Summary
‘An astonishingly imaginative recreation’ Jan Morris, The Times
The Emperor Constantine crosses the Alps at the head of a great army from the Rhineland in AD 312, and marches south to take Rome from the tyrant Maxentius. As he lays siege to the city of Verona, Constantine waits for the arrival of his wife, Fausta - his enemy’s sister - whose cool detachment torments him.
Emperor is a superbly imaginative reconstruction of the dramatic weeks leading up to Constantine’s…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099287292 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099287293 |
| Author: | Colin Thubron |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 15 August 2002 |
| Weight: | 139g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 11mm |
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Critics Review
Colin Thubron has chosen to present his vividly original concept of Constantine as a mosaic of fragments from letters, written orders, jottings from supposed journals of the emperor and his train and, most revealing of all, extracts from the correspondence of his lovely, tragic, inaccessible wife, Fausta * Sunday Telegraph *
It is a stylish, sensitive exploration of complex people in an era of complexities, and creates vividly the climate of an over-ripe civilisation falling into self-questioning – Mary Renault
‘Legionaries and their commanders, frigid empress and frivolous lady-in-waiting, and, above all, the ambitious, domineering, but also self-tormenting and restlessly questioning Constantine - all come vividly to life and persuade the reader that he is their contemporary.’ * The Listener *
About The Author
Colin Thubron
Colin Thubron was born in 1939, and worked in publishing before travelling in North Africa, the Middle East, Russia and China.
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