Synopsis
History books can be notoriously boring. Not so the nineteenth century publication by an author professing to assist in "the project of combining instruction with amusement" and hoping that "narrative in sport may be found to constitute history in earnest."
The Roman tales are told with gusto...Nobody escapes the author's scathing satire as he launches vitriolic attacks on the most revered of Roman personages ...Not only public figures but also social conventions become the butt of his criticism.
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About the Author
John Leech was a well regarded English caricaturist, whose works often appeared in Punch and the London News.
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Beckett's The Comic History of Rome, first published in London in 1852, is now available in a reprint.
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