Author: Wilkie Collins
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Category : Goths
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
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Category : Goths
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome is a historical romance by Wilkie Collins. Collins was an English novelist and playwright. Excerpt: "He stopped; for by this time he had lashed himself into fury. His eyes glared, his cheeks flushed, his voice rose. Could he then have seen the faintest vision of the destiny that future ages had in store for the posterity of the race that now suffered throughout civilised Europe, like him—could he have imagined how, in after years, the 'middle class', despised in his day, was to rise to privilege and power; to hold in its just hands the balance of the prosperity of nations; to crush oppression and regulate rule; to soar in its mighty flight above thrones and principalities, and rank and riches, apparently obedient, but really commanding;—could he but have foreboded this, what a light must have burst upon his gloom, what a hope must have soothed him in his despair!"

Author: Wilkie Collins
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Category : Goths
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: William Wilkie Collins
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an early expert of secret and tension, composing such works of art as The Moonstone, The Woman dressed in White, and Basil. Antonina, or, The Fall of Rome was his previously distributed novel, a beautiful story of old Rome. Of this work, Collins stated: "To the invented characters alone is submitted the assignment of addressing the soul of the age. The Roman head, Honorius, and the Gothic ruler, Alaric, blend however little by and by occupied with the story-just showing up in such occasions, and acting under such conditions, as the records of history carefully approve yet precise truth in regard to time, spot, and situation is seen in each authentic occasion presented in the plot, from the time of the walk of the Gothic trespassers over the Alps to the end of the primary brute barricade of Rome."

Author: Wilkie Collins
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Ancient Rome, AD 408: Young Antonia had the misfortune to live in interesting times -- the days when mighty Rome was brought low by the terror of the Goths. So don't wait! Scroll up and buy now.

Author: Wilkie Collins
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Evanston Free Public Library
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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