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The Romans

A 2,000-Year History

by Edward J. Watts ...

**An acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century“A sweeping historical survey that spans two millennia…Those intrigued by the ebb and flow of political power…will find in this book a cornucopia."—Wall Street Journal**When we think of “ancient Romans” today, many picture the toga-clad ... Read more

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**An acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth century“A sweeping historical survey that spans two millennia…Those intrigued by the ebb and flow of political power…will find in this book a cornucopia."—Wall Street Journal**When we think of “ancient Romans” today, many picture the toga-clad
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Edward J. Watts ...

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a ... Read more

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As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history. The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a
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The Final Pagan Generation

Rome's Unexpected Path to Christianity

by Edward J. Watts ...

Series Book 53 - Transformation of the Classical Heritage
The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked ... Read more

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The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated confrontations saw the Christian establishment legislate against pagan practices as mobs attacked
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Mortal Republic

How Rome Fell into Tyranny

by Edward J. Watts ...

The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier ... Read more

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The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier
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Hypatia

The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher

by Edward J. Watts ...

Series series Women in Antiquity
A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her ... Read more

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A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death symbolized the end of the Classical world. But Hypatia was a person before she was a symbol. Her
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The Ultimate Christmas Collection

by L. Frank Baum, Leo Tolstoy, F. Marion Crawford, J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Lucy Maud Montgomery, George MacDonald, Charles Dickens, Frances Browne, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Kenneth Grahame, Eleanor H. Porter, Jack London, Beatrix Potter, Juliana Horatia Ewing, Thomas Nelson Page, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, O. Henry, Hans Christian Andersen, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Selma Lagerlöf, Elizabeth Harrison, Mark Twain, Susan Coolidge, Anthony Trollope, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Henry Van Dyke, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Hardy, James Fenimore Cooper, Lucy Wheelock, Olive Thorne Miller, François Coppée, James Weber Linn, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Anton Chekhov, Edgar Wallace, Alphonse Daudet, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Fra Filippo Lippi, Guy de Maupassant, Saki, Bret Harte, Robert E. Howard, Oliver Bell Bunce, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, William Canton, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eugene Field, Nora Archibald Smith, John Mason Neale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sara Teasdale, Thomas Tusser, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, William Topaz McGonagall, John Donne, Charles Wesley, Carolyn Wells, William Drummond, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Margaret Deland, John Addington Symonds, Edward Thring, Mary Austin, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, Robert Southwell, James Whitcomb Riley, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Eliza Cook, George Wither, John G. Whittier, Richard Watson Gilder, Henry Vaughan, Martin Luther, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Robert Browning, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K Chesterton, R. Austin Freeman, Fred M. White, Robert Barr, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank R. Stockton, Grant Allen, Jerome K. Jerome, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Algernon Blackwood ...

This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites. ... Read more

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This carefully curated anthology brings together a broad selection of timeless works in one digital edition. Readers can discover essential voices, memorable stories and enduring ideas across a rich variety of literary styles. Prepared for comfortable continuous reading, this collection is ideal for exploring classic literature or returning to lasting favorites.
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Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville

by Edward Watts ...

Series series Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short stories, novels, poems, plays, and historical publications, Indian Haters were white settlers on the western frontier who to kill ... Read more

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Berserk Violence, Racial Vengeance, and Settler Colonialism in American Writing from Franklin to Melville studies the literary and cultural tradition of the “Indian Hater” in American writing from the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. In dozens of short stories, novels, poems, plays, and historical publications, Indian Haters were white settlers on the western frontier who to kill
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome

The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Edward J. Watts ...

Narrated by David Colacci ...

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11 hours 16 min

As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a tool ... Read more

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As this book intriguingly explores, for those who would make Rome great again and their victims, ideas of Roman decline and renewal have had a long and violent history.The decline of Rome has been a constant source of discussion for more than 2200 years. Everyone from American journalists in the twenty-first century AD to Roman politicians at the turn of the third century BC have used it as a tool
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In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom

by Marcel Proust, Adam Watt ...

Translated by Charlotte Mandell ...

Series series Oxford World's Classics
'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.' In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), is a novel of exploration and (self-) discovery, continuing the story of the narrator's youth and adolescence. From ... Read more

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'I was at one of those periods in youth--vacant, without any particular love object--when, like a lover seeing his beloved in all things, we desire, we seek, we see Beauty everywhere.' In the Shadow of Girls in Blossom, the second volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), is a novel of exploration and (self-) discovery, continuing the story of the narrator's youth and adolescence. From
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Mortal Republic

How Rome Fell into Tyranny

by Edward J. Watts ...

Narrated by Matt Kugler ...

Unabridged

10 hours 33 min

The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier ... Read more

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The gripping, definitive account of how the Romans lost their Republic.**“An incisive history … The parallels to the present day are striking.” —**New YorkerIn Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier
... Read more

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The Romans

A 2,000-Year History

by Edward J. Watts ...

Narrated by John Curless ...

Unabridged

29 hours 13 min

An acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth centuryWhen we think of “ancient Romans” today, many picture the toga-clad figures of Cicero and Caesar, presiding over a republic, and then an empire, before seeing their world collapse at the hands of barbarians in the fifth century AD.The ... Read more

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An acclaimed scholar tells the full, breathtaking history of Rome, from its emergence in the Iron Age to the capture of Constantinople in the thirteenth centuryWhen we think of “ancient Romans” today, many picture the toga-clad figures of Cicero and Caesar, presiding over a republic, and then an empire, before seeing their world collapse at the hands of barbarians in the fifth century AD.The
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The Mad Scientist Megapack

23 Tales of Scientists, Creatures, & Diabolical Experiments!

by Lawrence Watt-Evans Lawrence Lawrence Watt-Evans Watt-Evans, Edward M. Lerner ...

"The Mad Scientist Megapack" assembled 23 tales of Scientists, their Creatures, and Experiments both Diabolical and Dangerous! Including are:MYSHKIN, by David V. ReedA LIGHT THAT SHAMED THE SUN, by C. J. HendersonINCOMPLETE DATA, by H.B. FyfeTHE CORPSE ON THE GRATING, by Hugh B. CaveCOSMIC TELETYPE, by Carl JacobiMONSTER KIDNAPS GIRL AT MAD SCIENTIST’S COMMAND!, by Lawrence Watt-EvansGREAT MINDS, ... Read more

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"The Mad Scientist Megapack" assembled 23 tales of Scientists, their Creatures, and Experiments both Diabolical and Dangerous! Including are:MYSHKIN, by David V. ReedA LIGHT THAT SHAMED THE SUN, by C. J. HendersonINCOMPLETE DATA, by H.B. FyfeTHE CORPSE ON THE GRATING, by Hugh B. CaveCOSMIC TELETYPE, by Carl JacobiMONSTER KIDNAPS GIRL AT MAD SCIENTIST’S COMMAND!, by Lawrence Watt-EvansGREAT MINDS,
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