THE NATIONAL REVIEW TREASURY OF CLASSIC CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Selected BY WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. This wonderful collection opens a treasure chest containing some of the most precious gems of American children ' s literature, originally published in St. Nicholas Magazine. National Review has rediscovered and polished these literary jewels, in many cases forgotten over the decades, so that they …
Virgil's great epic transforms the Homeric tradition into a triumphal statement of the Roman civilizing mission. Translated by Robert Fitzgerald. About the author: Virgil (70 B.C-19 B.C) is regarded as the greatest Roman poet, known for his epic, The Aeneid (written about 29 B.C. unfinished). Virgil was born on October 15, 70 B.C., in a small village near Mantua in Northern Italy. He attended …
About the book: The ancient muse of the golden age of Roman literature has stirred once more, this time within the mind of Claudio Salvucci, native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but with roots that extend back to his ancestral home in ancient Latium. A student of the classics from his earliest years, the author has crafted a work which builds upon the fragmentary record of the founding of …