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I, Claudius

Robert Graves

Form
Form Historical Novel
Year
Year 1934
Pages
Pages 470

A stammering, limping prince is dismissed as a harmless fool by his poisonous family, and survives one bloody Roman reign after another by playing exactly the idiot they take him for, until the killing finally makes him emperor himself.

known to my friends and relatives and associates as 'Claudius the Idiot', or 'That Claudius', or 'Claudius the Stammerer', or 'Clau-Clau-Claudius'
I, Claudius, Robert Graves

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