The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Book #1
- By: M.T. Anderson
- Narrated by: Peter Francis James
- Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Description
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.
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Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Series

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party
By: M.T. Anderson
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 8 hours 18 minutes
Abridged: No
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... Read more »
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The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 2: The Kingdom on the Waves
By: M.T. Anderson
Narrated by: Peter Francis James
Length: 13 hours 23 minutes
Abridged: No
Such is our task, and such lies before us all: Liberty or Death.
In the summer of 1775, fleeing from a death sentence, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, escape through rising tides and pouring rain to find shelter in British-occupied Boston. Sundered from all he knows Octavian hopes to find safe harbor. But in the midst of war, no... Read more »