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Archeologist Martin Padway is visiting Rome in Italy. He is struck by lightning and catapulted back to Rome of the sixth century A.D. The Western Roman Empire has fallen to the Goths, and civilization teetering on the brink of falling into the Dark Ages.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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- Author
- L. Sprague De Camp
- First published
- 1941
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Del Rey, Pyramid Books, H. Holt and Company
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Polish, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780671877361
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Lyon Sprague de Camp — known as L. Sprague de Camp — was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. - Wikipedia
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