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William Somerset Maugham (1874 ? 1965) took his reading material quite seriously....

Of all the crowned heads of Europe, there was none to match the dignity, grace, and magnificence of Louis XIV, the greatest king in French history....

In A.D. 66, nationalist and religious revolutionaries in Palestine led a ferocious revolt of the Jewish people against the authority of mighty Rome....

William Somerset Maugham, novelist, playwright, short-storywriter, and the highest paid author in the world in the 1930's, nevertheless failed to gain critical acclaim....

This is the breathtaking adventure of the great Carthaginian general who shook the foundations of Rome...

The story of the Roman Republic is the greatest epic in human history....

German short stories began in the late 18th century as brief, beautifully written moral fables....

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) was born at the height of British Imperial power. When he died, the British Empire was all but a memory...

A History of Rome is the story of a tiny market town on the Tiber, its rise to world domination, and then its slow, terrible plunge to utter ruin...

A History of Greece is the thrilling story of the rise to power and influence of the greatest civilization the world has ever known...