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Blurb: “
EMIL LUDWIG is the author of the finest biography of Napoleon ever written.
He is the author also of one of the most astonishing biographies ever written-the life-story of a river, THE NILE, acclaimed by many as his finest work.
Now he has given us still another kind of biography. He has written his first history of a woman-CLEO-PATRA.
He could not have chosen a subject more worthy of his gifted pen.
While he was studying the story of the Nile he became fascinated with the romantic career of that truly extraordinary queen, whose name has come down the centuries as a symbol of all that is seductive in woman. He became immersed in the enthralling history of the strife between Antony and Octavius, of the former's passion for Cleopatra, of their extraordinary family life and of the heroic and tragic end of two who died as magnificently as they had lived.
This glorious tale, colored with the mystery and magic of the East, takes on new significance in the brilliant telling of this master historian. It presents a stirring panorama of the ancient world and lets us live again in "the grandeur that was Rome."”