[bksvol-discuss] Re: e: Re: novels about the ancient world
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:33:42 -0700 (PDT)
Who knows? Bertrice Small has some of her 16th-century
and slightly earlier use the "f" word not as a swear
word but as an action verb. I thought maybe that word
was used in that way in those times, but someone told
me no. Since I wasn't there...but it is plausible.
Cindy
--- kelby carlson <kelbycarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One book I just found looks very good:
>
> Stonehenge, 2,000 B.C. by Bernard Cornwell
>
> A couple of others that are on NLS is called the
> Grail Quest
> series, by the same author. Although, I do have to
> wonder if
> 12th century Britons used words like "shit". They
> just don't
> seem to talk like normal Englishman of that period
> would. No old
> English to speak of.
>
> Kelby
>
> Doomed Dragon
>
> "It is not what we see that determines who we are.
> It is how we
> choose to see it."
>
>
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Cheryl Fogle" <cfogle@xxxxxxx
> >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Date sent: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:46:08 -0500 (CDT)
> >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: novels about the
> ancient world
>
> >The McCullough series is excellent. I read a
> couple of
> >these years ago from NLS. I hope someone completes
> the
> >series for Bookshare. McCullough writes novels in
> several
> >time periods and several of her books are on
> bookshare.
>
> >Cheryl
>
>
>
> >.. On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:41:05 -0400
> > "E." <thoth93@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I, Claudius
> >> by
> >> Robert Graves
>
> >> Pompeii: A Novel
> >> by
> >> Robert Harris
>
> >> The Mistletow and the Sword
>
> >> The First Man in Rome
> >> by
> >> Colleen McCullough
> >> Synopsis:
> >> What life and intrigue was like at the close of
> the
> >>Roman Republic.
> >> Copyright Date:
> >> 1990
> >> Available Formats:
> >> BRF DAISY
> >> Membership required for download (United States
> License)
> >> The Grass Crown
> >> by
> >> Colleen McCullough
> >> Synopsis:
> >> Historic novel of Ancient Rome.
> >> Copyright Date:
> >> 1991
>
> >>Fortune's Favorites
> >> by
> >> Colleen McCullough
> >> Historic novel taking place in Ancient Rome.
> >> Copyright Date:
> >> 1993
>
> >> Caesar
> >> by
> >> Colleen McCullough
>
> >> Caesar's Women
> >> by
> >> Colleen McCullough
>
> >> The October Horse: A Novel about Caesar and
> Cleopatra
> >> by
> >> Colleen McCullough
>
> >> The Memoirs of Cleopatra
> >> by
> >> Margaret George
>
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