5 livres semblables à Histoire romaine
La Pharsale
"In this edition Professor Fantham offers the first full-scale commentary on the neglected second book of Lucan's epic poem on the war between Caesar and Pompey: De bello civili. Book II presents all three leading figures - Cato, Caesar and Pompey - in speech and action. It expresses the moral and political dilemma of civil war and portrays Pompey's loss of authority during his withdrawal from…
Thèmes communs : Campaigns, Latin language, Early works to 1800, History
Enquête sur Londres
Monument with effigy of John Stow, Church of [[St Andrew Undershaft, City of London, with arms of the Worshipful Company of Merchant Taylors and Latin inscription:"Either do things worth writing or write things worth reading"]]
Thèmes communs : Antiquities, Histoire, Early works to 1800, History
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou, Dix ans plus tard
In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in the Bibliotheque Nationale while researching a history he planned to write on Louis XIV. They chronicled the adventures of a young man named D'Artagnan who, upon…
Thèmes communs : Histoire, History
Une étude de l'histoire
A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought.
Thèmes communs : Historiography, Histoire, History
Les Sept Piliers de la Sagesse
Seven Pillars of Wisdom is the autobiographical account of the experiences of British Army Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") while serving as a military advisor to Bedouin forces during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire of 1916 to 1918. It was completed in February 1922, but first published in December 1926, originally published for the US market in 1927 as Revolt in the…
Thèmes communs : Campaigns, Biography & Memoir, History