Julian

Name: Julian
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gore Vidal
ISBN: 9781543696837

Author: Gore Vidal

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner, George Newbern, David de Vries, Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 17 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 09/03/2019

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal’s finest historical novels.Julian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, Julian captures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.

About Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) was born at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, Williwaw, written when he was 19 years old and serving in the army, appeared in the spring of 1946. He wrote 23 novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over 200 essays, and a memoir.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Terence on March 17, 2009

I don't know how or why anyone would let a thirteen year old withdraw this book from a public library but someone did, and it went a long way towards forming my mind. For better or worse. Julian the Apostate was born just a little too late: the last Hellenist (pagan) in the family of Constantine, who......more

Goodreads review by Eric_W on November 19, 2011

Julian the Apostate was emperor of Rome from 361-363 CE and the nephew of Constantine. Raised in a strict Christian environment (although of the Arian tradition), he formally announced his conversion to paganism in 361 and became a public enemy of Christianity. That provides the background for Vidal'......more

Goodreads review by Justo on August 23, 2020

En el top 10 de mi ranking de Novelas Históricas. Una obra maestra. Este maestro de la Literatura, que es Gore Vidal, nos narra la vida de uno de los Emperadores más controvertidos de la historia del Imperio romano. Último superviviente de la dinastía constantiniana, junto con su primo Constancio II,......more

Goodreads review by Laura on August 28, 2012

In my sad and maddening teenage years, I happened on my mother’s copy of the Oxford Book of British Verse and read through it with the doggedness I had at the time. One poem that hit me hard was Algernon Charles Swinburne’s Hymn to Proserpina, written in the voice of a Roman lamenting the passing o......more