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Julian by Gore Vidal (1985, Mass Market)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345329082
ISBN-139780345329080
eBay Product ID (ePID)163046
Product Key Features
Book TitleJulian
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1985
TopicLiterary, Historical
GenreNon-Classifiable, Fiction
AuthorGore Vidal
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight8 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
Reviews"High entertainment." -The New York Times Book Review "A subtle, provoking, enthralling book. . . . Vidal's ability to invoke a world is amazing." -The Christian Science Monitor "Simply great. . . . A truly monumental novel." -Associated Press "Historical fiction in the true, honorable sense. . . . Full of vivid, richly wrought fictional detail." -The Wall Street Journal "Impressive. . . . To the formidable task which Vidal sets himself, he brings an easy and fluent gift for narrative; a theatrical sense of scene and dramatic occasion; and a revealing eye and ear for character delineationto say nothing of wide reading." Newsweek "A real hero. . . . An excellent book." Chicago Daily News "Gore Vidal has the sharpest sense of what political power consists of, how it is achieved and what it does to a man. And at the same time he is funny, roaringly funny. . . .Julianis a brilliant beacon of light in the dim grey landscape of the historical novel." Louis Auchincloss "A brilliant study of Julian's era. . . . That rare historical novel which enjoys all the virtues of good history and good fiction." Washington Star "No odder figure ever guided the destinies of the Roman Empire than the Emperor Julian Augustus. Here was a recluse and a scholar who became a great military leader, an ascetic who preached the life of the senses, a fatalist who believed he would remake the world. . . . He is endlessly fascinating." Time From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisRecreates the brief but brilliant career of the Roman emperor and philosopher who dedicated himself to the restoration of Hellenism.
