桑頓•懷爾德（Thornton Wilder，1897-1975），美國小說傢、劇作傢，其作品探討瞭人類體驗的普遍性和宇宙維度之間的聯係。他憑小說《聖路易斯雷大橋》榮獲瞭普利策小說奬，另憑《我們的小鎮》《九死一生》兩獲普利策戲劇奬。懷爾德是一位多纔多藝的藝術傢，他同時也是一名成功的改編者和譯者、歌劇作傢、演員、教師、編劇，他的作品在今天依然廣受閱讀並被搬上銀幕。

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Drawing on such unique sources as Thornton Wilder's unpublished letters, journals, and selections from the extensive annotations Wilder made years later in the margins of the book, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this internationally acclaimed novel.

The Ides of March, first published in 1948, is a brilliant epistolary novel set in Julius Caesar's Rome. Thornton Wilder called it "a fantasia on certain events and persons of the last days of the Roman republic." Through vividly imagined letters and documents, Wilder brings to life a dramatic period of world history and one of history's most magnetic, elusive personalities.

In this inventive narrative, the Caesar of history becomes Caesar the human being. Wilder also resurrects the controversial figures surrounding Caesar -- Cleopatra, Catullus, Cicero, and others. All Rome comes crowding through these pages -- the Rome of villas and slums, beautiful women and brawling youths, spies and assassins.