Ides of March

"Ides of March" is the best of Wilder's works. We are presented with Caesar and Cleopatra, Catullus and his beloved Clodia Pulchra, and other participants in the events leading up to Caesar's tragic demise. But above all, this is a novel about two driving forces of human life – passion and fate. After all, passion is always obsession, and obsession is the instrument of fate…