The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
Unabridged Audiobook
Written By: M. T. Anderson
Narrated By: Peter James
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Date: January 2007
Duration: 8 hours 21 minutes
Summary:
He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the best of classical educations. Raised by a mysterious group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother-a princess in exile from a faraway land-are the only people in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments-and his own chilling role in them.
