Augustus
John Williams
NYRB Classics
<p>WINNER OF THE 1973 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD <br />
By the Author of <em>Stoner</em>  </p>
<p>In <em>Augustus</em> , his third great novel, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical narrative set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire. To tell the story, Williams turned to the epistolary novel, a genre that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in <em>Butcher’s Crossing</em> and the campus novel in <em>Stoner</em>. <em>Augustus</em> is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master. </p>