Caligula (signed first edition)
Language: English
Published by Bantam Press / Transworld, London, 2008
Series: Book 1 of 2 - Roman Trilogy
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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True (UK) first edition, first printing. DATED 19 JULY 2008, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED (but NOT personalized, "A sword in my hand and/ a friend by my side" ) BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. Fine, fresh, like-new copy in equally fine, bright dust jacket. Hardcover.328 pp. Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence, cruelty and madness. When Rufus, a young slave, and Cupido, one of Rome's greatest gladiators, attract the cruel gaze of the Emperor, the two find themselves unwittingly at the center of a conspiracy to assassinate Caligula. But can a slave decide the fate of an emperor.
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- Title
- Caligula (signed first edition)
- Author
- Douglas Jackson
- Publisher
- Bantam Press / Transworld, London
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0593060601
- ISBN 13
- 9780593060605
- Edition
- First edition.
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: Roman Trilogy
- Seller catalogs
- Historical Fiction
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, the third Roman Emperor, is better known by another name: Caligula, a name synonymous with decadence and cruelty. 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 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 has a natural ability with animals, a talent for controlling and schooling them. It is at the arenas that Rufus meets 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 palace, where life is dictated by Caligula’s ever shifting moods. Caligula is a megalomaniac who declares himself a living god and simultaneously lives in constant fear of 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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