The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History

by Jean d'Ormesson

Book Overview

The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous ways made him a byword for infamy, and the romantic Alexis the bastard, who dallied in the fleshpots of Egypt, studied Taoism and Buddhism, returned to save the Empire from civil war, and then retired "to learn to die," come alive in The Glory of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159017965X
• ISBN13: 9781590179659
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A Novel Like No Other

This book describes the rise of a fictitious empire. Ormesson recounts in detail the heroes and heroines of this nation, that is at once like and unlike that of the Roman Empire. This book is the spellbinding result of meticulous research and boundless imagination.