| I, Virgil Contributor(s): Wishart, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1534752617 ISBN-13: 9781534752610 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.58 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: He is poisoning me. I saw it in his eyes before we sailed, despite the smile on his lips: 'It's only a fever, Virgil. And you deserve it for traipsing off to Greece without telling me. What made you think the poem needed three years' editing, you beetroot?' It is as artificial as it sounds, this bluff heartiness and rustic eccentricity of language. Like so many of his amiable qualities it serves a very practical purpose. Octavian is nothing if not a pragmatist. Literally nothing. Strip the layers from an onion. The bit that is left, that is Octavian. I, Virgil, the 'autobiography' of Rome's greatest poet, traces the fall of the Republic and the rise of the first emperor, Augustus Caesar. Warts and all. |
