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Alexander the Great
Jacob Abbott
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Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks.
Alexander the Great is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone.
Alexander the Great was one of the most successful military commanders in history, and was undefeated in battle. By the time of his death, he had conquered most of the world known to the ancient Greeks.
Alexander the Great is one of many biographies aimed at young people written by Jacob Abbott and his brother. The biographies are written in such a way that makes them appealing and easily accessible to everyone.
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The loaded wagons.
The Thracian forces had assembled in the defiles, [Pg 61]with other troops from the northern countries, to arrest Alexander's march, and he had some difficulty in repelling them. They had got, it is said, some sort of loaded wagons upon . . . Read More
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I would say that this is the best book that I have read up to date in this year. The author was quite successful in bringing about the chronological events of Alexander, right from his birth to his death, in very simple English, that could be understood by people who yearn to learn about history,...more
This was very interesting. I had no idea that Alexander was such an unpleasant person on top of being the conqueror of just about the whole known world. The only decent people, as far as I could tell, were the old general he had murdered on what appears to be an utterly ridiculous pretext, and Da...more
Originally published in 1876, Jacob Abbott's biography tracks the rise and moral fall of Alexander the Great. Suitable for middle school.
Moral of the story: don't get drunk and kill your friends. Aside from the unusual grammar lessons, it was a good general review of Alexander the Great's conquests and demise.
nothing to say I read it to learn about Alexander 3
Alexander earned well the name and reputation of the Great.
One cannot help applauding the extraordinary energy of his genius, though at times it feels like one shall condemn the selfish and cruel ends to which his life was devoted.
For me, i would consider him a robber. Robber on so vast a scale,...more
While this isn't a page-turner, it wasn't a grind. There was a see-saw of "I knew this" and "Didn't know that" facts. I knew that Aristotle was Alexander's tutor. I didn't know that Demosthenes was a vociferous enemy of Philip of Macedon and of Alexander.
Rank and file is a familiar phrase, but i...more
Alexander was a great man in everything but his character which deteriorated in the later part of his years. He even died a common death. The book exposes the reader to the historical facts of Alexander's life in an interesting way and the ones that were more of a legend were inconspicuously stat...more
Greatness comes at a price. This is what we can learn from the biography of Alexander the Great by Jacob Abbott, if we only had one short sentence to review the book. There are many biographies written about Alexander the Great and each has a different focus. Jacob Abbott decided to keep it relat...more