Books with author A.J. Church

Excerpt from Stories of Charlemagne: And the Twelve Peers of France From the Old RomancesI Have endeavoured to tell in this volume the story of Charlemagne, the Charlemagne, it must be understood, not of history, but of Romance. The two personages are curiously different. Each writer of a romance had naturally a hero of his own. As he had to exalt this hero, he could hardly help depreciating the king. Charlemagne suffers by comparison with Roland and Reynaud very much as, in the Iliad, Agamemmon, the overlord of the Greeks, suffers by comparison with the subordinate King, Achilles. The real Charlemagne was a very great personality, one that impressed his age as deeply as any man has ever done; in these stories he often appears petty, capricious, and obstinate.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Decades after an environmental apocalypse much of history had been lost. In a world where humans no longer dream, Cha’risa finds herself dreaming of a past she hasn’t lived-a past someone doesn’t want her to remember. She had always been led to believe that Native Americans were the only humans left on earth, but when a villager goes missing and another mysteriously slips into a coma the truth begins to unfold. She discovers she’s part of a secret group of people evolution has entrusted to relive the past of their ancestors. Now she must cross the ruins of a segregated world in search of a life saving herb with the life of a friend, and the fate of her people, hanging in the balance.

Follow Aeneid as he flees a burning Troy with his family and sets out on a dangerous journey to found what will one day become The Roman Empire. Thrill with him as he gets caught up in conflicts between the gods, all the while striving to complete his own grand destiny. Virgil intended this book to be a sequel to the Iliad and the Odyssey, and as such it takes up with events just after the finish of the Odyssey. Inscribed here are myths and legends and tales of bravery destined to last for all time.