Category: Historical Novels

The Story of Alexander

Once upon a time a king reigned over the land of Egypt, whose name was Anectanabus. In his time that land was the richest in the world, and its people were wise and happy; but Anectanabus was the wisest and the noblest of them, and under his rule all men, both great and small,...

Chapters

38. CHAPTER XX. HOW ALEXANDER CAME TO HIS LIFE’S END AND WAS BURIED,

Furthermore after the descent of Alexander into the sea, messengers came from Susa with the word that the king of Babylon, Nabuzardan, had refused the tribute that he ought to p...

36. CHAPTER XVIII. HOW ALEXANDER SLEW PORUS AND WON BACK THE WIFE OF

After these things the host of the Greeks and the Persians and the Indians was gathered together, in one place, and messengers came from all the kings of the land to it to Alexa...

37. CHAPTER XIX. TELLS HOW ALEXANDER DEFEATED GOG AND MAGOG, HOW HE

Candoyl and Alexander rode from the city out into the open country, and all day passed through it, till as the sun went down they came near the hills, and they found there a cav...

32. CHAPTER XIV. HOW ALEXANDER AND HIS ARMY PASSED THROUGH THE VALLEY

Many hundred years before, one of the great heroes of the Greeks, Hercules by name, had come into India, and had conquered the people of the land, and had set up great pillars o...

31. CHAPTER XIII. HOW ALEXANDER AND HIS MEN PASSED THE NIGHT OF FEAR,

Within a month came tidings that Porus had gathered together another army, and would wage war with Alexander, for the hosts that had been on the march to him were there, and tho...

20. CHAPTER II. OF OLYMPIAS AND ANECTANABUS, OF THE MAGIC HE WROUGHT,

It fell on a day that as Anectanabus was travelling through the land of Macedon, he came to the chief city of the land, and there his yeomen took lodging for him, and he thought...

28. CHAPTER X. HOW ALEXANDER DEFEATED THE PERSIANS, AND HOW HE WENT TO

Now for the first time the armies of the Macedonians and the Persians came in face of each other, and hopes of victory were on either side, for the Persians were many, and their...

35. CHAPTER XVII. HOW ALEXANDER CAME TO THE TREES OF THE SUN AND THE

Howbeit Alexander made no sign to them of his joy, for he seemed not to believe the old men, and he said: “Have I spread the might of my name from the East even unto the West to...

34. CHAPTER XVI. HOW ALEXANDER PASSED THROUGH THE LAND OF DARKNESS AND

Few days after Alexander and his army entered into a plain full of fair flowers and trees. Now the trees of this land were fruitful and bore all manner of food for man, and amon...

26. CHAPTER VIII. TELLS HOW DARIUS THE EMPEROR SENT PRESENTS TO

But it fell that some of them of Tyre had fled into the court of Darius, and they complained to him of their city destroyed, and “all this,” said they, “we suffered because we o...

33. CHAPTER XV. HOW THE BRAHMANS CAME TO KING ALEXANDER AND WHAT HE

Now the tale tells that by this time the army was encamped near the great river of India, the river Ganges. The river was very broad so that men could just see across it from on...

22. CHAPTER IV. TELLS OF THE EMBASSY OF DARIUS, OF THE DEATH OF PHILIP,

The tale tells that on a day men told in Macedon that an embassy from the Emperor of the World, Darius of Persia, was drawing near; and the whole city came out, men, women, and...

21. CHAPTER III. HOW ALEXANDER TAMED THE HORSE BUCEPHALUS, AND HOW HE

So it was that there was at this time a certain prince in the land of Cappadocia, and in the night as he lay sleeping a vision came to him, and it seemed that his room was fille...

27. CHAPTER IX. TELLS HOW ALEXANDER DESTROYED THEBES AND HOW IT WAS

The tale tells that when the messengers of Darius departed, loaded with rich presents, to carry the message of Alexander to their lord, Alexander and his host set out on their h...

30. CHAPTER XII. HOW ALEXANDER MARRIED ROXANA, THE DAUGHTER OF THE

Then came messengers to Alexander bringing word that Darius lay in his palace nigh death, and that there was no man among the Persians who might give orders or make head against...

29. CHAPTER XI. TELLS OF THE BATTLE BETWEEN ALEXANDER AND DARIUS, AND

But Alexander had ridden out into the night, and knew not at first in what direction he was riding, but soon, when the lights borne by the mounted men began to scatter over the...

23. CHAPTER V. HOW ALEXANDER GATHERED AN ARMY TOGETHER: HOW HE BUILT

As to the giving in marriage of the daughter of Darius, the Emperor of Persia, it is to be told that on a set day the wise men of the land came before him, and the painter broug...

24. CHAPTER VI. TELLS OF THE FORAY OF KADESH, AND OF ITS ENDING, AND OF

Now the chief of the band he sent was Meleager, one of Alexander’s most valiant knights, and he had with him five hundred lances and their men-at-arms. His orders were to ride t...

25. CHAPTER VII. HOW ALEXANDER CAME TO JERUSALEM, HOW THE BISHOP MET

When the word was brought to Jerusalem that Tyre was taken, and that Alexander was on the march towards the city to punish it for its disobedience, there was heavy grief and woe...

19. CHAPTER I. HOW ANECTANABUS WAS KING OF EGYPT, AND WHY HE FLED INTO

Once upon a time a king reigned over the land of Egypt, whose name was Anectanabus. In his time that land was the richest in the world, and its people were wise and happy; but A...

12. CHAPTER XIII. HOW ALEXANDER AND HIS MEN PASSED

16. CHAPTER XVIII. HOW ALEXANDER SLEW PORUS AND

17. CHAPTER XIX. TELLS HOW ALEXANDER DEFEATED

11. CHAPTER XII. HOW ALEXANDER MARRIED ROXANA,

14. CHAPTER XV. HOW THE BRAHMANS CAME TO KING

5. CHAPTER V. HOW ALEXANDER GATHERED AN ARMY

8. CHAPTER VIII. TELLS HOW DARIUS THE EMPEROR

6. CHAPTER VI. TELLS OF THE FORAY OF KADESH, AND

9. CHAPTER IX. TELLS HOW ALEXANDER DESTROYED

13. CHAPTER XIV. HOW ALEXANDER AND HIS ARMY

15. CHAPTER XVII. HOW ALEXANDER CAME TO THE TREES

3. CHAPTER III. HOW ALEXANDER TAMED THE HORSE

4. CHAPTER IV. TELLS OF THE EMBASSY OF DARIUS,

7. CHAPTER VII. HOW ALEXANDER CAME TO JERUSALEM,

1. CHAPTER I. HOW ANECTANABUS WAS KING OF EGYPT,

2. CHAPTER II. OF OLYMPIAS AND ANECTANABUS, OF THE

10. CHAPTER X. HOW ALEXANDER DEFEATED THE PERSIANS,

18. CHAPTER XX. HOW ALEXANDER CAME TO HIS LIFE’S