Julian by Vidal, Gore

Julian (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375727061)

Vendor: Gore Vidal
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Format: Paperback
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Julian by Vidal, Gore

Julian

$20.00
Julian by Vidal, Gore

Julian

$20.00
Format: Paperback
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The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels.

Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.

Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN-10: 037572706X
ISBN-13: 9780375727061
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 08/12/2003
Pages: 528
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.21w x 0.93d

Review Citation(s):
New Yorker (The) 10/26/2015 pg. 83
By Gore Vidal
By Gore Vidal
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Gore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.

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