The secret life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, the greatest lyric poet of ancient Rome, is explored. Catullus was at all times a man in love, desperately, passionately, fatally. His poems embodied the spirit of a world shuddering on its foundations.
In this historical novel, Marcus Caeluis Rufus, a student of Cicero, offers his vision of the last days of the Roman Republic and the establishment of Caesar as emperor. Winner of the 1950 Newbery Award.
"The Lock," though it is a completely independent novel, continues the portrait of the collapsing Roman society of the late Republic so brilliantly depicted in The Key. The principal figures of the age: poets, scholars, soldiers, politicians, powerful political women, even slaves, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Pompey the Great make their appearance and ...
In Search of Homo Sapiens represents the crystallization of the thinking and writing of the Slovak intelligentsia. For the first time the English-speaking world will see the output of some of the most prominent Slovak thinkers and writers, their reflections on contemporary life, world politics, personal lifestyles, and social ideologies. A welcome ...
"Frederic Zeller has written a book about his childhood in Nazi Germany. His story, based, like Anne Frank's, on diaries and notes he kept during those years, is the account of a normal, healthy, intelligent boy growing up in a world where to be a Jew was to be marked as a target for scorn, rage, and eventually, for millions, extermination. Like ...
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