Caesar: A Sketch
James Anthony Froude · 1879
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Description
James Anthony Froude sketched Julius Caesar's life in 1879, and Victorian readers made it a bestseller. Froude admires Caesar without reserve, as the strong man his own age lacked. Rome's fall from republic to one-man rule becomes a gripping personal tale.
Brilliant and readable, the sketch races from Gaul to the Ides of March. Froude defends Caesar's ambition as a cure for a rotten system. Scholars faulted his ease with fact, yet the public loved him. The book showed that Roman history could sell like a novel, and it still reads as a bold, fluent brief for its hero.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | James Anthony Froude |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1879 |
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 915 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | Public Domain |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg #8425 |