Books with title Caesar

Caesar is a tale of survival, love, and loyalty, by a young O’Brian who was rightly hailed, even at fifteen, as the ‘boy-Thoreau’. The fascinating career of the literary genius behind Aubrey-Maturin begins here.‘I dimly felt sorry that I had needlessly killed these two useless things, for though I was hungry I could not bring myself to eat these smelly men.’Written when Patrick O’Brian was just fourteen, this is the enchanting, bloodthirsty story of Caesar – whose father was a giant panda, but his mother a snow leopard. With the dry wit and unsentimental precision O’Brian would come to be loved for, we see the tragedies of Caesar’s childhood, his capture and taming, and finally his rise to fatherhood under the iron rule of human masters.

The past comes to haunt contemporary London in this evocation of the life of the little-known Roman boy-emperor Heliogabalus. The Roman gay world is mirrored in Jim's relations with his duplicitous partner Danny and the contemporary London scene they inhabit. Events take a weird twist when Jim discovers that his partner is living a double life as a member of a Soho cult involving bizarre sex rites on Hampstead Heath. Jim, repulsed by the cult's activities, finds his relationship with Danny at an end and that he has become a target for the leader's reprisals. He is forced to take refuge with a female friend, Masako, with whom he visits Rome to investigate sites associated with Heliogabalus. She leads him to a meeting with a wealthy young man called Antonio who claims to be the emperor reincarnated. When Jim and Masako return to London, Antonio pays them a visit which leads to a conclusion every bit as dramatic as Heliogabalus' own murder. An electrifying poetic recreation of a bizarre period of ancient history, this narrative also dissolves boundaries of gender in the complex relationship of Jim and Masako.

The past comes to haunt contemporary London in this evocation of the life of the little-known Roman boy-emperor Heliogabalus. The Roman gay world is mirrored in Jim's relations with his duplicitous partner Danny and the contemporary London scene they inhabit. Events take a weird twist when Jim discovers that his partner is living a double life as a member of a Soho cult involving bizarre sex rites on Hampstead Heath. Jim, repulsed by the cult's activities, finds his relationship with Danny at an end and that he has become a target for the leader's reprisals. He is forced to take refuge with a female friend, Masako, with whom he visits Rome to investigate sites associated with Heliogabalus. She leads him to a meeting with a wealthy young man called Antonio who claims to be the emperor reincarnated. When Jim and Masako return to London, Antonio pays them a visit which leads to a conclusion every bit as dramatic as Heliogabalus' own murder. An electrifying poetic recreation of a bizarre period of ancient history, this narrative also dissolves boundaries of gender in the complex relationship of Jim and Masako.

With this activity pack, kids can let their imaginations run wild: sample stuffed dormouse at JC's More Than You Can Eat Buffet And Vomitorium...pit themselves against Caesar in a game of power and wealth...decorate themselves with beastly barbarian tattoos...and be thrown to the lions! Kids will have hours of fun and get to know all about the ancient Roman world. And best of all: they'll never know they're learning!

Der erhabene Cäsar hat ein paar sehr skurrile Eigenheiten: zum Beispiel seine Liebe zu einem fürchterlich stinkenden Riesenhund und einem goldenen Klappstuhl, den ihm der kleine Sklave Andrion immer nachtragen muss. Kurz vor einer wichtigen Senatorenversammlung werden Hund und Stuhl gestohlen - das Komplott gegen Cäsar bahnt sich an. Und für Andrion beginnt eine aufregende Jagd durch die Stadt. Schließlich will er nicht als leckerer Appetithappen für die Löwen enden... Wolfgang Will erzählt nicht nur eine spannende Geschichte aus dem alten Rom, sondern junge wie neugierig gebliebene Hörer erfahren auch ganz nebenbei manch Wissenswertes über das Leben in der großen Metropole des Altertums. Und nicht nur das: Man kann - und muss - auch mitraten! So wird man zum Zeugen und Begleiter von Andrion und erlebt mit ihm unerhörte Abenteuer.