- Rome, history, fiction, Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Great britain, history, to 1066, fiction
A young centurion ventures among the hostile tribes beyond the Roman Wall to recover the eagle standard of the Ninth, a legion which mysteriously disappeared under his father's command.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- First published
- December 1, 1996
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA, Childrens Classics, Square Fish
- Editions
- 33
- Language
- und, German, Japanese, English
- ISBN
- 9780192750457
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