Download or read book Antonina Or the Fall of Rome Annotated written by William Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-17 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A romance of the fifth century, in which many of the scenes described in the 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ' are reset to suit the purpose of the author. Only two historical personages are introduced into the story, - the Emperor Honorius, and Alaric the Goth; and these attain only a secondary importance. Among the historical incidents used are the arrival of the Goths at the gates of Rome, the Famine, the last efforts of the besieged, the Treaty of Peace, the introduction of the Dragon of Brass, and the collection of the ransom, - most of these accounts being founded on the chronicles of Zosimus. This book does not show the intricacy of plot and clever construction of the author's modern society stories; but it is full of action, vivid in color, and sufficiently close to history to convey a dramatic sense of the Rome of Honorius and the closing-in of the barbarian
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Download or read book Antonina Or The Fall of Rome Annotated written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times -- the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths.
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Download or read book Antonina Annotated written by Wilkie Collins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome was his first published novel, a colorful tale of ancient Rome. Of this work, Collins wrote: "To the fictitious characters alone is committed the task of representing the spirit of the age. The Roman emperor, Honorius, and the Gothic king, Alaric, mix but little personally in the business of the story-only appearing in such events, and acting under such circumstances, as the records of history strictly authorize-but exact truth in respect to time, place, and circumstance is observed in every historical event introduced in the plot, from the period of the march of the Gothic invaders over the Alps to the close of the first barbarian blockade of Rome."
Download or read book Antonina Or the Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins Annotated written by Wilkie Collins and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times -- the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths. So don't wait! Scroll up and buy now.
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Download or read book History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol 6 written by Edward Gibbon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gibbon offers an explanation for why the Roman Empire fell, a task made difficult by a lack of comprehensive written sources, though he was not the only historian to tackle the subject. Most of his ideas are directly taken from what few relevant records were available: those of the Roman moralists of the 4th and 5th centuries.
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