num_pages: 347
description: 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 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 style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.
language: English
title: Memoirs of Hadrian
titlecomplete: Memoirs of Hadrian
characters: Trajan (emperor), Vibia Sabina, Antinoüs, Hadrian
genres: 20th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Philosophy, French Literature, Novels, Literature, Classics, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 27927
places: Rome, Alexandria, Athens
awards: awardedAt: -568051200000
name: Prix Femina Vacaresco
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux