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Glory Of The Empire: A Novel, A History by Barbara Bray (English) Paperback Book
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- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Glory of the Empire: a Novel, a History
- Item Height
- 203mm
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Genre
- Fairy Tale
- Item Width
- 130mm
- Item Weight
- 447g
- Number of Pages
- 392 Pages
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This is one of renowned French novelist Jean d'Ormesson's masterpieces, a dazzling fictional history that won d'Ormesson the Grand Prize from the Academie fran aise when it was first published in 1971, but has been unavailable to English-speaking readers for decades--until now. The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Prince Basil of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the Bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired to learn how to die, come alive in The Glory of the Empire, along with generals, politicians, prophets, scoundrels, and others. D'Ormesson also goes into the daily life of the Empire, its popular customs, and its contribution to the arts and the sciences, which, as he demonstrates, exercised an influence on the world as a whole, from East to West, and whose repercussions are still felt today. But it is all fiction, a thought experiment worthy of Jorge Luis Borges, and in the end The Glory of the Empire emerges as a great shimmering mirage, filling us with wonder even as it makes us wonder at the fugitive nature of power and the meaning of history itself.
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Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
ISBN-13
9781590179659
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Book Title
Glory of the Empire: a Novel, a History
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fairy Tale
Number of Pages
392 Pages
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Item Height
203mm
Item Width
130mm
Item Weight
447g
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