The Whole Works is a comprehensive collection of writings by King Alfred, one of the most important figures in Anglo-Saxon history. Compiled in the late 19th century, this edition includes…

Abbott is an excellent story teller and historian. Though short, his series on history serves as an excellent primer. (Patrick Trester)

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Jacob Abbott (November 14, 1803 -…

Written in the mid-19th century by Jacob Abbott, a prolific American author of children's books, this work is a biography of King Alfred the Great, an English monarch who reigned…

Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest…

Extracts from Alfred’s Orosius is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1885. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science…

Extracts From Alfred???????s Orosius (1893) is a book that features selected passages from the work of Orosius, a 5th-century Spanish historian, as translated by King Alfred the Great of England…

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…