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...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Out of the Woods Again | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan. An engagingly sardonic story of a 5th century Roman bureaucrat doomed to watch from the bogs of Britain the decline & fall of the Roman Empire (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Mar. 2, 1953 | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

...Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan. An engagingly sardonic story of a 5th century bureaucrat doomed to watch from the bogs of Britain the decline & fall of the Roman Empire (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...ALFRED DUGGAN London, England

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

...Little Emperors, by Alfred Duggan. An engagingly sardonic story of a 5th century Roman bureaucrat doomed to watch the decline & fall of the Roman Empire from the bogs of Britain (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, Feb. 2, 1953 | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

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