Asterix: Asterix and The Banquet
Album 5
$28.24
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2004
Summary
Gaul, now France, has always been famous for its food and drink - so when, for a bet with the Romans, Asterix and Obelix travel round collecting local delicacies they start on the journey home with all sorts of goodies. First, however, they must outwit the thieves Villanus and Unscrupulus. And who’s that little dog who has been following them all the way?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780752866086 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0752866087 |
| Author: | Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Orion Children's Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2004 |
| Weight: | 456g |
| Dimensions: | 11mm x 223mm x 293mm |
| Series: | Asterix |
| Audience Age: | 8-11 |
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Critics Review
Wit, humane insights, and physical antics allow readers to join the fun…has cross-generational appeal.”
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 OUT
The 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
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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