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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a six-volume work by the English historian Edward Gibbon. It traces Western civilization (as well as the Islamic and Mongolian conquests) from the height of the Roman Empire to the fall of Byzantium. Volume I was published in 1776 and went through six printings. Volumes II and III were published in 1781; volumes IV, V, and VI in 1788–1789.
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...3) Woman of God
5) Coriolanus
6) Eternal
7) Beach music
A Southerner living abroad, Jack McCall is scarred by tragedy and betrayal. His desperate desire to find peace after his wife’s suicide draws him into a painful, intimate search for the one haunting secret in his family’s past that can heal his anguished...
8) Quo vadis?
12) Roderick Hudson
13) Foreign affairs
14) I, Claudius
Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius...
Anthony Doerr has received many awards—from the New York Public Library, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Library Association. Then came the Rome...
In Lives, his most famous and influential work, Plutarch explores how character and personality lead to happiness and tragedy. The biographical history was written at the beginning of the second century A.D. This version was translated and published in 1683 by John Dryden then revised in 1864 by the poet and scholar Arthur Hugh Clough.
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