This novel's narrator notes that it could only be written "when my harvests are in" and plans to "serve theentire human race" for so long as it "is not reduced to a single head destined for the axe." This novel's titlecharacter aspires to "seduce everyone and everything, even history herself," much 
This novel's narrator notes that it could only be written "when my harvests are in" and plans to "serve theentire human race" for so long as it "is not reduced to a single head destined for the axe." This novel's titlecharacter aspires to "seduce everyone and everything, even history herself," much like his idol Alcibiades,and laments the "mistreatment" of the twelve Caesars by Suetonius. This novel was largely responsible forits author becoming the first woman to join the Academie Francaise. This epistolary novel is addressed to"Mark," and addresses such topics as the title character's love for Antinous, marriage to Sabina, andconstruction of a defensive wall. For 10 points, identify this novel, purporting to be a letter on statecraftwritten to Marcus Aurelius by a prior Roman emperor, the most widely read book by MargueriteYourcenar.
This novel's narrator notes that it could only be written "when my harvests are in" and plans to "serve theentire human race" for so long as it "is not reduced to a single head destined for the axe.
 Memoirs of Hadrian [or MÃ©moires d'Hadrien]