tailieunhanh - Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15)

The year 1000 . was one of strange history. Its advent threw the people of Europe into a state of mortal terror. Ten centuries had passed since the birth of Christ. The world was about to come to an end. Such was the general belief. How it was to reach its end,--whether by fire, water, or some other agent of ruin,--the prophets of disaster did not say, nor did people trouble themselves to learn. Destruction was coming upon them, that was enough to know; how to provide against it was the one thing to be considered. Some hastened to the churches; others to the taverns | Historic Tales Vol. 1 1 HISTORIC TALES VOL. I Charles Morris Historic Tales Vol. 1 Project Gutenberg s Historic Tales Vol. 1 of 15 by Charles Morris This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Historic Tales Vol. 1 of 15 The Romance of Reality Author Charles Morris Release Date July 15 2005 EBook 16298 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HISTORIC TALES VOL. 1 OF 15 Produced by David Kline David Cortesi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http Édition d Élite Historical Tales The Romance of Reality Historic Tales Vol. 1 By 2 CHARLES MORRIS Author of Half-Hours with the Best American Authors Tales from the Dramatists etc. IN FIFTEEN VOLUMES Volume I American I . LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON Copyright 1893 by . LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. Copyright 1904 by . LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. Copyright 1908 by . LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. Illustration WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE. PREFACE. It has become a commonplace remark that fact is often stranger than fiction. It may be said as a variant of this that history is often more romantic than romance. The pages of the record of man s doings are frequently illustrated by entertaining and striking incidents relief points in the dull monotony of every-day events stories fitted to rouse the reader from languid weariness and stir anew in his veins the pulse of interest in human life. There are many such --dramas on the stage of history life scenes that are pictures in action tales pathetic stirring enlivening full of the element of the unusual of the stuff the novel and the romance are made of yet with the advantage of being actual fact. Incidents of this kind have proved as attractive to writers as to readers. They have dwelt .