Augustus
Published on 19. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-59017-821-8 (ISBN)
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WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
By the Author of Stoner
In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.
By the Author of Stoner
In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner. Augustus is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
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Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59017-821-8 (9781590178218)
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