{"product_id":"julian-9780375727061","title":"Julian","description":"The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, \u003cb\u003eJulian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eis widely regarded as one of Gore Vidal's finest historical novels. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulian the Apostate, nephew of Constantine the Great, was one of the brightest yet briefest lights in the history of the Roman Empire. A military genius on the level of Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great, a graceful and persuasive essayist, and a philosopher devoted to worshipping the gods of Hellenism, he became embroiled in a fierce intellectual war with Christianity that provoked his murder at the age of thirty-two, only four years into his brilliantly humane and compassionate reign. A marvelously imaginative and insightful novel of classical antiquity, \u003cb\u003eJulian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ecaptures the religious and political ferment of a desperate age and restores with blazing wit and vigor the legacy of an impassioned ruler.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGore Vidal was born in 1925 at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His first novel, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eWilliwaw\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003ewritten when he was nineteen years old and serving in the Army, appeared in the spring of 1946. Since then he has written twenty-three novels, five plays, many screenplays, short stories, well over two hundred essays, and a memoir.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543623799058,"sku":"9780375727061","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f11c2c88-8077-4957-ac5a-92b031906350.jpg?v=1731512312","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/julian-9780375727061","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}