The Abyss: A Novel by Marguerite Yourcenar

The Abyss: A Novel

Marguerite Yourcenar with Grace Frick (Translator)

374 pages 1968

24 editions

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Marguerite Yourcenar's novel of sixteenth century Europe is, like Memoirs of Hadrian, essentially a meditation on the nature and condition of man. But unlike the Hadrian it is direct narrative, and is somber, even bitter in tone, portraying the st...

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