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Memoirs of Hadrian

Mémoires d'Hadrien

by Marguerite Yourcenar

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About Memoirs of Hadrian

Yourcenar's 1951 masterpiece — a letter written by the dying Roman Emperor Hadrian to the young Marcus Aurelius, covering his life and reign, his love for Antinous, his administrative achievements, and his meditations on power, beauty, and death; twenty years in the making by the first woman elected to the Académie française.

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