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Books

Latin · Philosophical letters

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium

Liber Primus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The opening book of Seneca’s Moral Letters to Lucilius, offering practical Stoic reflections on time, friendship, study, mortality, and the disciplined life.

Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium · Liber Primus Open book →
Latin · Graded Latin reader; mythology, classical history, and children's fiction

Julia

Maud Agnes Reed

Julia begins with the adventures of a young British girl who lives by the sea and attends school. Her teacher's stories carry the reader into the worlds of Greek mythology and Roman legend, from Ceres and Persephone to Romulus and Remus, Horatius Cocles, Iphigenia, and Orpheus and Eurydice. Maud Reed wrote the book to make early Latin reading enjoyable, using accessible language that gradually becomes more involved.

Maud Reed, Julia: A Latin Reading Book, 1924. Open book →
Spanish · Literary realism

Olor de cacao

José de la Cuadra

A brief realist story set in a modest Guayaquil café, where an encounter between a man from the cacao-growing countryside and a young waitress evokes poverty, homesickness, compassion, and the remembered cacao groves of coastal Ecuador.

Horno · Guayaquil · 1932 first edition Open book →
Spanish · Literary realism

La Caracola

José de la Cuadra

A gentle, lightly ironic story of an unspoken attachment between Samuel Morales, a montuvio river trader, and a young woman from Guayaquil, told through the recurring call of his conch shell on the Vinces River.

Guásinton · Quito · 1938 first edition Open book →
Russian · Russian rock lyrics

Русский рок

Разные авторы и исполнители

Russian rock songs presented as individual annotated chapters

Annotated collection of Russian rock songs Open book →