Julian

A beautifully persuasive historical tale, a poignant portrait of the Emperor Julian * Harold Bloom *
High entertainment * New York Times Book Review *
Simply great... A truly monumental novel * Associated Press *
Historical fiction in the true, honorable sense... Full of vivid, richly wrought fictional detail * Wall Street Journal *
Impressive. . . . To the formidable task which Vidal sets himself, he brings an easy and fluent gift for narrative; a theatrical sense of scene and dramatic occasion; and a revealing eye and ear for character delineation-to say nothing of wide reading * Newsweek *
A real hero... An excellent book * Chicago Daily News *
Gore Vidal has the sharpest sense of what political power consists of, how it is achieved and what it does to a man. And at the same time he is funny, roaringly funny. . . . Julian is a brilliant beacon of light in the dim grey landscape of the historical novel * Louis Auchincloss *
A brilliant study of Julian's era. . . . That rare historical novel which enjoys all the virtues of good history and good fiction * Washington Star *
No odder figure ever guided the destinies of the Roman Empire than the Emperor Julian Augustus. Here was a recluse and a scholar who became a great military leader, an ascetic who preached the life of the senses, a fatalist who believed he would remake the world. . . . He is endlessly fascinating * Time *