Augustus a Novel by Allan Massie and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru In Allan Massie's fictional account of the life of Augustus there is a similar awareness of the way that political life is all about reacting to unpredictable realities. Massie succeeds admirably in bringing to life the architect of Imperial Rome and the society that surrounded him/5. We know that Augustus, the first Roman emperor, did write an autobiography but it has not survived. Allan Massie gives a fictional account of what its contents might have been from the future Augustus's reaction to the assassination of Julius Caesar down to the end of his life/5(4).
Just like in Augustus, author Allan Massie presents the readers with a great insight into the mind of another great Roman emperor, Tiberius. Allan Massie creates another engrossing and skillful fictional memoir of a less-promising historical figure. Tiberius reputation oscillates between that of a prosaically punctilious and that of an. Augustus|Allan Massie, Bears (New True Book Series)|Mark Rosenthal, Nuclear Power Plant Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer: A Primer|Charles E. Tomlinson, Constitutionalism Of The Future: Or Parliament The Mirror Of The Nation ()|James Lorimer. Looking for books by Allan Massie? See all books authored by Allan Massie, including royal stuarts: a history of the family that shaped britain, the, and Augustus, and more on bltadwin.ru
ALLAN MASSIE. The author was born in Singapore in , brought up in Aberdeenshire and educated at Glenalmond and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read history. His other novels include THE LAST PEACOCK, which won the Frederick Niven Award in , A QUESTION OF LOYALTIES, winner of the Saltire Society/Scotsman Book of the Year Award, THE DEATH OF MEN, THE SINS OF THE FATHER, and TIBERIUS and CAESAR, the second and third in this trilogy of 'Roman' novels of which AUGUSTUS is the first. Augustus a Novel by Allan Massie and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at bltadwin.ru In Allan Massie's fictional account of the life of Augustus there is a similar awareness of the way that political life is all about reacting to unpredictable realities. Massie succeeds admirably in bringing to life the architect of Imperial Rome and the society that surrounded him.
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