I Am a Barbarian

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441358071
• ISBN13: 9780441358076
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not Tarzan at the Circus Maximus

Good historical fiction from an unexpected source. Burroughs' treatment of Caligula and the emperor's barbarian slave is excellent. I rather expected a Lord Greystoke in Africa adventure and found instead a refreshing take on imperial Rome, told from the point of view of a slave captured early in life and owned thereafter by Caligula. Tiberius is painted rather favorably when compared to most historical fiction devoted to the period, especially that written after the second deification of Claudius by Robert Graves. Many aspects of Roman life are given breath in this book, which is well written and enjoyable.

First-rate ERB Adventure

Burroughs' research and plot are both excellent in this adventure set in the Roman Empire during the reign of the mad emperor Caligula. Robert E. Howard fans will enjoy this as much as ERB diehards.

The life of Britannicus Caligulae Servus

This is the fictional autobiography of Britannicus Caligulae Servus, a rare treasure pulled out of the Burroughs vault. Britannicus, the slave of the mad Roman emperor Caligula, goes through many exiting adventures as he grows more and more weary of his overlords. It is an example one of Burroughs' only bittersweet endings, but it is a remarkable tradegy by the Master of Adventure which no ERB reader should miss. It's too bad it's currently out of print.