07572cam a2200457 4500 254408316 TxAuBib 20160302120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307957962 0307957969 B00XG95GM4 Amazon b397bf4a-b842-43f8-9ce2-2ad81c340559 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 215723 2286217 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Harris, Robert, 1957- Dictator [Bridges eBook] : Cicero Series, Book 3. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3294kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 3294kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Historical Fiction. ancient rome. Fiction. Cicero. HTML:"Masterly . . . Harris's version of the events preceding Caesar's assassination is persuasively realized, and he renders the terrifying uncertainty of its aftermath with such skill that the ensuing betrayal and destruction of the Roman Republic can almost draw a tear. . . . the emotional heft is deeply satisfying." --Toby Clements, The Telegraph (London) "[Harris] has a pitch-perfect ear for class snobbery, hypocrisy, parliamentary posturing and bluster. His best episodes bring crucial behind-the-scenes moments in Roman political skullduggery to colourful life. He writes with swaggering confidence. . . . Harris does not disappoint. His Caesar is a menacing, genocidal psychopath, but so charismatic that everyone in Rome, including Brutus and the other assassins, is left strangely bereft in the days of eerie crisis following the Ides of March. . . . I enjoyed Dictator enormously. Harris loves Cicero and communicates his own fascination with the epic showdown that constituted the fall of the Roman Republic. . . . A sensational political thriller . . . It is often funny and touching. I could not put it down." --Edith Hall, The Guardian "[This is] one of the best political-military events in history and Harris takes full advantage of the time, the place and the events. . . . this superbly structured and fast-paced novel brings the epoch alive, ties it in to current events and brings the cast of living characters--Caesar, Cleopatra, Mark Antony, et al. --to vivid brawling life. . . . Compared with this series of perfectly true events, Watergate really was a fifth-rate burglary and Richard Nixon's henchmen simply a gang of plumbers. You will read every one of its pages with relish." --Margaret Cannon, The Globe and Mail (Canada) "A remarkable literary achievement . . . A trilogy that is likely to stand alongside the works of Robert Graves and Mary Renault as an enduring imaginative vision of the ancient world." --Stephanie Merritt, The Guardian "There's a huge amount to enjoy in this Roman romp." --Sam Leith, Financial Times "A tremendous creation . . . Harris always tells a great story." --Na. Publishers Weekly. HTML:Imperium . . . Conspirata . . . and now Dictator—the long-awaited final volume of Robert Harris's magnificent Ancient Rome Trilogy At the age of forty-eight, Cicero—the greatest orator of his time—is in exile, separated from his wife and children, tormented by his sense of failure, his great power sacrificed on the altar of his principles. And yet, in the words of one of his most famous aphorisms, "While there is life, there is hope." By promising to support Caesar—his political enemy—he is granted return to Rome. There, he fights his way back to prominence: first in the law courts, then in the Senate, and finally by the power of his pen, until at last, for one brief and glorious period, he is again the preeminent statesman in the city. Even so, no public figure, however brilliant and cunning, is completely safeguarded against the unscrupulous ambition and corruption of others. Riveting and tumultuous, Dictator encompasses some of the most epic events in ancient history—the collapse of the Roman Republic and the subsequent civil war, the murder of Pompey, the assassination of Julius Caesar. But the central problem it presents is a timeless one: how to keep political freedom unsullied by personal ambition, vested interests, and the erosive effects of ceaseless, senseless foreign wars. In Robert Harris's indelible portrait, Cicero attempts to answer this question with both his thoughts and his deeds, becoming a hero—brilliant, flawed, frequently fearful yet ultimately brave—both for his own time and for ours. From the Hardcover edition.. HTML:"To render convincingly a period as remote as that of Cicero's is a stiff challenge for a novelist to meet, but it is the measure of Harris's achievement that we experience a 2,000-year-old crisis as though we were reading about it in a contemporary memoir. . . . Yet the real triumph of Dictator is how successfully it channels what is perhaps the supreme fascination of ancient Rome: the degree to which it is at once eerily like our own world and yet profoundly alien. The challenges faced by Cicero will be recognizable to many a contemporary senator: welfare dependency; the legacy of illegal wars; anxiety that a venerable constitution is no longer fit for its purpose. . . . If it is indeed a mirror that Dictator holds up to the present, then the reflections it offers are unsettling and admonitory. This is historical fiction that is the very opposite of escapist.". HTML:Tom Holland, The New York Times Book Review. HTML:"Harris gives ancient history the feel of an ongoing thriller, a true-life Game of Thrones. But for all the pyrotechnics, his depth and fidelity put him in league with Marguerite Yourcenar." --Boris Kachka, Vulture "Cicero's was a life rich in gravitas and drama, and Harris depicts it with erudition and élan. . . . Harris seems to have mastered every telling aspect of the world and the conflicts he dramatizes. . . . The new novel's predecessors--Imperium and Conspirata--made ancient history exciting. Dictator goes even further, imparting wisdom and consolation.". HTML:Dennis Drabelle, The Washington Post. 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