Henry Carter Hull

This book tries to describe what an intelligent person would have witnessed in Ancient Rome if by some legerdemain he had been translated to the Second Christian Century, and conducted about the imperial city under competent guidance. The year 134 after Christ has been chosen as the hypothetical time of this visit, not from any special virtue in that date, but because Rome was then architecturally nearly completed, the Empire seemed in its most prosperous...

From a distance, Saudi Arabia may seem a subdued, or even dull place; but for those who take a closer look it emerges as a fascinating country, not necessarily because of its political and economic importance, but because of its people. Reticent perhaps but, on closer acquaintance, charming and warm, the Saudis form a far less monolithic society than one might expect.Divided by region, creed, and background but united in Islam, insular yet forever...

"A View from Abroad" explores the story of John and Abigail Adams in Europe"--

The complete trilogy following the double life of a young black man in mid-twentieth-century New York: “Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure.” --Dwight Garner, The New York Times In this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright--hailed by the New York Times as “malevolent, bitter, glittering”--a young black intellectual from the South struggles to make it in New York City. This special compilation...

"A gripping historical mystery based on the real-life diary entries of Martha Ballard, an 18th-century midwife who found herself at the center of a murder trial"--