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Augustus

Allan Massie

Augustus was the founder of the Roman Empire, adopted son of Julius Caesar, friend and later foe of Mark Antony, patron of Horace and Virgil. Frank and forceful, this putative autobiography tells his story from the assassination of Caesar, through his military, political and personal struggles to his final days as Emperor in everything but name.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JAN 1, 2007
  • Imprint : Sceptre
  • Page Extent : 384
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780340936351
  • Price : INR 575
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Allan Massie

Allan Massie is the author of eighteen highly praised novels as well as non-fiction works on Muriel Spark a study of twelve emperors of ancient Rome a history of crime in 19th-century Edinburgh and the acclaimed Glasgow: Portraits of a City. Born in Singapore in 1938 he was brought up in Aberdeenshire and educated at Glenalmond School and Trinity College Cambridge where he read history. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has been a judge of the Booker Prize. He is also a journalist contributing to the Scottish and English press. He is married has three children and lives in the Scottish Borders.

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