Memoirs of Hadrian
by Marguerite Yourcenar

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.  (courtesy of https://ipage.ingramcontent.com) This is the second of two meetings discussing this work.