The life of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, generally known to the world as Heliogabalus, is as yet shrouded in impenetrable mystery. The picture we have of the reign is that of an imperial orgy - sacrilegious, necromantic, and obscene. The boy Emperor, who reigned from his fourteenth to his eighteenth year, is depicted amongst that crowd of tyrants who held the throne of Imperial Rome, by the help of the praetorian army, as one of the most tyrannical, certainly as the most debased...
Not Pretty, but Precious; And Other Short Stories : Unveiling the Hidden Beauty: An Anthology of 19th-Century American Literature
John Hay, John William De Forest, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford, Clara F. Guernsey, Lucy Hamilton Hooper, Margret Field, J. R. Hadermann, Chauncey Hickox, Margaret Hosmer, R. D. Minor
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The Bread-winners: A Social Study
John Hay
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Poems
John Hay
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Pike County Ballads and Other Poems
John Hay
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Castilian Days
John Hay
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