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An elaborately written philosophical novel of ancient Rome which incorporates a retelling of Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche. It was as a critic ... More

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This early works on 'Celebrated Crimes' is a fascinating look at early crimes and will appeal to all historians. Many of the earliest books, ... More

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A French classical romance by De Stendhal and an author profile.

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Title: The Children of the King. A tale of Southern Italy.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national ... More

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George Sand's "Leone Leoni" reverses the "Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut" and gives Manon's helpless amoral character to a man, Leoni, Juliette, the ... More

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The Making Of A Saint: A Romance Of Mediaeval Italy. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now ... More

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James's first novel, published in 1876. A young man is transplanted from a lawyer's office in a Massachusetts town to a sculptor's studio in Rome. ... More

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Aaron's Rod is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, started in 1917 and published in 1922. The protagonist of this picaresque novel, Aaron Sissons, is a union ... More

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Title: The bravo: a Venetian story.Author: James Fenimore CooperPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed ... More

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Titus Livius (59 BiAD 17), known as Livy in English, was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome, Ab Urbe Condita, from its founding ... More

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Novel by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and ... More

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The downfall of Captain Nugent was for some time a welcome subject of conversation in marine circles at Sunwich. At The Goblets, a rambling old inn ... More

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ... More

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a This book is not big enough to hold all the stories that might be written about the Romans, and at first it was puzzling to know how to choose. One ... More

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"Marius the Epicurean" is an imaginary historical portrait in which Marius, the detached observer, is offered as a kind of self-portrait of Pater ... More

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Robert Welch Herrick (1868-1938) was a novelist who was part of a new generation of American realists. His novels deal with the turbulence of ... More

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Title: Vittoria.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of ... More

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Seven essays D. H. Lawrence wrote after visiting Etruscan cities in central Italy.

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Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. His works include Earthwork Out of Tuscany (1895), Halfway ... More

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