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Caligula
by Douglas Jackson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A hint of age-toning to the top edge of the text block.
- ISBN 10
- 0593060601
- ISBN 13
- 9780593060605
- Seller
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Peasedown St. John, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland & Johannesburg: Bantam Press, 2008. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A hint of age-toning to the top edge of the text block. . First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with white titling to the spine) Physically 9½” x 6¼” (1 kg); 328pp; Cover art by Larry Rostant; ISBN: 978-0-5930-6060-5 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #188113|| Condition:
Synopsis
A major new historical epic - in the tradition of Conn Iggulden...Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness. His reign was marked by excess, huge building projects, the largest gladiatorial battles Rome was ever to see – men and animals killed in their hundreds – conspiracies, assassination attempts and sexual scandal. Rufus as a young slave grows up far from the corruption of the imperial court. His master is a trainer of animals for the gladiatorial arena. Rufus discovers that he has a natural ability with animals, a talent for controlling and schooling them. It is at the arenas that Rufus meets his great friend Cupido, one of Rome's greatest gladiators.It is his growing reputation as an animal trainer and his friendship with Cupido that attracts the cruel gaze of the Emperor. Caligula wants a keeper for the imperial elephant and Rufus is bought from his master and taken to the imperial palace. Life here is dictated by Caligula's ever shifting moods. Caligula is as generous as he is cruel, he is a megalomaniac who declares himself a living god and simultaneously lives in constant fear of the plots against his life. But his paranoia is not misplaced, intrigue permeates his court, and Rufus and Cupido find themselves unwittingly placed at the centre of a conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor.
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Details
- Bookseller
- BookLovers of Bath
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 188113
- Title
- Caligula
- Author
- Douglas Jackson
- Format/Binding
- Hardback in Dust Wrapper.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. A hint of age-toning to the top edge of the text block.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0593060601
- ISBN 13
- 9780593060605
- Publisher
- London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland & Johannesburg: Bantam Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- caligula, roman emperors, rome fiction, roman fiction, elephant trainers rome, gladiators fiction, historical fiction, first edition books, books by douglas jackson, larry rostant, 978-0-5930-6060-5
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BookLovers of Bath is set in the pastoral idyll of Peasedown St. John in Somerset (God's Own Country) in the south west of England. My wife and I owned the village Post Office until the modern world caught up with us in 2014. At that point I converted the premises to a small book shop, Fact or Fable, with a stock of around 4,000 titles in stock. I've been selling books worldwide since 1997 and rather hope to get the hang of it shortly…
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