I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54

A modern classic of historical fiction written in the form of Claudius's autobiography.

Tiberius Claudius Drusus Nero Germanicus lived from 10 B.C. to 54 A.D. Despised as a weakling and dismissed as an idiot because of his physical infirmities, Claudius survived the intrigues and poisonings that marked the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and the mad Caligula to become emperor of Rome in 41 A.D. The first part of Robert Graves's two-part account of the life of Tiberius Claudius, I, Claudius stands as a landmark historical novel of the 20th century from one of its great writers.

Author: Robert Graves
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/23/1989
Pages: 468
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780679724773
ISBN10: 067972477X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Classics
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical | General

About the Author
ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985) was a poet, novelist, and critic. His first volume of poems, Over the Brazier (1916), reflects his experiences in the trenches, and was followed by many works of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction. He is best known for his novel, I, Claudius (1934), which won the Hawthornden and James Tait Black Memorial prizes, and for his influential The White Goddess (1948).