Antonina

Wilkie Collins

• Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9783849658014
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Historical Fiction
• Index: Literature

In 'Antonina, or The Fall of Rome', Mr. Collins reproduces in very vivid and gorgeous colors the striking and important events that marked the first steps in the decline of the Roman power. The period affords ample scope to a fertile imagination and a brilliant fancy. We have before us Rome in all its luxury, refinement, and depravity, we watch the spread of the moral gangrene that has eaten into its heart's core. We would direct the attention of our readers particularly to the description and details of the famine while making its grand strides through the devoted city as one of the most powerful and masterly chapters of the book. The story abounds with passages of surpassing beauty and striking eloquence, and we are presented with a succession of artistically arranged scenes, portrayed with all the exuberant fancy of a poet and all the brilliant prismatic coloring of a painter. This book has a powerful attraction to the lovers of imaginative literature and there is a charm about the story which has ensured its popularity and success.

Table of contents

• GOISVINTHA.
• THE COURT.
• ROME.
• THE CHURCH.
• ANTONINA.
• AN APPRENTICESHIP TO THE TEMPLE.
• THE BED-CHAMBER.
• THE GOTHS.
• THE TWO INTERVIEWS.
• THE RIFT IN THE WALL.
• GOISVINTHA'S RETURN.
• THE PASSAGE OF THE WALL.
• THE HOUSE IN THE SUBURBS.
• THE FAMINE.
• THE CITY AND THE GODS.
• LOVE MEETINGS.
• THE HUNS.
• THE FARM-HOUSE.
• THE GUARDIAN RESTORED.
• THE BREACH REPASSED.
• FATHER AND CHILD.
• THE BANQUET OF FAMINE.
• THE LAST EFFORTS OF THE BESIEGED.
• THE GRAVE AND THE CAMP.
• THE TEMPLE AND THE CHURCH.
• RETRIBUTION.
• THE VIGIL OF HOPE.
• THE CONCLUSION. 'UBI THESAURUS IBI COR.'