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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 5357136, member: 110350&quot;]I haven&#039;t read the Walter Pater book, but I concur in your recommendation of the others. </p><p><br /></p><p>I would suggest trying to read the Saylor novels in order, not for any reasons of plot but because I think the most recent ones aren&#039;t quite as good.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another recommendation along the same lines as Graves and Vidal: <i>Augustus</i>, by John Williams, which won the National Book Award the year it came out. See <a href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/augustus?variant=1094929261" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.nyrb.com/products/augustus?variant=1094929261" rel="nofollow">https://www.nyrb.com/products/augustus?variant=1094929261</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Memoirs of Hadrian</i> is not a book for someone who wants a lot of &quot;action,&quot; but I still thought it was excellent. Yourcenar is indeed largely forgotten in the USA, but of course is still quite famous in France. I was always curious about Yourcenar, because my mother was her student at Sarah Lawrence, and became friends with her. I have a couple of letters she wrote to my mother.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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