Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century RomeChicago Review Press, 1 aug 2005 - 255 pagina's In this vivid, dynamic novel, Hella Haasse has once more brought the past to life. This time she has chosen to illuminate a crucial, yet relatively obscure period of history: it is 414 A.D. and the once-powerful Roman Empire is in its death throes—split between East and West, menaced by barbarian hordes almost literally at its gates. The Emperor Honorius, an incompetent weakling, cowers in the marsh-bound city of Ravenna, where he has moved the government; he rarely "makes entry" into Rome. This is the brilliant canvas against which the characters in this drama interact. There is the Prefect Hadrian, a powerful official and fanatical Christian convert; there is Marcus Anicius, the pagan aristocrat who is clinging to a dying past, and there is the Jew Eliezar be Elijah, hemmed in by his own traditions and burdened by his dark vision of the future. There is the intrigue and uncertainty of life at Honorius's court, and there are the streets and tenements of Rome, pulsating with life and with corruption. |
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Pagina 23
... become hollow at the core. He gestures toward his officials. “Today, on the third day of Nones of July, in the fifth hour after sunset, I, Aulus Fronto, Commander of the third division of the praetorian guard, made, with my men, a raid ...
... become hollow at the core. He gestures toward his officials. “Today, on the third day of Nones of July, in the fifth hour after sunset, I, Aulus Fronto, Commander of the third division of the praetorian guard, made, with my men, a raid ...
Pagina 34
... become necessary . . . " “He's a complete outsider.” “I can't accept that, as long as I don't know the reason for your involvement with him.” “It's a private matter of no importance.” “I have the impression that you have a strong reason ...
... become necessary . . . " “He's a complete outsider.” “I can't accept that, as long as I don't know the reason for your involvement with him.” “It's a private matter of no importance.” “I have the impression that you have a strong reason ...
Pagina 40
... become inaccessible? How can one tell what is hiding be. hind there, or lying fossilized in the rocks? The interrogation continues. More cautiously now, with mounting suspicion — and another feeling, too: a disturbing tension. The ...
... become inaccessible? How can one tell what is hiding be. hind there, or lying fossilized in the rocks? The interrogation continues. More cautiously now, with mounting suspicion — and another feeling, too: a disturbing tension. The ...
Pagina 44
... of procedure, he has become more and more convinced that he has earned the right to his second birth as a Roman citizen. Egyptians are considered to be capricious, to be oriented toward Greece, filled with 44 THRESHOLD OF FIRE.
... of procedure, he has become more and more convinced that he has earned the right to his second birth as a Roman citizen. Egyptians are considered to be capricious, to be oriented toward Greece, filled with 44 THRESHOLD OF FIRE.
Pagina 55
... becomes aware that old age is approaching. An experienced man who understands people, who has earned his insights through sorrow and bitterness; a pious man whose passion for justice makes him incapable of charity . . . On the evening ...
... becomes aware that old age is approaching. An experienced man who understands people, who has earned his insights through sorrow and bitterness; a pious man whose passion for justice makes him incapable of charity . . . On the evening ...
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Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
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