The Death of Virgil by Jean Starr Untermeyer, Hermann Broch

The Death of Virgil

Jean Starr Untermeyer, Hermann Broch

496 pages first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics historical poetry challenging reflective slow-paced

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It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his c...

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