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Hardy, W.G. [William George ]

Turn Back the River

Macmillan & Co, 1938

40.00 €

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(STREETSVILLE, Canada)

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Year of publication
1938
Place of printing
Toronto
Author
Hardy, W.G. [William George ]
Publishers
Macmillan & Co
Edition
1st Canadian Edition.
Keyword
FICTION ANCIENT ROME CATILINE CLODIA CATULLUS CICERO CANADIAN, WRITER
Cover description
Very Good, Slight Chips & Tears
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

(Author was Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta) Fictional biography of Clodia "The story of a passionate , intelligent ,patrician woman set in the brilliant decadent Rome of the last days of the free Republic. The woman is Clodia, the lustrous-eyed 'Lesbia" for whom the romantic Catullus burnes so fiercely and who inspired him to write some of the most intense love lyrics of all time. She had a turbulent career, this Clodia. Daughter of one of the proudest houses of Rome . fell under the spell of the dark, enigmatic Catiline, later there were many men in her life - Julius Caesar . her husband the consul Metellus Celer, and Cicero, the great orator, who poured upon her one of the most vitriolic speeches ever composed by this master of invective" 385p.