I, Claudius

Informationen zum Autor Robert Graves was born in 1895 in Wimbledon. He went from school to the First World War, where he became a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers and was seriously wounded at the Battle of the Somme. He wrote his autobiography, Goodbye to All That , in 1929, and it was soon established as a modern classic. He died on 7 December 1985 in Majorca, his home since 1929. Klappentext Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Robert Graves's brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, and stands as one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written. Zusammenfassung Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties.

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I, CLAUDIUS and CLAUDIUS THE GOD are an imaginative and hugely readable account of the early decades of the Roman Empire ... racy, inventive, often comic Daily Telegraph

Product details

• Authors: Robert Graves, Robert von Ranke Graves, Barry Unsworth
• Assisted by: Barry Unsworth (Introduction)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.08.2006
• EAN: 9780141188591
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118859-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics; Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Political, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Ancient Rome, Classic fiction, Biographical fiction