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Category - Fiction / Historical Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Fair
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Pocket paperback, 431 pages.- Vintage, used, Although cover shows wear and tear, book is intact, tight and very readable.- The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor, who famouy 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 Greatas one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genious on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshiping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thrity-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign.
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