Presents a vast canvas of 16th-century Europe convulsed by wars and religious schisms as the modern world struggles to be born. The hero, Zeno, the bastard son of a Florentine prince of the Church and a wealthy Flemish banker's daughter, is an outsider, an intellectual in advance of his time.

Zeno of Bruges

Literature & Fiction

Marguerite Yourcenar

Genre Fiction

The Harvill Press

Memoirs of Hadrian

Penguin??Books

Fictionally portrays the private and public lives of the Roman Emperor from 76 to 138 A.D

Memoirs of Hadrian and Reflections on the Composition of the Memoirs of Hadrian

Literary

Fictionally portrays the private and public lives of the Roman Emperor from 76 to 138 A.D

Memoirs of Hadrian, and reflections on the composition of memoirs of Hadrian (English and French Edition)

Contemporary

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Marguerite Yourcenar instantly assumes command of our imagination in her novel The Abyss. Almost before we know it the author establishes a scene and time, and engages us in the fate of two cousins.

The Abyss

Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux

This collection includes: How Wand-fo was Saved, Marko's Smile, The Milk of Death, The Last Love of Princess Genji, The Man Who Loved the Nereids, Our Lady of the Swallows, Aphrodissia; the Widow, Kali Beheaded, The End of Marko Kraljevic, The Sadness of Cornelius Berg, and a Postscript by the Author.
"From China to Japan, the Balkans to India, Oriental Tales addresses love, conquest, betrayal, murder, religion, and passion in an eloquent and exquisite telling."--Kirkus Reviews.

Oriental Tales

Short Stories & Anthologies

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

The Abyss (Black Swan)

Black Swan.

Coin In Nine Hands

Coup de Grace (Black Swan) [paperback] Yourcenar, Marguerite [Jan 01, 1984]

Coup de Grace (Black Swan)

Les Memoires d'Hadrien (7 audio compact discs in French) (French Edition)

French & European Pubns

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