Download or read book Memoirs of Hadrian written by Marguerite Yourcenar and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-05-18 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his gradual reordering of a war-torn world, writing with the imaginative insight of a great writer of the twentieth century while crafting a prose style as elegant and precise as those of the Latin stylists of Hadrian's own era.