Publisher's Synopsis
A collection of short stories translated into Latin by the renown Latin scholar Arcadius Avellanus. Stories include: Mount-Hope by E. P. Prentice The King of the Golden River by John Ruskin The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer-Lytton The Sire de Maletroit's Door by Robert Louis Stevenson