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Civil War by Lucan
epub |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan [Lucan]

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by David Womersley
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-07-31 | Author:David Womersley [Gibbon, Edward]

[Chapters XLII-XLIX] In these chapters Gibbon’s widening vision encompasses a series of nations on the empire’s eastern and northern frontiers, while at the same time underlining grievous depopulation at the ...
( Category: Historiography April 19,2020 )
The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon
epub |eng | 2006-04-18 | Author:Sei Shonagon

The woman he gazes at in secret is bending forward, so that her hair falls away from her head and hangs perhaps six inches before her face. It glows there ...
( Category: Asia April 19,2020 )
Murder Trials by Cicero
mobi |eng | 2005-10-05 | Author:Cicero

It is pointed out, in an effort to refute me, that Publius Septimius Scaevola, when his penalty was being assessed after conviction on another totally unrelated charge,1 received a severer ...
( Category: Rome April 19,2020 )
Annals (Penguin Classics) by Tacitus
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Tacitus

Book 12 1. (48 CE, continued) Messalina’s killing produced dislocation in the Emperor’s household. A contest arose among the freedmen over who would choose a wife for Claudius, a man ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Civil War (Penguin Classics) by Lucan
azw3 |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Lucan

CORDUS BURIES POMPEY But before the victor reached the sands of Pharos, Fortune granted Pompey a hasty burial, lest he have a better tomb, or none at all. Out of ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
The Conquest of New Spain (Classics) by Bernal Díaz
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Bernal Díaz

The Entrance into Mexico Early next day we left Iztapalapa with a large escort of these great Caciques, and followed the causeway, which is eight yards wide and goes so ...
( Category: Europe April 19,2020 )
The Life of St Teresa of Avila by Herself (Classics) by Avila Teresa of
azw3 |eng | 2004-07-28 | Author:Avila, Teresa of [Avila, Teresa of]

Chapter 24 She continues the same subject and tells how her soul went on improving, once she had begun to obey; also how little use it was for her to ...
( Category: Saints April 19,2020 )
The Book of Margery Kempe (Classics) by Kempe Margery
azw3 |eng | 2005-07-27 | Author:Kempe, Margery [Kempe, Margery]

Chapter 65 Our Lord Jesus Christ said to this creature, ‘Daughter, you shall well see when you are in heaven with me that no man is damned unless he is ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
Mr. Putin by Hill Fiona;Gaddy Clifford G.;Brookings Institution;
epub |eng | | Author:Hill, Fiona;Gaddy, Clifford G.;Brookings Institution;

A NARROW AMERICAN VANTAGE POINT Beyond Henry Kissinger, Putin has had few representative Americans to fall back on if he wants insights into how the United States political system works ...
( Category: Historical April 17,2020 )
Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy by David Starkey
epub |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:David Starkey

( Category: Europe April 16,2020 )
FDR on Democracy by Harvey J. Kaye
epub |eng | 2020-03-24 | Author:Harvey J. Kaye

21. A True Patriotism Urges Us to Build an Even More Substantial America . . . Speech Dedicating a World War Memorial St. Louis, Missouri, October 14, 1936 Speaking at ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents April 16,2020 )
Empire to Nation by Unknown
epub |eng | 2013-07-10 | Author:Unknown

Reforming the Empire The road from the Ottoman imperial kaleidoscope to the rigidly defined world of the successor nation-states was a long one. The first part of this process goes ...
( Category: History & Criticism April 16,2020 )
Amore and Amaretti - A Tale of Love and Food in Italy by Victoria Cosford
epub |eng | 2010-12-24 | Author:Victoria Cosford

All through the afternoon and the evening, and until it becomes dark, we eat and talk and laugh and pose for photos. I am exhausted – the day has been ...
( Category: Historical April 16,2020 )
Russia’s Public Diplomacy by Unknown
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Mechanisms and Instruments of Emerging Russian Science Diplomacy Unlike, for example, in the United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland or France, in Russia, science diplomacy as a distinctive research field is ...
( Category: Historical April 16,2020 )

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