- Murder, Fiction, Romans, nouvelles, Heads of state
*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."
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- Author
- Thornton Wilder
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 246
- Publisher
- Sine nomine, Readers Union, Penguin
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- German, English, Italian, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780140087895
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“I The Master of the College of Augurs to Caius Julius Caesar, Supreme Pontiff and Dictator of the Roman People.”
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel *The Eighth Day*. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder
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