The Ides of March

"The Ids of March" is the best of Wilder’s works. Before us appear Caesar and Cleopatra, Catullus and his beloved Clodia Pulchra, and other participants in the events preceding Caesar’s tragic death. 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 an instrument of Fate…