Tacitus: The Histories, Volumes I and II

Cornelius Tacitus

By Tacitus With An Introduction By Edward Brooks, Jr. INTRODUCTION.

Cornelius Tacitus

The whole of Germany is thus bounded; separated from Gaul, from Rhoetia and Pannonia, by the rivers Rhine and Danube; from Sarmatia and Dacia by mutual fear, or by high mountains: the rest is encom...

Cornelius Tacitus

[Transcriber's note: Footnotes have been renumbered; all references to them use the new numbers.

Cornelius Tacitus

THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS, OUT OF THE FIRST SIX ANNALS OF TACITUS WITH HIS ACCOUNT OF GERMANY, AND LIFE OF AGRICOLA By Tacitus Translated By Thomas Gordon And Edited By Arthur Galton "Alme...

Jane Austen

Chapter 1 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Letter 1 St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17-- TO Mrs. Saville, England You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such ...

Herman Melville

Original Transcriber's Notes: This text is a combination of etexts, one from the now-defunct ERIS project at Virginia Tech and one from Project Gutenberg's archives.

Charles Dickens

Book the First--Recalled to Life I. The Period It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was...