# The Glory of the Empire

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- Book: [The Glory of the Empire](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-dormesson/the-glory-of-the-empire) ([The Glory of the Empire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-dormesson/the-glory-of-the-empire.md))
- Authors: [Jean d'Ormesson](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-dormesson), [Daniel Mendelsohn](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-mendelsohn), [Barbara Bray](https://www.bookquiver.com/barbara-bray)
- Publisher: nyrb_classics
- ISBN: 978-15-9017-965-9
- Pages: 432
- Published: 2016-05-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Glory of the Empire is the rich and absorbing history of an extraordinary empire, at one point a rival to Rome. Rulers such as Basil the Great of Onessa, who founded the Empire but whose treacherous...