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At the end of Bede's most famous work, the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Bede lists his works.His list includes several books that have not survived to the present day; it also omits a few works of his which he either omitted or which he wrote after he finished the Historia.
Bede (/ b iː d /; Old English: Bēda; 672/3 – 26 May 735), also known as Saint Bede, the Venerable Bede, and Bede the Venerable (Latin: Beda Venerabilis), was an English monk, author and scholar. He was one of the greatest teachers and writers during the Early Middle Ages , and his most famous work, Ecclesiastical History of the English ...
The dates given are those of the first publication in book form. Five Weeks in a Balloon (Cinq semaines en ballon, 1863) The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras, 1866) Journey to the Center of the Earth (Voyage au centre de la Terre, 1864, revised 1867) From the Earth to the Moon (De la terre à la lune, 1865)
Adam Bede was the first novel by English author George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann Evans, first published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously , even though Evans was a well-published and highly respected scholar of her time.
Other manuscripts exist that cannot be traced to the m or c texts. [20] [21] [22] New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M 826. CLA XI, no. 1662. This consists of only a single leaf; the text is part of book III, chapters 29–30. The writing is of the late 8th century. The manuscript was owned by Thomas Phillipps, the antiquary.
The book of Enoch, or, 1 Enoch (1912). [442] Edited and translated by Biblical scholar Robert Henry Charles (1855–1931). [443] Translated from the editor's Ethiopic text and edited with the introduction, notes and indexes of the first edition wholly recast, enlarged and rewritten, together with a reprint from the editor's text of the Greek ...
The Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, or An Ecclesiastical History of the English People, [1] is Bede's best-known work, completed in about 731. The first of the five books begins with some geographical background and then sketches the history of England, beginning with Julius Caesar's invasion in 55 BC. [2]
"the plot [of Adam Bede] is founded on a story told to George Eliot by her aunt Elizabeth Evans, a Methodist preacher and the original of Dinah Morris of the novel, of a confession of child-murder, made to her by a woman named Mary Voce in prison." In November 1801 Voce was a married woman whose husband Thomas was in the militia.