TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilder,Thornton
TI  - The ides of March
SN  - 9780060088903
AV  - PS3545.W673.I347 2003 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Perennial
KW  - Caesar, Julius
KW  - Leisure Reading
KW  - Fiction
N1  - 2
N2  - Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel. The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities. In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar --
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc042/2003047117.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc042/2003047117.html
ER  -