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050	0	0	_aPR6058.A69147 _bI47 2006
082	0	0	_aFIC HAR
100	1		_aHarris, Robert
245	1	0	_aImperium _b: a novel of ancient Rome _c/ Robert Harris
260			_aNew York _b: Simon & Schuster _c, 2006
300			_a305 p. _b: illus. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aWhen Tiro, the confidential secretary (and slave) of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events that will eventually propel his master into one of the most suspenseful courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. The senator is Marcus Cicero -- an ambitious young lawyer and spellbinding orator, who at the age of twenty-seven is determined to attain "imperium" -- supreme power in the state. Of all the great figures of the Roman world, none was more fascinating or charismatic than Cicero. And Tiro -- the inventor of shorthand and author of numerous books, including a celebrated biography of his master (which was lost in the Dark Ages) -- was always by his side. Compellingly written in Tiro's voice, "Imperium" is the re-creation of his vanished masterpiece, recounting in vivid detail the story of Cicero's quest for glory, competing with some of the most powerful and intimidating figures of his -- or any other -- age: Pompey, Caesar, Crassus, and the many other powerful Romans who changed history.
600	1	0	_aTiro, M. Tullius _d, 103 B.C. or 104 B.C. _v--Fiction
600	1	0	_aCicero, Marcus Tullius
651			_aRome _x-History _y-Republic, 265-30 B.C. _v--Fiction
655		7	_aHistorical fiction
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