Marguerite Yourcenar

Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally, as emperor, his …

The story of the fate of two cousins in sixteenth century northern France. The younger, sixteen-year-old Henry Maximilian, has set out to become a soldier and a poet. The elder, twenty-two-year-old Zeno, has left the seminary to make himself an alchemist-philosopher.

Orijentalne priče je zbirka novela francusko-američke spisateljice Marguerite Yourcenar objavljena 1938., a proširena 1978. godine. Zbirka se sastoji od deset novela koje su bile objavljivane zasebno u književnim časopisima te zatim spojene u zbirku. U Hrvatskoj je Orijentalne Priče s francuskog preveo Živan Filippi …

Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love …