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The emperor's babe / Bernardine Evaristo.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Evaristo Emperor
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--History--Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D--Poetry.
- Great Britain.
- Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, 146-211--Poetry.
- Severus, Lucius Septimius.
- London (England)--History--To 1500--Poetry.
- London (England).
- Sudanese--Great Britain--Poetry.
- Sudanese.
- Romans--Great Britain--Poetry.
- Romans.
- Women--Great Britain--Poetry.
- Women.
- Children of immigrants--Poetry.
- Children of immigrants.
- Severus, Lucius Septimius, Emperor of Rome, 146-211.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Novels in verse.
- History
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 250 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- Bernardine Evaristo's tale of forbidden love in bustling third-century London is an intoxicating cocktail of poetry, history, and fiction. Feisty, precocious Zuleika, a restless teenage bride of a rich Roman businessman, craves passion and excitement. She wanders through his villa, bored, or sneaks out to see her old friends, seeking an outlet for her creativity. Then she begins an affair with the emperor, Septimus Severus, remembered to history as the "African Emperor," and she knows her life will never be the same.
- Notes:
- "A verse novel of Londinium, 211 A.D."--Cover.
- Originally published in Great Britain by Hamish Hamilton in 2001. originally published in the United States by Viking Penguin in 2002.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Sargent fund bookplate.
- Cited in:
- Anim-Addo, Joan. This is the canon, 36
- Other Format:
- Online version: Evaristo, Bernardine, 1959- Emperor's babe.
- ISBN:
- 0142001716
- 9780142001714
- OCLC:
- 54536050
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