Confessors of the Name

Author: Schmitt, Gladys

Publication:New York : The Dial Press, 1952

Binding: Hardcover

Edition:

Condition: Used: Good

Description: No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. some sunning/soiling to spine cloth, edge wear to boards, bit of soiling to page ends; The reign of the Emperor Decius (250 A.D.) was a time which the great English historian Toynbee likens to our own - "a time of troubles." Troubles there were - Goths descending upon the Empire from the northern forests, Christians setting up a state within a state, and appalling corruption and chaos on every level, from the senators to the slaves. It is with Favorinus Herennius that the reader is taken through all the levels of Roman society in this year of decision. It begins in the fabulously wealthy family of the Herennii, where the young man - charming, intelligent, handsome -seeks and fails to find the meaning of life, and turns his back on a mother whose sole interest is money and prestige and on a sister Drusilla, who can think of nothing but the wreck of what her friends call "the worst marriage in Rome." Nor can he find the significance he seeks in the circle of artists and intellects gathered around his Greek mistress Charis.

Ref#: 059525

Subject: General Fiction

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