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Fiction and Poetry
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266 pages, Hardback 135x215mm, Portrait
Published June 2010 |
ISBN-10: 1906768145 ISBN-13: 9781906768140
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Nero: a Novel
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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. |
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| 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.
Related title(s): Chile Rediscovered By Vincent Cronin
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