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I, Claudius
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  • Published: 31 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188591
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $30.00

I, Claudius

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31 Aug 2006
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31 Aug 2006
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6 Jan 2011
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First time published individually in Modern Classics, alongside CLAUDIUS THE GOD

Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, Claudius he watches from the sidelines to record the reigns of its emperors: from the wise Augustus and his villainous wife Livia to the sadistic Tiberius and the insane excesses of Caligula. Written in the form of Claudius' autobiography, this is the first part of Robert Graves's brilliant account of the madness and debauchery of ancient Rome, and stands as one of the most celebrated, gripping historical novels ever written.
  • Published: 31 August 2006
  • ISBN: 9780141188591
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $30.00
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About the author

Robert Graves

ROBERT GRAVES (1895–1985) was a preeminent English poet, novelist, critic, translator, and scholar of classical mythology. He served in World War I—an experience recounted in his 1929 autobiography, Good-Bye to All That —and later became the first professor of English literature at the University of Cairo. Best remembered today for his acclaimed historical novels about the Roman emperor Claudius, I, Claudius and Claudius the God, his other books include Count Belisarius, Lawrence and the Arabs, They Hanged My Saintly Billy, Homer's Daughter, The Golden Fleece, The Siege and Fall of Troy, Ann at Highwood Hall, The White Goddess, The Hebrew Myths, and Collected Poems. He is also the co-author of The Reader Over Your Shoulder: A Handbook for Writers of English Prose.
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Lawrence and the Arabs
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Goodbye To All That: Popular Penguins
The Anger of Achilles
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Praise for I, Claudius

I, CLAUDIUS and CLAUDIUS THE GOD are an imaginative and hugely readable account of the early decades of the Roman Empire ... racy, inventive, often comic

Daily Telegraph

One of the really remarkable books of our day, a novel of learning and imagination, fortunately conceived and brilliantly executed

New York Times

Still an acknowledged masterpiece and a model for historical fiction ... sympathetic and intensely involving: a great feat of imagination

Hilary Mantel