Sunshine and Storm in the East - Mrs Brassey

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Sunshine and Storm in the East - Mrs BrasseySunshine and Storm in the East, or Cruises to Cyprus and Constantinople. FIRST EDITION. Longmans, Green, & Co. 1880 Half title, fold. map front. & fold. map at end, plates & illus. Orig. brown cloth, lettered in gilt, dec. in gilt, red and black. Top of spine detached. See picture. The Brasseys (Baroness Annie and her husband Thomas Brassey, 1st Earl Brassey) made several voyages in their steam assisted schooner The Sunbeam during the 1870s and 80s,

Her stormy affair with the poet Catullus - the Western world's first recorded romance with a real and richly characterized woman - had a profound influence on erotic literature

Cropsey interprets seven of Plato's dialogues - "Theaetetus"

which assist the reader in understanding this important work

but who still find the Roman classics too difficult to read with any fluency

Tacitus's other great work

facing a freshly edited Latin text

Front board lightly faded

Foreword by Seamus Heaney

one must question the grounds behind the lack of normal relations that exist between these two NATO members and its effects on the NATO organisation as a whole

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Students of Classics will delight in Andrew Wilson’s sparkling translation

whose creation of the earth and heavens stands as the greatest gift of all

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