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Mémoires d'Hadrien
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Marguerite Yourcenar |
*Mémoires d'Hadrien* est un roman historique de l'écrivaine française Marguerite Yourcenar, publié en 1951. Ces pseudo-mémoires de l'empereur romain Hadrien ont immédiatement rencontré un extraordina… |
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The monsters of St. Helena
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Brooks Hansen |
"Brooks Hansen's new novel is the story of Napoleon Bonaparte's last exile, in 1815, on the island of St. Helena in the Atlantic, "the place on earth farthest from any other place." The island is pop… |
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Napoleon
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Robert Burleigh |
A brief introductory biography of Napoleon. |
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Napoléon
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Georges Lefebvre |
At the time when Napoleon Bonaparte assumed control of France, Europe and the French Revolution had been at war for over seven years, and except for a brief interruption, this conflict was to last un… |
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EMPERORS DON'T DIE IN BED; TRANS. BY S.J. LEINBACH
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FIK MEIJER |
This fresh and engaging book looks at each of the Roman emperors from Julius Caesar in 44BC to Romulus Augustulus in AD 476, illuminating not only the manner of their deaths but what their final days… |
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Bride By Command (Emperor's Bride)
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Linda Winstead Jones |
Disguised as a sentinel, the emperor of Columbyana is shocked that his next bridal candidate isn't interested in becoming an Empress. Determined to teach the haughty beauty a lesson, the Emperor stri… |
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The age of Augustus
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Don Nardo |
Describes the politics, culture, religion, and society of Rome during the reign of the Emperor Augustus. |
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Napoleon
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Kimberley Heuston |
An engaging biography of Napoleon Bonaparte--one of the most brilliant and reckless generals in history--who declared himself emperor of France in 1804, conquered lands from Portugal to Poland, made … |
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Constantine
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Paul Stephenson |
This book is a fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian. In 312 A.D., Constantin… |
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Alexander II
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Ėdvard Radzinskiĭ |
Alexander II was Russia's Lincoln, and the greatest reformer tsar since Peter the Great. He was also one of the most contradictory, and fascinating, of history's supreme leaders. He freed the serfs, … |
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Napoleon
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Paul Bede Johnson |
A bestselling historian's vigorous and searching biography of the towering figure who cast his shadow over two centuriesIn an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johns… |
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De vita Caesarum
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Suetonius |
First-century Roman life is portrayed in sketches of the family histories, public careers, physical traits, private lives, and vices of Roman rulers from Julius Caesar to Domitian. |
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The book of crows
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Sam Meekings |
In a series of delicately interlaced stories, Sam Meekings' richly poetic and gripping second novel follows the journeys of characters whose lives, separated by millennia, are all in some way touched… |
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Le vite minori dell'Historia Augusta. D. Septimius Clodius Albinus
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Antonio Aste |
In questo saggio si ricostruisce la vicenda di D. Septimius Clodius Albinus (147-197 d.C.) alla luce delle fonti antiche con particolare riguardo alla biografia dedicatagli dall’Historia Augusta. Il … |
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Napoleon and the Revolution
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David P. Jordan |
"This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career… |
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The emperor's virgin
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Sylvia Fraser |
THE MARBLE SPLENDOR OF IMPERIAL ROME WAS A STAGE FOR THE EMPEROR'S SAVAGE BLOOD LUST.
His word was law. No one was beyond the reach of his depraved desires. Except Cornelia, the Vestal Virgin. Keepe… |
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Titus of Rome
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Alice Curtis Desmond |
A biography of the second Flavian emperor who was noted for his generosity and regard for the people's welfare. |
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The cabinet of curiosities
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Theresa Dowswell |
When Lukas Declercq is orphaned, his uncle summons him to Prague, a refuge for Europe.s greatest alchemists and natural philosophers, offering to take him on as an apprentice. Uncle Anselmus is court… |
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Augustus
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Richard Holland |
The Emperor Augustus, ruler of the Roman Empire during the forty-four years that included the birth of Christ, was born a plebeian and brought up in a backwater. So how did this small-town outsider r… |
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César imperator
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Max Gallo |
Le destin exceptionnel de Jules César retracé grâce à de surprenantes et authentiques révélations. Connu pour ses campagnes militaires, son oeuvre littéraire et ses amours, ce grand homme de l'histoi… |
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