Augustus Audiobook

Quotes

• “Out of the events surrounding one of the pivotal moments in Western history…John Williams has fashioned an always engaging, psychologically convincing work of fiction.”

  — New York Times

• “One is drawn deeply into a world whose complexity, luxury, political cynicism, public gullibility, and violence seem very much like our own.”

  — New Yorker

• “Novel or history, this is an excellent book…A superior work of the imagination.”

  — Playboy

• “Augustus is a masterpiece.”

  — Los Angeles Times   

• “Augustus is a vividly imagined re-creation of classical Rome, but its intuitive grasp of the experience of immense power makes it an unusual, and superior, novel.”

  — Boston Globe

• “It would be easy to over-praise this novel; but there does not seem any adequate reason why this temptation should be resisted, especially as Mr. Williams in his turn resists the obvious one of allowing irony too prominent a part in the proceedings.”

  — Economist

• “A novel of extraordinary range, yet of extraordinary minuteness, that manages never to sacrifice one quality for the other.”

  — Financial Times

• “A pleasure to read…A most polished performance.”

  — Boston Herald Traveler

• “Williams has immersed himself in ancient history, its figures, its conflicts, its complicated intrigues, and its often primitive turmoil. In his vivid panorama, the Golden Age sparkles with an eloquence, at times, approaching the poetic.”

  — Plain Dealer

• “Strong and striking…Intelligent and intuitive, this excellent historical novel makes the world of Ancient Rome a place in which we feel instantly at home.” 

  — Publishers Weekly