Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth Century RomeAcademy Chicago Publishers, 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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... dream ... He had found himself on a barren , desolate coast . A rocky precipice , without a trace of vegetation , descended perpendicularly to a narrow gravel beach . The sun did not shine , the sea was grey . The enclosed bay was ...
... dream ... He had found himself on a barren , desolate coast . A rocky precipice , without a trace of vegetation , descended perpendicularly to a narrow gravel beach . The sun did not shine , the sea was grey . The enclosed bay was ...
Pagina 45
... dream , that relief , a raised hand : " I swear . . . " But what , when , how ? Dreams , it is said , are a mixture of memory and premonition ... Is it a residue of paganism to think like this , to attach so much importance to a dream ...
... dream , that relief , a raised hand : " I swear . . . " But what , when , how ? Dreams , it is said , are a mixture of memory and premonition ... Is it a residue of paganism to think like this , to attach so much importance to a dream ...
Pagina 85
... dream , the ship vanished behind the horizon . Whoever abandoned him there had sailed away out of his life , forever . The Prefect has only to close his eyes to stand once more on the marble steps , to hear again the whisper of the ...
... dream , the ship vanished behind the horizon . Whoever abandoned him there had sailed away out of his life , forever . The Prefect has only to close his eyes to stand once more on the marble steps , to hear again the whisper of the ...
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Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
Threshold of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome Hella S. Haasse,Anita Miller,Nini Blinstrub Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
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