I, Claudius
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Imperial plot × little guy's counterattack is a cool article! Read the century-old history of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire in one book! How did a stuttering "idiot" rise to the top of power step by step in the palace battles of the Roman Empire? Best-selling for 90 years, it is an undisputed masterpiece of historical fiction! "The Grapes of Wrath" and "East of Eden" are carefully translated by translator Wang Yifan. There is no period in the entire history of the West where rhetoric and metaphor are less needed than in ancient Rome, because the facts themselves are appalling enough. Claudius, a nobleman of the Roman Empire, was considered by his family to be nothing more than a stammering fool, but he quietly survived a series of bloody purges and an increasingly cruel environment. He chronicles the reigns of emperors from an outsider's perspective: from the divine Augustus and his poisonous wife Leigh to the madcap atrocities of the sadistic Tiberius and Caligula. Robert Graves brilliantly describes the crazy and debauched history of the Roman Empire in the form of an autobiography.
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