Actually 4.5 stars but I rounded it up to 5. I was really engrossed in this one and had to keep reading until the finish. I read it aloud to make it last, so I could linger over every word. I was sorry when it did end. The author's writing was nothing short of brilliant. There was no violent ...
In the house of Marcus Anicius Rufus, the lamps were already lighted. At the direction of a slave, I went to sit on a bench in one of the rooms bordering the atrium. In the distance was a garden. I could smell damp plants and earth; I heard the murmur of water streaming into the basin of an invis...
BURGUNDIANS AND ARMAGNACS La guerre est ma patrie,mon harnois ma maison,et en toute saisoncombattre, c’est ma vie. War is my fatherlandmy armour is my house,and in every seasoncombat is my life. — Folksong n the first day of March in the year 1409, the populace of the city of Chartres were surpri...