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The Young Carthaginian Paperback – January 29, 2010

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Paperback: 252 pages
Publisher: HardPress Publishing (January 29, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781407630229
ISBN-13: 978-1407630229
ASIN: 1407630229
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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Fun, informative, and lively Victorian historical novel

May 19, 2007

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Henty, that scarily prolific writer of historical "boy's books," is splendidly fun reading and may be quite different from your expectations. Though this novel begins rather poorly, with various tortured exposition-heavy conversations and stilted dialogue, it improves rapidly and actually gets quite suspenseful in its last third.

A "story of the times of Hannibal" but not the story of Hannibal, the novel follows the first three major battles--all victories--of the Second Punic War: the Trebia, Lake Trasimene, and Cannae. Although Hannibal is a character and appears in several scenes, the novel centers around the "young Carthaginian" Malchus, a cousin of Hannibal serving as a captain in his army. Malchus ships out with his fellows who believe in Hannibal's fight against Rome (contrasted with the self-serving, pacifist and greedy policy of Hanno "the Great," a powerful statesman in Carthage) and demonstrates his courage and ability in a variety of actions, including the three battles above but also the siege of Saguntum, a Rome-allied city in Spain, and the perilous crossing of the Alps. In what is perhaps the book's best episode, Malchus is sent back to Carthage by Hannibal to plead for reinforcements so that Rome may be conquered, and falls into a web of suspicion and betrayal, seriously compromising his faith in his homeland. Eventually Malchus will also visit Rome, allowing the novel to contrast the dynamic and vital Rome of republican years with the leisure loving, flabby and deluded Carthage.

Henty weaves his history with his fiction in a relatively odd manner, usually relating the details of an event up front in a solid chunk of historical reporting, then back-tracking to detail Malchus' involvement within the event. This may prove too distracting to readers looking for a well-rounded novelistic treatment of the times (as might be found in Robert Graves, for instance), but it succeeds perfectly in achieving what Henty set out to achieve: namely, interesting young readers in history by making it seem real and exciting.

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Thomas J. Bittner

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January 27, 2016

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Thank you.

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jenn

Great history lesson

November 30, 2012

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My 12 year old son read this for his Roman History class and thoroughly enjoyed it. I personally read only the first two chapters but hope to find the time to read more.

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Charles E. Richards

Great way to Understand some History

October 2, 2010

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Recommend Henty for a good way of getting a history lesson, also a good way to help your children if you'd care to read to them.
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Jason Kleinerman

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July 10, 2013

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Not bad and its a nice emersion into the history but the repeated captures and escapes get a bit monotonous.

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Nox Helios

Fun mix of history and fiction

April 4, 2010

As someone who has an appetite for anything on the Punic Wars, I was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this book as much as I did.

Pros:
-great edition. Love the physical book.
-he succeeds in creating a voice for Hannibal, and memorable supporting characters and plot
-the history comes through, and the fiction feels true to the spirit of what we can't actually be sure of

Cons:
-Beginning needs some work--feels very amateurish with rhapsodic descriptions and overwrought prose
-Henty actually comes out from behind the curtain several times and draws historical parallels to events subsequent in history. While interesting, it's totally out of place and breaks the perspective.
-The political commentary he works into the voice of several characters is facile, and ends up being a distraction more than anything

Very glad I read it.

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John Knight

Historical Fiction from a Very Different Time

December 1, 2001

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G.A. Henty was a Victorian gentleman who wrote historical fiction for young people. I learned of him in reading Arthur Schlesinger's autobiography "A Life in the Twentieth Century". Schlesinger credits Henty with awakening an interst in history that was to last a lifetime. I see why. Henty's approach is to imagine a young lad and thrust him into interesting historical periods. The young man possessed of courage, pluck, honesty and compassion finds these attributes necessary to his success in the novel. Much like the Horatio Alger novels of a somewhat later American time, Henty was also conciously teaching the manly virtues. In "The Young Cathaginian" Henty pulls off a slick trick. Our young hero Malchus is a relative of Hannibal the great Cartaginian general who dared to cross the Alps to attack Carthage's great rival, Rome. While Henty admires Hannibal and presents Malchus as virtually flawless, it is clear that Carthage was a corrupt entity and that her deserved defeat was crucial to the growth of Western civilization. This is not a dry history, merely laden with moral overlays. It is also good fun. There is a lion hunt in Africa. A wolf hunt in the Spanish mountains. Escapes through the underground reserviors of Carthage. And countless vivid battles. And a charming little romance. I am glad I stumbled across the Henty output. Sclesinger is right: Henty makes history fun!

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A great introduction to ancient history

March 19, 2001

Format: Library Binding

The Young Carthaginian deserves more than five stars. The adventures of Malchus, a young Carthaginian noble through the streets of Carthage, rugged mountain ridges, the thick forests of Sardinia, and finally, Rome, keep us on the edge of our seats until the end of the book. It is like an adventure novel more than a history novel, but when we finish the book, we realize that we have learned a lot about the wars between Carthage and Rome without taking the usual pains we have as we use monotonous books.

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