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The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part A.

by David Hume (1711–1776)

45 chapters, about 105,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. Chapter 1 100 words
2. MY OWN LIFE. 2,700 words
3. DEAR SIR, 1,500 words
4. “MY DEAREST FRIEND, 100 words
5. “DEAR SIR, 100 words
6. THE BRITONS. 1,100 words
7. THE ROMANS. 1,400 words
8. THE BRITONS. 200 words
9. THE SAXONS. 2,000 words
10. THE HEPTARCHY 500 words
11. THE KINGDOM OF KENT 1,600 words
12. THE KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBERLAND 1,200 words
13. THE KINGDOM OF EAST ANGLIA 200 words
14. THE KINGDOM OF MERCIA 700 words
15. THE KINGDOM OF ESSEX. 300 words
16. THE KINGDOM OF SUSSEX. 200 words
17. THE KINGDOM OF WESSEX. 1,600 words
18. EGBERT. 200 words
19. ETHELWOLF. 1,200 words
20. ETHELBALD AND ETHELBERT. 200 words
21. ETHERED 500 words
22. ALFRED. 3,000 words
23. EDMUND. 200 words
24. EDRED 800 words
25. EDWY 600 words
26. EDGAR 900 words
27. EDWARD THE MARTYR 100 words
28. ETHELRED 2,100 words
29. EDMOND IRONSIDE 400 words
30. CANUTE 900 words
31. HAROLD HAREFOOT 200 words
32. HARDICANUTE 400 words
33. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR 2,400 words
34. HAROLD 3,600 words
35. THE ANGLO-SAXON GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS. 4,900 words
36. WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. 8,800 words
37. WILLIAM RUFUS. 4,700 words
38. HENRY I. 5,600 words
39. STEPHEN. 2,600 words
40. HENRY II. 10,600 words
41. HENRY II. 9,300 words
42. RICHARD I. 6,600 words
43. JOHN. 10,400 words
44. THE FEUDAL AND ANGLO-NORMAN GOVERNMENT AND MANNERS. 7,900 words
45. NOTES. 700 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Bishop
• Charlemagne
• Epithet
• Glorious Revolution
• Money
• Waverley (novel)

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