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050 4 _aDG
100 1 _aÀ Beckett, Gilbert Abbott,
_d1811-1856
245 1 4 _aThe Comic History of Rome
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2011
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Comic_History_of_Rome
500 _aRelease date is 2011-10-07
508 _aProduced by Margo Romberg, crana and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"The Comic History of Rome" by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett is a humorous work published in 1851. This satirical take on ancient Roman history spans from Rome's foundation to Julius Caesar's assassination, featuring illustrations by John Leech. Through deliberately anachronistic imagery—senators in top hats, Victorian-styled patricians—the work lampoons both ancient Rome and contemporary Victorian society. The collaboration between À Beckett's text and Leech's witty illustrations creates a comic mirror reflecting the social and political tensions of 1850s England through the lens of Roman history. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aWit and humor, Pictorial
653 _aRome -- History -- Humor
700 1 _aLeech, John,
_d1817-1864
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37657
999 _c78497
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