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266 pages, Hardback
135x215mm, Portrait

Published June 2010



ISBN-10: 1906768145
ISBN-13: 9781906768140
 
Nero: a Novel
 
Nero is history told on a grand scale. Cronin, a scholar of the ancient world and Rome in particular, recreates the life and times of this mighty emperor.

Interwoven through the plots and intrigue is the implicit notion that Nero himself led the Empire's demise through his misjudged ruthlessness and towering ego.

The decline of Rome, the persecution of the Christians and the tragedy of Seneca are grippingly played out through these pages.
Vincent Cronin - Vincent Cronin, son of the Scottish novelist, A J Cronin is a doyen of English letters. His book The Last Migration, which won the Heinemann Award, was based on his own journey with the Gashgai of southern Iran. He widened his reputation with his outstanding biographies of Christianity's first missionaries to India (A Pearl to India: the Life of Roberto de Nobili) and to China (The Wise Man from the West: Matteo Ricci and his Mission to China), and a range of later biographies - of Napoleon, Catherine the Great, Louis (XVI) and Antoinette, and his masterly Four Women in Search of an Ideal (Caroline de Berry, Marie D'Agoult, Eve Hanska and Marie Bashkirtseff). Vincent Cronin lives in Brittany.

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Chile Rediscovered By Vincent Cronin