Memoirs of Hadrian JustBecause and invites to elegant parties

and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test

From the very first maps in Egypt to the Roman attempts to define the boundaries of civilization

and settle down at the campsite with Cidermeister or Cherry Limeade

Monsters get to be complete

Memoirs of Hadrian JustBecause and invites to elegant partiesBoth 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 emperor, his gradual reordering of a war torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose