Robert Graves - I Claudius/Claudius The God - 1994

I, Claudius (1994) and Claudius the God (1995)

Two Folio Society editions of Robert Graves’ celebrated historical novels recounting the life and reign of the Roman emperor Claudius. Elegantly produced and illustrated in the Society’s characteristic style, these volumes present Graves’s masterful reconstruction of imperial Rome—by turns satirical, dramatic, and psychologically acute—in attractive collector’s format. Together, the pair forms a continuous narrative from Claudius’s unlikely survival under the Julio-Claudian dynasty to his eventual accession and rule, widely regarded as one of the finest achievements in twentieth-century historical fiction.