Today's installment concludes The Gunpowder Plot,our selection from What the Gunpowder Plot Was by Samuel R. Gardiner published in 1897.If you
Fawkes Reveals the Plan
First they hired the house at Westminster, of one Ferres, and having his house they sought then to make a mine under the Upper House of
King Orders Fawkes to be Tortured
If he will not otherwise confess," the King had ended by saying, "the gentler tortures are to be first used unto him.”Continuing The Gunpowder
Fawkes Collects the Explosives
Though Fawkes kept silence as to the mine, he did not keep silence on the desperate character of the work on which he had been engaged.Continuing
The Gunpowder Plot
This series has five easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Guy Fawkes’ Confession.IntroductionIf successful, this plot would have
The Secret of Cervantes’ Success
A satire survives only so long as the person or the thing satirized is remembered. But Don Quixote lives, and, by a miracle of genius, keeps Amadis
Comparing the Book “Don Quixote” to Other Books of the Period
It was to do battle with this brood of fabled monsters, against whom the pulpit and the parliament had preached and legislated in vain, that Cervantes
The Book “Don Quixote’s” Theme
Never was a satire like this, which leaves us full of love and sympathy for the object. And why cannot we believe the author when he avers that never
Critical and Public Reception of the Book “Don Quixote”
Nothing like it had ever appeared before. It was an epoch-marking book, if ever there was one. The proud and happy author himself spoke of his success