Augustus (John Williams - paperback)

Author: John Williams

ISBN: 9781590178218

Binding: paperback

Section: Fiction

In Augustus, his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge: a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in Butcher's Crossing and the campus novel in Stoner.