Patricians and Emperors: The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire
By: Ian Hughes
4.03
Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition
Patricians and Emperors offers concise comparative biographies of the individuals who wielded power…
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1. The Histories
By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola
4.01
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more
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"Hippocleides doesn't care."-Herodotus, The Histories
"So much, then, for the fish."-Herodotus, The Histories
"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."-Herodotus, The Histories
"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."-Herodotus, The Histories
2. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
3. The Castle of Otranto
By: Horace Walpole
3.18
Format: 125 pages, Paperback
First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an I… read more
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"My soul abhors a falsehood"-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"This life is but a pilgrimage."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"Heaven mocks the short-sighted views of man."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
"I fear no bad angel, and have offended no good one."-Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto
4. The Wind in the Willows
By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery
4.02
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
5. The Fall of Rome And the End of Civilization
By: Bryan Ward-Perkins
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or… read more
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6. Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome
By: Anthony Everitt
3.70
Format: 186 pages,
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustuswas praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as "a narr… read more
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7. The Persian Expedition
By: Xenophon , Rex Warner , None , George Cawkwell
4.18
Format: None pages,
In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his destiny abroad, provides… read more
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8. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914
By: Christopher Clark
3.79
Format: None pages,
On the morning of 6/28/1914, when Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife, Sophie Chotek, arrived at Sa… read more
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9. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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10. I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
By: Robert Graves
3.44
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54. Set in the… read more
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11. The Travels
By: Ronald E. Latham , Marco Polo , Ronald Latham
3.15
Format: None pages,
So much has been written on the subject of the celebrated Venetian traveller of the middle ages Mar… read more
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12. Dividing the Spoils: The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
By: Robin Waterfield
3.82
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent… read more
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13. The Mabinogion
By: Unknown , Jeffrey Gantz
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
On the bank of the river he saw a tall tree: from roots to crown one half was aflame and the other … read more
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14. In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
By: Tom Holland
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Hardcover
The acclaimed author of Rubiconand other superb works of popular history now produces a thrillingly… read more
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15. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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16. El Cid: The Making of a Legend
By: M.J. Trow
2.18
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
Rodrigo Diaz was one of countless warlords in 11th century Spain. Why, then, was an epic film starr… read more
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17. Shooting an Elephant
By: George Orwell
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Shooting an Elephant" is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a poli… read more
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18. Belisarius: The Last Roman General
By: None
4.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hughes has written a lively and detailed account of Belisarius's remarkable career."- Adrian Goldsw… read more
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19. The Roman Revolution
By: Ronald Syme
4.33
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The Roman Revolutionis a profound and unconventional treatment of a great theme - the fall of the R… read more
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20. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"The beginning is the most important part of the work."-Plato, The Republic
21. Byzantium: The Early Centuries
By: John Julius Norwich
4.01
Format: 0 pages,
"This book tells the story of the Byzantine Empire from its beginnings to the emergence of its only… read more
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22. King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
By: Adam Hochschild
4.18
Format: 442 pages, Kindle Edition
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for … read more
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"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europe…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be …"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
"Most striking about the traditional societies of the Congo was their remarkable artwork: baskets, mats, pottery, copper and ironwork, and, above all, woodcarving. It would be two decades before Europ…"-Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
23. Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the House of Caesar
By: Tom Holland
4.15
Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition
Author and historian Tom Holland returns to his roots in Roman history and the audience he cultivat… read more
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24. Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age
By: Tom Holland
4.22
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Pax is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that b… read more
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25. Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
By: Christopher Clark
4.18
Format: 1152 pages, Hardcover
An epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe and the charismatic figures who propelled… read more
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"In situations of polarization and heightened anxiety, people tend to regard their own fears as authentic and those of their opponents as manipulated."-Christopher Clark, Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
26. The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
By: Mark Mazower
4.23
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
In the exhausted, repressive years that followed Napoleon's defeat in 1815, there was one cause tha… read more
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27. Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
By: Judith Herrin
3.92
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
In 402 AD, after invading tribes broke through the Alpine frontiers of Italy and threatened the imp… read more
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28. Trajan: Rome's Last Conqueror
By: Nicholas Jackson
4.01
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Until the publication of this captivating biography, no such volume on Trajan’s life has been tailo… read more
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29. Maximinus Thrax: From Common Soldier to Emperor of Rome
By: Paul N. Pearson
3.78
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
The first full-length biography of the half-barbarian emperor.Maximinus was a Thracian tribesman “o… read more
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30. Patricians and Emperors: The Last Rulers of the Western Roman Empire
By: Ian Hughes
4.03
Format: 494 pages, Kindle Edition
Patricians and Emperors offers concise comparative biographies of the individuals who wielded power… read more
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