Asterix: Asterix in Switzerland by Rene Goscinny - ISBN: 9780752866345
Hardcover
Asterix and Obelix brave Switzerland for a life-saving antidote!

Asterix: Asterix in Switzerland

Album 16

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  • Hardcover

    48 pages

  • Release Date

    30 November 2004

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Summary

Quaestor Vexatius Sinustitis, who is about to expose the Roman governor’s creative accountancy, has been poisoned. Can Getafix brew an antidote? Only if Asterix and Obelix find a certain flower for the druid’s potion in Helvetia. What with bank safes, cuckoo hourglasses, yodelling and holes in the cheese, they’re soon on a real Helvetian roll.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780752866345
ISBN-10:0752866346
Author:Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Orion Children's Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:48
Release Date:30 November 2004
Weight:460g
Dimensions:292mm x 219mm x 11mm
Series:Asterix
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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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