The Cicero Trilogy

Harris, Robert

£35.00

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Publish Date: 16/09/2021
ISBN: 9781786332929 Category: Tag:

Description

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‘One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.’ The Times

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

‘Laws are silent in times of war.’ Cicero

One of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.

The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero’s private secretary, Tiro: the law cases and the speeches that made his master’s name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him – Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself – brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane.

More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy – a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.

Additional information

Weight 1231 g
Dimensions 240 × 162 × 60 mm
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Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Hardback

Pages

1360

Language

English

Edition

Omnibus ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K