The Cicero Trilogy

Robert Harris

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Hutchinson
14 December 2021

Fiction & Literature; Historical fiction

All three novels of the acclaimed Cicero Trilogy brought together in one volume, with a new introduction from the author.

'One of the great triumphs of contemporary historical literature.' The Times

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

'Laws are silent in times of war.' Cicero

One of the great epics of political and historical fiction, The Cicero Trilogy charts the career of the Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero from his mid-twenties as an ambitious young lawyer to his dramatic death more than thirty years later, pursued by an assassination squad on a cliff-top path.

The extraordinary life that unfolds between these two episodes is recounted by Cicero's private secretary, Tiro- the law cases and the speeches that made his master's name; the elections and conspiracies he fought; the rivals who contended for power around him - Pompey, Crassus, Cato, Clodius, Catalina, and, most menacingly, Caesar; and, at the heart of it all, the complex personality of Cicero himself - brilliant, cunning, duplicitous, anxious, brave, and always intensely humane.

More than ten years in the writing, and now published in a single volume for the first time, The Cicero Trilogy brings the world of the Roman republic vividly to life. Here is its grandeur, ambition and corruption; and here is its tumultuous collapse into dictatorship and anarchy - a story of the fragility of democratic institutions that holds a warning for our own time.

By: Robert Harris
Imprint: Hutchinson
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 60mm
Weight: 1.231kg
ISBN: 9781786332929
ISBN 10: 1786332922
Pages: 992
Publication Date: 14 December 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robert Harris is the author of fourteen bestselling novels- the Cicero Trilogy - Imperium, Lustrum and Dictator - Fatherland, Enigma, Archangel, Pompeii, The Ghost, The Fear Index, An Officer and a Spy, which won four prizes including the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, Conclave, Munich, The Second Sleep and V2. Several of his books have been filmed, including The Ghost, which was directed by Roman Polanski. His work has been translated into forty languages and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in West Berkshire with his wife, Gill Hornby.