Augustine David Crake: 5 books

Brian Fitz-Count: A Story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey written by Augustine David Crake who was an English cleric and author, known for devotional works, and for juvenile historical fiction. This book was published in 1887. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally...

The author has accomplished a desire of many years in writing a story of Wallingford Castle and Dorchester Abbey. They are the two chief historical landmarks of a country familiar to him in his boyhood, and now again his home. The first was the most important stronghold on the Thames during the calamitous...

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It is not without pleasure that the author presents this, the twelfth of his series of historical novelettes, to his friends and readers; the characters, real and imaginary, are very dear to him; they have formed a part of his social circle for some two years past, and if no one else should believe in...

This little volume, now presented to the indulgence of the reader, is the third of a series intended to illustrate the history and manners of our Anglo-Saxon forefathers, whom a great historian very appropriately names "The Old English:" it does not claim the merit of deep research, only of an earnest...