A SECOND TREASURY OF THE WORLD’S GREAT LETTERS, a mixed mailbag including imitate exchanges and cycles of correspondence by famed men and women of history and arts, selected, edited, integrated, with historical settings and biographical backgrounds and consequences, by Wallace Brockway & Bart Keith Winer together with a prefatory note by Lincoln Schuster, New York Simon and Schuster MCMXLI, printed in1941.This item is a book6 1/2" by 9 1/2" 636 page hardcover copy. NOTE: This book is in ROUGHT condition with some soiling and rubbing of the covers and spine, previous owner’s name is written inside, the pages have a little bit of sun stain, the covers are starting to come loose from the binding, the last to pages have a tear close to the binding of aprox. 1 ½” but the rest of the pages are clean and readable I have not seen any writing on the pages. This is a heavy bulky volume and will be shipped USPS Media Mail. Chapters include: in praise of letters, list of illustrations, foreword by M. Lincoln Schuster ,litters of log ago, Cicero and Caesar: a fatal friendship, Seneca denounces the modern treatment of slaves and urges a return to human way of the old Romans, the younger Pliny describes the death of his uncle during an eruption of Vesuvius, Lucius Verus warns Marcus Aurelius against treachery, and Marcus returns a philosopher’s answer, saint Patrick Excoriates a barbaric king for slaughtering and enslaving the Christian of Ireland, Sidonius Limns the portrait of a Roman Sycophant, and much, much more.This book does not have illustrations. Thanks for Looking. L30/2.12.0/912 DON’T FORGET TO CHECK OUR STORE, WE HAVE A GOOD SELECTION OF BOOKS AND VINTAGE POSTCARDS FOR A VERY GOOD PRICE AND WE SELL BOOKS BY LOTS TOO. Powered by eCRATER . List your items fast and easy and manage your active items.
