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Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780743266031
ISBN: 074326603X
Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 19, 2006
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Studio: Simon & Schuster
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Rating:  - Spectacular
"Imperium" is brilliant. Robert Harris produces a historical novel that zips through with high intensity while maintaining steady grip on reality. Its amazing the tension Harris builds during the political events in the novel. Normally such events are not the stuff of thrillers, but not so here. Also wonderful are the characterizations, especially Cicero himself. Another favorite for me is Julius Ceasar who enters the novel early in his career. The "insider perspective" the reader gets into how ... Read More
Rating:  - Imperium
Educational and fast story line. I bought other books by this author as a result.
Rating: - `It is in the nature of things that all politicians can achieve greatness.'
This is a novel about Cicero, told from the perspective of his amanuensis, Tiro. Starting in 79 BC and finishing in 64 BC, Mr Harris writes a powerful novel that portrays historical events and people in republican Rome while bringing both the times and the characters to life.
The life of Marcus Tullius Cicero (approximately 106 to 43 BC) essentially coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman Republic. Cicero was a lawyer, an orator, a politician and a philosopher. His writings ... Read More
Rating: - Following Cicero's First Steps.
Robert Harris (1957) is a successful English novelist. He started his writing career as a journalist, continued writing some non-fiction books till he wrote his first great success: "Fatherland" (1992) an alt-his novel exploring a world where Germany won WWII.
After writing some more noteworthy novels Harris has turned his attention to the fascinating world of Ancient Rome (one of my preferred themes) starting with "Pompeii" (2003) and more recently issuing the present "Imperium" (2006) the first ... Read More
Rating: - The story of Cicero's rise to fame
I loved Richard Harris' earlier book Pompeii which I though was a work of subtle genius for its low key portrayal of a humble Roman civil engineer investigating water supply problems in a provincial town. It just turns out that the town was Pompeii on the eve of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius and the first warning was the drying up of public fountains. Imperium is something else entirely. It is the story of Marcus Cicero's rise to fame as Rome's greatest advocate and orator. Cicero is remembered as a brilliant ... Read More
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