- Fiction, History, Juvenile fiction, Children's stories
A young boy in pre-Roman England becomes chieftain of his tribe and learns just how much he must sacrifice for his people.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Rosemary Sutcliff
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 111
- Publisher
- Bodley Head, Red Fox, Knight
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9780333283103
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