{"product_id":"i-am-barbarian-created-by-edgar-rice-burroughs-signed","title":"I AM A BARBARIAN Created by Edgar Rice Burroughs Signed Limited","description":"\u003cp\u003eCustom gold foil-imprinted slipcase. ERB's \"historical fiction\" story set in ancient Rome, written in 1941 but not published until 1967, now adapted into a Sunday Page format. It tells the story of a young man’s courage in the face of cruel adversity, and of his tragic love for a beautiful Belgian slave girl. Britannicus, the defiant son of an arrogant chief in far-off Britain, was just another barbarian to the haughty Romans who captured and enslaved him to become the personal gladiator\/slave of the mad Emperor Caligula.\n\nAmid the decadence of Imperial Rome he faces death time and again, in the gladiatorial arena, in chariot races, in the twisted hearts of palaces, always at the hands of his insane master: Caligula, the most bloodthirsty Roman of them all.\n\nThis first appeared in hardback in 1967 as published by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc. It is one of only two historical novels Burroughs wrote. The other is \u003cem\u003eThe Outlaw of Torn.\u003c\/em\u003e\n\nThe story is a free translation of the memoirs of Britannicus, 25 years the slave of Caligula, emperor of Rome from AD 37 to 41 who is historically known for being insane. It treats a number of different supposed facets of Caligula's life, including his popular early acts as emperor and his descent into madness. Britannicus watches as Caligula begins falsely accusing, fining and even killing individuals for the purpose of seizing their estates during a financial crisis caused by his own wasteful spending. He even begins auctioning the lives of the gladiators at shows. The novel also includes the famous story that once, at some games at which he was presiding, he ordered his guards to throw an entire section of the crowd into the arena during intermission to be eaten by animals because there were no criminals to be prosecuted and he was bored.\n\n\u003cem\u003eI Am A Barbarian\u003c\/em\u003e is the first printed graphic novel collecting one of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc.’s extensive number of online comic strips. The second was the just-published \u003cem\u003eTarzan: The New Adventures, \u003c\/em\u003ewhich we also handle.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cedar Run Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59640392384798,"sku":"IAMBAD","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/iambad-i-am-a-barbarian-erb-signed-book.jpg?v=1784496601","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/i-am-barbarian-created-by-edgar-rice-burroughs-signed","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}