Read here
John Robinson · 1826 · Scanned text
193,376 words · about 13 h 33 min to read
Scanned text — may contain errors · view original scans
Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1826, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/34031314); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
Text from Library of Congress, read from page scans by OCR and set out for reading on screen; no words of the book are rewritten or summarized. How RedLectern is built
Choose the page appearance that feels comfortable to read.
Pages: use Left/Right arrows or Page Up/Page Down. Space moves forward; Shift+Space moves back. On touch screens, swipe sideways to turn a page. Scroll keeps ordinary vertical scrolling.
Contents opens chapter and bookmark navigation. [ and ] move to the previous or next chapter. Escape closes an open tool. Press ? to open this help. A footnote opens its source note; Return to passage restores your place.
Read along: K plays or pauses the narration. N goes back to the narration after you scroll away. H plays from the passage you are reading.
No bookmarks yet.
PRESEIS'TKU BT
Invasion of Julius Caesar.
Vortigern and Rowena.
The opening of the book is shown; the full text loads in the reader.
Loading the full text…
You’ve reached the end of Hume and Smollett's celebrated History of England, from its first settlement to the year 1760..