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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Pagina 22
... faces and cold eyes . Then - a long look at the other three . - None of them seems like a complete stranger to him . His eyes come to rest on the last man in the row , whose face is averted : a beard , a frayed toga a strange bird among ...
... faces and cold eyes . Then - a long look at the other three . - None of them seems like a complete stranger to him . His eyes come to rest on the last man in the row , whose face is averted : a beard , a frayed toga a strange bird among ...
Pagina 157
... face , smashing it to pieces . “ Now you won the argument , " he said to me . " He won't irritate you any more . " The crowd appeared to have been waiting for a signal of this kind : all sorts of trash - clumps of mud , half - eaten ...
... face , smashing it to pieces . “ Now you won the argument , " he said to me . " He won't irritate you any more . " The crowd appeared to have been waiting for a signal of this kind : all sorts of trash - clumps of mud , half - eaten ...
Pagina 186
... face resembled the face that I recognized in horror many years later , in the bloody debris nailed to the Aurelian wall . like At the time I heard some worshippers of the gods say that in perpetrating that shameless theft , she had ...
... face resembled the face that I recognized in horror many years later , in the bloody debris nailed to the Aurelian wall . like At the time I heard some worshippers of the gods say that in perpetrating that shameless theft , she had ...
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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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