopatra, Catullus, Cicero, and others. All Rome comes crowding through these pages -- the Rome of villas and slums, beautiful women and brawling youths, spies and assassins.
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Murder, Fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Heads of state, City and town life, History, Romans, Julius Caesar, Gay authors, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Generals, In literaturePeople
Julius Caesar, Jules César, Marc Antony, Cicero, Brutus, CleopatraPlaces
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The ides of March
1987, Perennial Library
in English
- 1st Perennial Library ed.
0060914033 9780060914035
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