It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out o...
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Number of Pages: 493
ISBN: 0679755489
ISBN-13: 9780679755487
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Sam Burt @wordsburt
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Jun 19, 2018
- Curated in Must-read Novels About Writers
“Out of the last hours of Virgil’s life and the final stirrings of his consciousness, the Austrian writer Hermann Broch fashioned one of the great works of twentieth-century modernism, a book that embraces an entire world and renders it with an immediacy that is at once sensual and profound.”