Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with want of sleep, and his olive features darker still from dust and sweat. The viceroy was looking fixedly at him, yet he saw him not, so full was his mind of this sudden and most unexpected order. To him it seemed as if the solid earth had given way beneath his feet. His life and the work of his life had come to irremediable ruin. "Very good," he said at last in a hard dry voice, "you can go." The man saluted and staggered out of the hall. A yellow-haired British major-domo came forward for orders. "Is the General there?" "He is waiting, your excellency." "Then show him in, and leave us together." A few minutes later Licinius Crassus, the head of the British military establishment, had joined his chief. He was a large, bearded man in a white civilian toga, hemmed with the Patrician purple. His rough, bold features, burned and seamed and lined with the long African wars, were shadowed with anxiety as he looked with questioning eyes at the drawn, haggard face of the viceroy. "I fear, your excellency, that you have had bad news from Rome." "The worst, Crassus. It is all over with Britain. It is a question whether even Gaul will be held."
The Last of the Legions
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with want of sleep, and his olive features darker still from dust and sweat. The viceroy was looking fixedly at him, yet he saw him not, so full was his mind of this sudden and most unexpected order. To him it seemed as if the solid earth had given way beneath his feet. His life and the work of his life had come to irremediable ruin. "Very good," he said at last in a hard dry voice, "you can go." The man saluted and staggered out of the hall. A yellow-haired British major-domo came forward for orders. "Is the General there?" "He is waiting, your excellency." "Then show him in, and leave us together." A few minutes later Licinius Crassus, the head of the British military establishment, had joined his chief. He was a large, bearded man in a white civilian toga, hemmed with the Patrician purple. His rough, bold features, burned and seamed and lined with the long African wars, were shadowed with anxiety as he looked with questioning eyes at the drawn, haggard face of the viceroy. "I fear, your excellency, that you have had bad news from Rome." "The worst, Crassus. It is all over with Britain. It is a question whether even Gaul will be held."
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with want of sleep, and his olive features darker still from dust and sweat. The viceroy was looking fixedly at him, yet he saw him not, so full was his mind of this sudden and most unexpected order. To him it seemed as if the solid earth had given way beneath his feet. His life and the work of his life had come to irremediable ruin. "Very good," he said at last in a hard dry voice, "you can go." The man saluted and staggered out of the hall. A yellow-haired British major-domo came forward for orders. "Is the General there?" "He is waiting, your excellency." "Then show him in, and leave us together." A few minutes later Licinius Crassus, the head of the British military establishment, had joined his chief. He was a large, bearded man in a white civilian toga, hemmed with the Patrician purple. His rough, bold features, burned and seamed and lined with the long African wars, were shadowed with anxiety as he looked with questioning eyes at the drawn, haggard face of the viceroy. "I fear, your excellency, that you have had bad news from Rome." "The worst, Crassus. It is all over with Britain. It is a question whether even Gaul will be held."
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511833301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago" from Arthur Conan Doyle. Scottish physician and writer (1859-1930).
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511833301
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago" from Arthur Conan Doyle. Scottish physician and writer (1859-1930).
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago (Illustrated)
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736803133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
13 stories The last of the legions -- The last galley -- Through the veil -- The coming of the Huns -- The contest -- The first cargo -- An iconoclast -- Giant Maximin -- The red star -- The silver mirror -- The homecoming -- A point of contact -- The centurion. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste.[1] He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3736803133
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
13 stories The last of the legions -- The last galley -- Through the veil -- The coming of the Huns -- The contest -- The first cargo -- An iconoclast -- Giant Maximin -- The red star -- The silver mirror -- The homecoming -- A point of contact -- The centurion. Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste.[1] He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago (Annotated)
Author: Sir Arthur Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520826998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.Conan Doyle was a major short story writer. All but four of the Holmes stories were written for serialization in various magazines. But he was very prolific with historical, social, religious and supernatural/spiritual tales for decades. Most of the stories in this volume are set in the Roman Empire and a number feature real life historical figures.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781520826998
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.Conan Doyle was a major short story writer. All but four of the Holmes stories were written for serialization in various magazines. But he was very prolific with historical, social, religious and supernatural/spiritual tales for decades. Most of the stories in this volume are set in the Roman Empire and a number feature real life historical figures.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
Author: Arthur Conan ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
Author: Doyle Arthur Conan
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318956838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318956838
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781484824467
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781484824467
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago (Annotated)
Author: Arthur Conan Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532953736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago is a volume collecting 13 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1922. The stories covers various centuries from Antiquity to first millenary. Contents: The last of the legions -- The last galley -- Through the veil -- The coming of the Huns -- The contest -- The first cargo -- An iconoclast -- Giant Maximin -- The red star -- The silver mirror -- The homecoming -- A point of contact -- The centurion.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781532953736
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago is a volume collecting 13 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1922. The stories covers various centuries from Antiquity to first millenary. Contents: The last of the legions -- The last galley -- Through the veil -- The coming of the Huns -- The contest -- The first cargo -- An iconoclast -- Giant Maximin -- The red star -- The silver mirror -- The homecoming -- A point of contact -- The centurion.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago by Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781984085146
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with want of sleep, and his olive features darker still from dust and sweat. The viceroy was looking fixedly at him, yet he saw him not, so full was his mind of this sudden and most unexpected order. To him it seemed as if the solid earth had given way beneath his feet. His life and the work of his life had come to irremediable ruin.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781984085146
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Pontus, the Roman viceroy, sat in the atrium of his palatial villa by the Thames, and he looked with perplexity at the scroll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with want of sleep, and his olive features darker still from dust and sweat. The viceroy was looking fixedly at him, yet he saw him not, so full was his mind of this sudden and most unexpected order. To him it seemed as if the solid earth had given way beneath his feet. His life and the work of his life had come to irremediable ruin.
The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago
Author: Arthur Doyle
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040464770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5040464770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description