Alfred Church: 61 books

Book cover of The Iliad and the Odyssey for Boys and Girls
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction. Homer's tale is a compassionate view...
Book cover of Roman life in the days of Cicero
by Alfred John Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

A Roman father's first duty to his boy, after lifting him up in his arms in token that he was a true son of the house, was to furnish him with a first name out of the scanty list (just seventeen) to which his choice was limited. This naming was done on the eighth day after birth, and was accompanied...
Book cover of The Aeneid for Boys and Girls
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Follow Aeneid as he flees a burning Troy with his family and sets out on a dangerous journey to found what will one day become The Roman Empire. Thrill with him as he gets caught up in conflicts between the gods, all the while striving to complete his own grand destiny. Virgil intended this book to...
Book cover of Romulus

Romulus

the Founder of Rome

by Alfred J. Church, . Plutarch
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

Romulus is the legendary founder and the first king of Rome. Son of Mars by Rhea Silvia, daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa, he was, so runs the myth, exposed with Remus, his twin-brother, at the foot of the Palatine hill, where he was suckled by a she-wolf, and afterward brought up by the shepherd...
Book cover of The crusaders

The crusaders

A story of the war for the holy sepulchre

by Alfred j. Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012

We find in the Chronica Maiora of Matthew Paris, a monk of St. Alban's Abbey in the thirteenth century, the story of a Jew who had been doomed, for some insult offered to Christ, to live till the Second Corning. He had heard the story from an Armenian bishop on a visit to England, who said that he...
Book cover of With the King at Oxford: A Tale of the Great Rebellion
by Alfred John Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

My father was the son of a gentleman of Oxfordshire that had a small estate near to the town of Eynsham, in that county. The monks of Eynsham Priory had the land afore-time; and 'twas said that here, as elsewhere, there was a curse upon such as held for their own uses that which had been dedicated to...
Book cover of The Iliad & The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction. Homer's tale is a compassionate view...
Book cover of The Iliad for Boys and Girls
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction. Homer's tale is a compassionate view...
Book cover of Stories of Charlemagne (Illustrated)

Stories of Charlemagne (Illustrated)

And the twelve peers of france From the old romances

by Alfred j. Church
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012

The Charlemagne romances, as translated by Lord Berners and William Caxton, occupy twelve volumes in the Extra Series of the Early English Text Society. Some of these are variants of the same story. There is a romance of "Ferumbras," for instance, which gives substantially the same tale...
Book cover of The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013

The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of every man's journey though life. The poem centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave...
Book cover of The Iliad for Boys and Girls

The Iliad for Boys and Girls

With Linked Table of Contents

by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016

The Iliad is typically described as one of the greatest war stories of all time. Set during the Trojan War, this timeless poem vividly conveys the horror and heroism of men and gods wrestling with towering emotions and battling amid devastation and destruction. Homer's tale is a compassionate view...
Book cover of The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016

The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. The poem centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. It takes Odysseus ten years to reach Ithaca after the ten-year Trojan War. Odysseus survives storm and shipwreck, the cave...
Book cover of Stories of the East From Herodotus
by Alfred J. Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018

Stories of the East From Herodotus is a short history of ancient kings from Egypt, Babylon, and more. It is meant for a high school audience.
Book cover of Stories from Virgil
by Alfred John Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

For ten years King Agamemnon and the men of Greece laid siege to Troy. But though sentence had gone forth against the city, yet the day of its fall tarried, because certain of the gods loved it well and defended it, as Apollo, and Mars, the God of war, and Father Jupiter himself. Wherefore Minerva put...
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