Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel. The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities. In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar -- Cleopatra, Catullus, Cicero, and others. All Rome comes crowding through these pages -- the Rome of villas and slums, beautiful women and brawling youths, spies and assassins.
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Wilder is on a roll, with several of his titles coming back into print. Heaven's My Destination (1934) offers protagonist George Brush, a traveling salesman attempting to live a virtuous life despite peddling his wares in less than virtuous places. The epistolary Ides of March (1948) retells the tragedy of Julius Caesar through letters among the major players. Both volumes feature new ...
More introductions by J.D. McClatchy and Kurt Vonnegut, respectively, along with scholarly notes and a biographical portrait of Wilder. Jump on 'em.
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a helpful 1948 review of 'the ides of march' ... Clodia Pulchra, widow of Metellus Celer, is a major character in The Ides of March, Thornton Wilder's ...
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It’sa novel I’ve barely mentioned here but I zipped through The Ides of March by Thornton Wilder in the first few days of October. ...
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an omission is particularly regrettable in the case of The Ides of March ...... Rezeption epikureischer Philosophie in The Ides of March and The Eighth Day. ...
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... which must be paid for at the cost of all order in our lives and any tranquility in our minds. Thornton Wilder (1897-1975). "The Ides of March", 1948 ...
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What omens does Casca report on the Ides of March? ... Xena: Warrior Princess - The Ides of March (TV episode) (1999 Fantasy TV Episode); Our Town (play) ...
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Beware the ides of March. (I,ii), Gloria Stuart: Beware the Ides of March; Gertrude M. Reynolds: The Ides of March; Florence Pickard: The Ides of March ...
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 | Rome - Page 94I replied that the women of Rome are free to enter into whatever engagements of this kind they may wish to and I sent her a form of invitation which ...more pages: 28 37 104 106 149 175 218 225 230 237 |
| Naples - Page 98My cousin will be returning here from Naples soon after you receive this. Please send word by him. Postscript: Everybody knows that she killed her ...more pages: 11 58 213 |
| Taos, New Mexico - Page 247or at artist's watering holes such as the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Mabel Dodge Luhan's ranch in Taos, New Mexico. ... |
More | Peterborough, New Hampshire - Page 247or at artist's watering holes such as the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and Mabel Dodge Luhan's ranch in Taos, New Mexico. ... |
| New Haven, Connecticut - Page 247Thornton Wilder was never able to do his own writing in the family house he built in 1930 outside New Haven, Connecticut, from royalties he received ...more pages: 276 |
| Newport, Rhode Island - Page 248By May, after short trips to a couple of favorite writing haunts in Newport, Rhode Island, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, he had completed the first ...more pages: 268 |
| Madison, Wisconsin - Page xiiitime about what a prominent person, albeit the most benign celebrity imaginable, he, the son of a newspaper editor in Madison, Wisconsin, had become. ...more pages: xi |
| Princeton - Page xito study at the American Academy in Rome, to an MA from Princeton, to teach literature at the University of Chicago and then Harvard and elsewhere. ... |
| Athens - Page 8You remember how you and I as boys in Athens, and later before our tents in Gaul, used to turn these things over endlessly. ...more pages: 118 |
| Berkeley, California - Page xiiiOne thing he had already become when only a student in the public high school in yet another university town, Berkeley, California, was a person who ... |
| Indianapolis, Indiana - Page xiiiMy father, the same age, became such a person in a public high school in Indianapolis, Indiana. So did tens of thousands of members of their ... |
| London - Page 259How much happier a chance has fallen than a year in Paris or London or New York. Rome's antiquity, her variety, her significance swallow the others up ...more pages: 258 |
| New York - Page 259How much happier a chance has fallen than a year in Paris or London or New York. Rome's antiquity, her variety, her significance swallow the others up ...more pages: 251 |
| Paris - Page 259How much happier a chance has fallen than a year in Paris or London or New York. Rome's antiquity, her variety, her significance swallow the others up ... |
| Rimini - Page 51The secretary from Crete was heard saying to the secretary from Rimini that maybe the Queen of Egypt is coming to Rome, that's Cleopatra the witch. ... |
| Salerno - Page 131A friend of mine has a villa at Salerno, shielded from the north. You will go there in January and I shall join you. Be patient; occupy yourself. ... |
| Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - Page 248It was on this trip, in November, probably in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, that his priorities changed. He wrote his sister, Isabel: "Just for the ... |
| Berlin - Page 258Despite some success in Berlin with a distinguished German cast in 1962, the play failed in London in 1963 with John Giel- gud as Caesar and Irene ... |
| Atlantic City, New Jersey - Page 248By May, after short trips to a couple of favorite writing haunts in Newport, Rhode Island, and Atlantic City, New Jersey, he had completed the first ... |
| Washington, DC - Page 248On his way home he stopped in Washington, DC, where he spent two weeks in late April and early May at the Library of Congress reading works on the ... |
| New Orleans - Page 248this time with new tires on his car, and aimed the Chrysler for the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, then a month (a boat trip at last! ... |
| Marseilles - Page 206 |
| Pompeia - Page 198Then he rose and said he had no intention of appearing at the trial; that it was possible that Pompeia was not implicated in this matter, ...more pages: xv 18 46 48 138 143 151 192 194 |
References to this bookFrom Google ScholarFrances Cooke Macgregor - 1990 - Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Peter G Christensen - 1995 - Orbis Litterarum Popular passagesfiebant; Quae tu volebas nec puella nolebat. Fulsere vere candidi tibi soles. Nunc iam illa non volt; tu quoque inpotens, noli, Nec quae fugit sectare, nec miser vive; Sed obstinata mente perfer, obdura. Page 102 HISTORICAL reconstruction is not among the primary aims of this work. It may be called a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic. The Page xv All the conspirators took themselves off and left him lying there dead for some time. Finally three common slaves put him on a litter and carried him home, one arm Page 246 I am accustomed to being hated. Already in early youth I discovered that I did not require the good opinion of other men, even of the best, to confirm me in my actions. I think there is only one solitude greater than that of the military commander and of the head of the state and that is the Page 34 illa, Aut, quod non potis est, esse pudica velit; Ipse valere opto et taetrum hunc deponere morbem. O Page 110 paperback) With a new Foreword by Paula Vogel Wilder's Pulitzer Prize—winning (1943) madcap comedy of how the Antrobus family and its maid prevail over successive catastrophes has become a timeless statement about human endurance and hope. . . and the imperishable vitality of theater. “It is not easy to think of any other American play with so good a chance of being acted a hundred years from now. Page 283 Catullus: Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire Et quod vides perisse perditum ducas. Fulsere quondam candidi tibi soles, Cum Page 102 Gloss: Out of man's recognition in fear and awe that there is an Unknowable comes all that is best in the explorations of his mind,—even though that recognition is often misled into Page ix It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person which others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say “thou slave. Page 114 LessContents | 3 | | | | | 68 | | | | | 70 | | | | | 91 | | | | | 96 | | | | | 104 | | | | | 149 | | | | | 180 | | | |
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