Prairie gold by iowa press and authors club free ebook. Michael wanted to do something worthwhile, and got. List of works by tacitus, part of the internet classics archive. Tacitus is considered to be one of the greatest roman historians. Books by tacitus, cornelius sorted by popularity project gutenberg books by. The oxford translation, revised with notes by cornelius tacitus. Books by tacitus author of the annals of imperial rome. Contributions to wikisource are licensed under ccbysa3. The books featured on this site are based on the original project gutenberg etexts. Search by author, subject, title to find the book quickly and easily. Mobi files can be read on kindles, epub files can be read on other ebook readers, and zip files can be downloaded and read on your computer. Looking at the nook book version of the same book, its more than 520 pages. Tacitus on germany by cornelius tacitus project gutenberg. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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Tacitus on germany by cornelius tacitus translated by thomas gordon. I made a small program to download all the dutch books, and do some processing on them to make them more usable with my ebook reader. Project gutenberg, which but do you know everything it offers and how to make the best of the site. Otherwise, i think this is a good complete translation of the works of tacitus. This ebook text has been shared by project gutenberg. Standard ebooks takes ebooks from sources like project gutenberg, formats and typesets them using a carefully designed and professionalgrade style guide, lightly modernizes them, fully. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle.
In a distant part of the world fortune was now preparing the origin and rise of a new dynasty, whose varied destinies brought happiness or misery on the state, prosperity or destruction on the princes of its line. Project gutenberg 61,679 free ebooks by cornelius tacitus. Germany and the germans from an american point of view 19 price collier. This is the project gutenberg newsletter for aprilmay 2016 contents canadians have an opportunity to comment on the tpp over 50,000 project gutenberg ebooks are now available as free audiobooks has project gutenberg content find project gutenberg on social media new ebook listings from marchapril 2016 canadians have. Hide browse bar your current position in the text is marked in blue.
He lived in what has been called the silver age of latin literature, and is known for the brevity and compactness of his latin prose, as well as for his penetrating. The histories, volumes i and ii teaching resources. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. In his later years he became interested in writing an unbiased account of those times, starting his account just before tiberius came to the throne. Books by tacitus, cornelius sorted by popularity project gutenberg. Project gutenberg began in 1971 by michael hart as a community project to make plain text versions of books available freely to all. Index of the project gutenberg works of cornelius tacitus by cornelius tacitus. The project gutenberg ebook of the histories, by tacitus. Index of the project gutenberg works of cornelius tacitus by. Lake tahoe in the high sierras of california and nevada, its history, indians, discovery by fr. In this book you will find a wealth of information about roman history as well as some misc. Annales by roman historian and senator tacitus is a history of the roman empire from the reign of tiberius to that of nero, the years ad 1468. Tacitus grew up during a the reign of nero, and may have been a teenager when nero died and the roman empire was plunged into civil war.
The internet classics archive the histories by tacitus. Auth o rama public domain books about project gutenberg. Fyfes classic translation has been substantially revised and supplied with extensive historical and. Translated by alfred john church and william jackson brodribb. View project gutenberg web page and start viewing ebooks for free. Project gutenberg has a nice collection of free books, but downloading them manually is tedious. Project gutenberg was started back in 1971 by michael hart at the university of illinois, who was given an operators account with free time to spent xerox sigma v mainframe. Read tacitus the histories books 15 by tacitus available from rakuten kobo. Especially among librarians and other information professionals, project gutenberg. In the histories cornelius tacitus, widely regarded as the greatest of all roman historians, describes with cynical power the murderous year of the four emperorsad 69when in just a few months the whole of the roman empire was torn apart by civil war. It was founded in 1971 by american writer michael s. Tacituss most popular book is the annals of imperial rome.
A few other miscellaneous stories, not in the collection, are also listed below. Project gutenberg offers 62033 free ebooks for kindle, ipad, nook, android, and iphone. Project gutenbergs the germany and the agricola of. The reign of tiberius, out of the first six annals. Germania and agricola by cornelius tacitus free ebook. The agricola is a book by the roman historian tacitus, which recounts the life of his fatherinlaw gnaeus julius agricola, an eminent roman general. Project gutenberg pg is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to encourage the creation and distribution of ebooks. Index of the project gutenberg works of charles darwin english as author insectivorous plants english as author journal of researches into the natural history and geology of the countries visited during the voyage round the world of h. The ebooks available from project gutenberg australia, all of which are free of charge, are usually provided in txt or html format and can be read on any personal computer or laptop, using a text editor such as notepad, which comes bundled with every copy of microsoft windows, or. The oxford translation revised with notes, volume 1.
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Project gutenberg 61,672 free ebooks by cornelius tacitus. Because blocks are applied momentarily, you should try again later to visit if maxmind shows your address as being outside of germany. Tacitus on germany by cornelius tacitus free ebook. Concerning oratory, or the causes of corrupt eloquence by tacitus. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. The story of the volsungs volsunga saga, with excerpts. A history of the roman empire by tacitus, written 109 ad and translated into english by alfred john church and william jackson brodribb.
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