Augustus - John Williams - New York Review Of Books/libri - Poche - Essai

From the author of the international bestseller, Stoner, John Williams' third novel is a dazzling historical fiction about the life of Emperor Augustus, heir to Julius Caesar. A novel-in-letters, this edition of Augustus will go on sale on the 2000th anniversary of the emperor's death, thus taking part in an international publishing event. WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD By the Author of Stoner In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master. John Williams, introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn