A Child's History of England

By Dickens, Charles

Book Id: WPLBN0000660959
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	A Child's History of England
Author:	Dickens, Charles
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Dickens, B. C. (n.d.). A Child's History of England. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.us/

Excerpt
Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighboring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, -- broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water.

Table of Contents
Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KINGS .................. 31 CHAPTER V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE........................................................ 44 CHAPTER VI ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD HAREFOOT, HARDICANUTE, AND EDWARD THE CONFESSOR ....................................................................................................... 46 CHAPTER VII ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD THE SECOND, AND CONQUERED BY THE NORMANS ........................................................................................................................ 55 CHAPTER VIII ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE FIRST, THE NORMAN CONQUEROR..................................................................................................................... ............... 59 CHAPTER IX ENGLAND UNDER WILLIAM THE SECOND, CALLED RUFUS.............. 68 CHAPTER X ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE FIRST, CALLED FINE-SCHOLAR ........ 76 CHAPTER XIENGLAND UNDER MATILDA AND STEPHEN ............................................. 88 CHAPTER XII ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE SECOND - PART THE FIRST .............. 92