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1 online resource (1 audio file (360 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Cicero ; bk. 1 |
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Harris, Robert.
Cicero. Spoken word ; bk. 1
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| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Oliver Ford Davies. |
| Summary |
From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii comes the most provocative and brilliant novel of antiquity since I, Claudius - Imperium a cautionary tale of Cicero, the greatest orator of all time, and his extraordinary struggle for power in Rome. When Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero - an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain imperium - supreme power in the state. Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro - the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages) - was always by his side. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, Imperium is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his - or any other - age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history. Robert Harris, the world's master of innovative historical fiction, lures us into a violent, treacherous world of Roman politics at once exotically different from and yet startlingly similar to our own - a world of Senate intrigue and electoral corruption, special prosecutors and political adventurism - to describe how one clever, compassionate, devious, vulnerable man fought to reach the top. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Tiro, M. Tullius (Marcus Tullius), 104 B.C. or 103 B.C.- -- Fiction.
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius -- Fiction.
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Rome -- History -- Republic, 265-30 B.C. -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Davies, Oliver Ford. Narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780743561839 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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074356183X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11499753 |
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