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Description edit
In the great cities of a dying empire and on the battlefields of Roman legions, Thorn, an abandoned waif, witnesses human beings at their most brutal and their most noble. Reprint. NYT.
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Characters/People edit
- Thorn: Main character, a 'mannamavi' or man-maiden. Hermaphrodite.
- Theoderic the Great: Add a description of this character.
- Wyrd: Grumpy old woodsman. Father figure to Thorn.
First Sentence edit
Read these runes! They were inscribed by Thorn the Mannamavi, and at no master's dictation, but in Thorn's own words.
Table of Contents edit
In the Ring of Balsam
Chapters 1-7
Wyrd
Chapters 1-9
At the Lake Brigantinus
Chapters 1-6
The Place of Echoes
Chapters 1-4
Bindobona
Chapters 1-6
Among the Goths
Chapters 1-7
Constantinople
Chapters 1-4
Strabo
Chapters 1-6
Quest
Chapters 1-14
Conquest
Chapters 1-10
The Gothic Kingdom
Chapters 1-11
Acknowledgments
Authors & Contributors edit
- Gary Jennings (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing Group, Inc.
Country: U.S.
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-385-24632-3
Page Count: 980
Publisher: Doubleday Publishing Group, Inc.
Country: U.S.
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-385-24632-3
Page Count: 980
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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