Threshold Of Fire: A Novel of Fifth-Century Rome by Haasse, Hella S

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Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1996. Paperback. Very Good +. Originally published as Een Nieuwer Testament in 1964. A novel set in 414 AD, when the Roman Empire is in its death throes. The uncertainty of life at the Emperor's court is reflected in the drama which enfolds the powerful Prefect Hadrian; a Christian convert; Marcus Anicius, the pagan aristocrat; and the Jew, Eliezar ben Elijah."The cusps of the past are further explored in another of the prolific Haasse's historical sagas -- a 1964 novel newly translated from the Dutch in which the clash of religions and codes of honor comes vividly to the fore in Christianized fifth-century Rome. Hadrian, haughty Prefect of Rome and a Christian zealot but acutely aware of the taint of his Egyptian heritage in higher circles of ethnically pure Romans, finds himself on the horns of a dilemma when forced to decide the fate of a man brought before him for conducting forbidden pagan practices. The man is familiar, although his name is not, but when… Read More

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