Beric the Briton takes place during the Emperor Nero's reign and follows the adventures of a young Beric who, as a young boy, gets captured by Romans and spends several years being held hostage. During captivity Beric learns Latin language and Roman history, and gets familiar with military tactics which he later uses against the Romans during the Iceni revolt under Queen Boudicca. After the failure of the revolt, Beric becomes the new leader of the Iceni and conducts a guerilla campaign against the Romans. His group is taken down by treason, and Beric again ends up in Roman captivity, where he must fight a lion unarmed and goes through many more perils and adventures in Nero's ancient Rome.
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G. A. Henty. Beric the Briton (Historical Novel)
Beric the Briton (Historical Novel)
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter I: A Hostage
Chapter II: City And Forest
Chapter III: A Wolf Hunt
Chapter IV: An Infuriated People
Chapter V: The Sack Of Camalodunum
Chapter VI: First Successes
Chapter VII: Defeat Of The Britons
Chapter VIII: The Great Swamps
Chapter IX: The Struggle In The Swamp
Chapter X: Betrayed
Chapter XI: A Prisoner
Chapter XII: A School For Gladiators
Chapter XIII: A Christian
Chapter XIV: Rome In Flames
Chapter XV: The Christians To The Lions
Chapter XVI: In Nero's Palace
Chapter XVII: Betrothal
Chapter XVIII: The Outbreak
Chapter XIX: Outlaws
Chapter XX: Mountain Warfare
Chapter XXI: Old Friends
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The scene in Camalodunum was a familiar one to Beric. The streets were thronged with people. Traders from Gaul and Italy, Roman artisans and workmen, haughty legionaries with shield and helmet, civil officials, Greek players, artists and decorators, native tribesmen, with the products of their fields or the spoils of the chase, walking with humble mien; and shopkeepers sitting at the open fronts of their houses, while their slaves called the attention of passersby to the merits of the goods. Here were the rich products of Eastern looms, there the cloths and linen of Rome, further on a smith's shop in full work, beyond that a silversmith's, next door to which was a thriving trader who sold unguents and perfumes, dyes for the ladies' cheeks and pigments for their eyebrows, dainty requisites for the toilette, and perfumed soap. Bakers and butchers, vendors of fish and game, of fruit, of Eastern spices and flavourings abounded.
Druggists and dealers in dyes for clothing and in the pigments used in wall decorations and paintings were also to be found; and, in fact, this Roman capital of a scarcely subjugated country contained all the appliances for luxury and comfort that could be found in the cities of the civilized provinces.
