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A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs. A mere eighteen years of age when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic. Surrounded by men who are jockeying for powerCicero, Brutus, Cassius, a...

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John Williams's deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges not only as an archetypal American but as an unlikely existential hero, standing in stark relief against an unforgiving world.

William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to a university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life. As the years pass, Stoner encounters a series of disappointments: marriage into a proper family estranges him from his parents, his career is stymied, his wife and daughter turn coldly away from him, a transforming experience...

Just eighteen when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic and must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor.

Just eighteen when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic and must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor.

Just eighteen when his uncle, Julius Caesar, is murdered, Octavius Caesar prematurely inherits rule of the Roman Republic and must work against the powerful Roman political machinations to claim his destiny as first Roman emperor.

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