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    I, Claudius

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    Author Robert Graves
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    $19.00 US
    Knopf | Vintage
    5.17"W x 7.99"H x 1"D  
    On sale Oct 23, 1989 | 480 Pages | 9780679724773
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
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    Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a weakling and dismissed as an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings that marked the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the mad Caligula to become Emperor of Rome in 41 A.D. I, Claudius, the first part of Graves's two-part account of the life of Tiberius Claudius, is written in the form of Claudius's autobiography and stands as one of the modern classics of historical fiction.
    Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist, translator, and author of more than 120 books of history, mythology, and fiction, including the historical novel I, Claudius and the mythological study The White Goddess. Born in England, he made his home in Majorca after 1929. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1971. Good-bye to All That is his only autobiography. View titles by Robert Graves
    "One of the really remarkable books of our day, a novel of learning and imagination, fortunately conceived and brilliantly executed." —The New York Times

    "Claudius unforgettably describes his imperial predecessors, famous and infamous, in Robert Graves's glorious evocation of decadent Ancient Rome." —Malcolm Burgess, The Guardian

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    Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a weakling and dismissed as an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings that marked the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the mad Caligula to become Emperor of Rome in 41 A.D. I, Claudius, the first part of Graves's two-part account of the life of Tiberius Claudius, is written in the form of Claudius's autobiography and stands as one of the modern classics of historical fiction.

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    Robert Graves (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist, translator, and author of more than 120 books of history, mythology, and fiction, including the historical novel I, Claudius and the mythological study The White Goddess. Born in England, he made his home in Majorca after 1929. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1961 and made an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, in 1971. Good-bye to All That is his only autobiography. View titles by Robert Graves

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    "One of the really remarkable books of our day, a novel of learning and imagination, fortunately conceived and brilliantly executed." —The New York Times

    "Claudius unforgettably describes his imperial predecessors, famous and infamous, in Robert Graves's glorious evocation of decadent Ancient Rome." —Malcolm Burgess, The Guardian

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