Lavinia – rescued from near oblivion

Another in the series of – “isn’t it time we looked at the story from someone else’s standpoint”. I haven’t read “Lavinia” and probably won’t, but any book which draws from someone who has the comment “If you haven’t read The Aeneid, you will want to after this”, must be worthy of consideration.

Lavinia B y Ursula le Guin

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

paperback; 288 pp.;

Virgil opens his epic of t...

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