This book besides being an excellent tale of adventure, possesses a truly 'Defoesque' quality of circumstantial narration which makes Imperial Rome live again, even to the most unimaginative readers.
Lew Wallace, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Henryk Sienkiewicz, George J. Whyte-Melville, Henry William Herbert, Frederick Rolfe, Georg Ebers, G. A. Henty, Edward Lucas White, J. G. Lockhart, H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins, Harold MacGrath, Walter Pater, Ernst Eckstein, Felix Dahn, Alfred J. Church, James De Mille, William Henry Giles Kingston, John W. Graham, William Stearns Davis, Gustave Flaubert, Irving Bacheller, Nathan Gallizier & Talbot Mundy
Henryk Sienkiewicz, Felix Dahn, George J. Whyte-Melville, Lew Wallace, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Henry William Herbert, Frederick Rolfe, Georg Ebers, G. A. Henty, Edward Lucas White, J. G. Lockhart, H. Rider Haggard, Wilkie Collins, Harold MacGrath, Walter Pater, Ernst Eckstein, Alfred J. Church, James De Mille, William Henry Giles Kingston, John W. Graham, William Stearns Davis, Gustave Flaubert, Irving Bacheller, Nathan Gallizier & Talbot Mundy