The Ides of March (Penguin Modern Classics)

Thornton Wilder

Penguin Books

1948

218 páginas

7h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780140087895

Set in Rome in 45 B.C., and inspired in part by the conspiratorial chain-letters against Mussolini that circulated in Italy under the twentieth-century fascist regime, The Ides of March is a 'fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman Republic'.
Julius Caesar is portrayed through his own eyes and those of his friends, lovers and enemies as he waits for his inevitable assassination, measuring his political strenghs and his fatal weaknesses. With tenderness, wit and wisdom, Thornton Wilder has written one of the best historical novels of this century.