Asterix: Asterix and The Chieftain's Shield by Rene Goscinny - ISBN: 9780752866246
Hardcover
Gauls, Romans, and a health farm: who finds the shield first?

Asterix: Asterix and The Chieftain's Shield

Album 11

$30.61

  • Hardcover

    48 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2004

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Summary

When the hero Vercingetorix was defeated, he threw his arms at Julius Caesar’s feet. Years later, Caesar plans to hold a triumph with his enemy’s shield - but where is it? Romans and Gauls race to track it down, and Chief Vitalstatistix, dieting on a health farm, has a surprise to spring. Will Caesar defeat the Gauls again, or will the triumph go to Asterix?

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780752866246
ISBN-10:0752866249
Author:Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orion Children's Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:48
Release Date:30 September 2004
Weight:450g
Dimensions:295mm x 221mm x 13mm
Series:Asterix
What They're Saying

Critics Review

A cartoon drawn with such supreme artistry, and a text layered with such glorious wordplay, satire and historical and political allusion that no reader should ever feel like they’ve outgrown it.–TIME OUTThe Asterix books represent the very summit of our achievement as a literary race. In Asterix one finds all of human life. The fact that the books were written originally in French is no matter. I have read them all in many languages and, like all great literature, they are best in English. Anthea Bell and Derek Hockridge, Asterix’s translators since the very beginning, have made great books into eternal flames.–THE TIMES

About The Author

Rene Goscinny

Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977.

Albert Uderzo was born in 1927 in a small village in Marne, France. He met Rene Goscinny in 1951 and on 29 October 1959 their most famous creation, Asterix, made his first appearance on page 20 of Pilote. ASTERIX THE GAUL, their first album, was published in 1961 and there have now been 34 Asterix albums.

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