Product Description: This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: The Venerable Bede (673-735), a Benedictine monk celebrated for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People, also compiled one of the oldest and most inspiring of devotional books, the Abbreviated Psaiter. Crafted for private prayer and meditation, the Abbreviated Psalter consists of carefully condensed renderings of the Psalms...read more

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Depicts the lives of English and Irish saints during the sixth and seventh centuries and describes the early history of the Christian Church (view table of contents)

Product Description: Renowned as the most learned man in eighth-century Europe and the author of the first English history to be written by an Englishman, the Venerable Bede was the personification of the golden age of Anglo-Saxon Northumbria. Here are specially commissioned translations from his Life of Cuthbert, his Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow, and his famous Ecclesiastical History of the English People...read more

Product Description: Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People was completed in 731 and still ranks among the most popular of history books. First published in 1969, Colgrave and Mynors's edition made use for the first time of the mid-eighth-century manuscript now in Leningrad and provided a survey of the extant manuscripts and a new translation; it also brought up to date Plummer's invaluable edition...read more

Product Description: Bede, delivered to a monastery at the age of seven, stands as one of the church’s most pious and devoted servants. He earned the august titles of “Doctor of the Church” and “Father of English History.” Far more than a mere historian, Bede is by turns naturalist, geographer, scientist, biblical commentator, and biographer of saints...read more

Product Description: This masterpiece of medieval historical literature constitutes the first account of English history. Written in 731 AD by a Northumbrian monk, it chronicles the growth of Christianity in Anglo-Saxon England. The Venerable Bede's account starts with the Roman invasion led by Julius Caesar in 55-54 BC and extends to the date of its completion...read more

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