In her novel Lavinia , celebrated author Ursula LeGuin gives lyrical voice to her title character: the daughter of mythical King Latinus and the woman fated to cause The Aeneid 's culminating war. This lushly detailed account of ancient Italian ritual and daily life, which was named a 2008 Best Book...
This morning over my first cup of coffee I read Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness ; and then Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird . I decided to read The Three Musketeers before jumping in the shower. This delightful book reduces most of the canon of "Western Literature" into a series...