- History, Gordianus the Finder (Fictitious character), Historical fiction, Fiction
Gordianus the Finder is hired by the young Cicero to acquit or convict a man accused of murdering his own father.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Steven Saylor
- First published
- 1991
- Pages
- 392
- Publisher
- BOOKET, Blackstone Audio, Inc., St. Martin's Minotaur
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English, Spanish, French
- ISBN
- 9781849016056
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“THE slave who came to fetch me on that unseasonably warm spring morning was a young man, hardly more than twenty.”
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