Augustus
(Book)
Author
Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2014].
Physical Desc
xx, 305 pages ; 20 cm.
Status
Central Point Library Branch
F WILLIAMS J
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F WILLIAMS J
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Redwood Campus
Williams John Augustus
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Williams John Augustus
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, [2014].
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Introduction copyrighted 2015.
Description
"Winner of the 1973 National Book Award. In Augustus, the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a[n] historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose greatness was matched by his brutality. To tell the story, Williams also turned to a genre, the epistolary novel, that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master. "[In Augustus,] John Williams re-creates the Roman Empire from the death of Julius Caesar to the last days of Augustus, the machinations of the court, the Senate, and the people, from the sickly boy to the sickly man who almost dies during expeditions[;] to what would seem to be the ruthless ruler. Read it in conjunction with Robert Graves's more flamboyant I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Hermann Broch's The Death of Virgil, and Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian."--Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation"--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Williams, J. (2014). Augustus . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Williams, John, 1922-1994. 2014. Augustus. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Williams, John, 1922-1994. Augustus New York Review Books, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Williams, John. Augustus New York Review Books, 2014.
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