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

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...

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....

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

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

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture....

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....

Unquestionably, Herodotus has left mankind one of the world's greatest works of literature...

Guy de Maupassant, (1850 - 1893), a native of Normandy, wrote in a bold and vigorous style that moves inexorably along clear plot lines....