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📚 Stories from the Aeneid: Retold from Virgil (Told Through the Ages series)
Author: H.L. Havell, B.A. (Scholar and Lecturer in English, University of Halle; formerly Scholar of University College, Oxford)
Original Author: Virgil
Illustrator: Black and white plates (including frontispiece "The Lament for Icarus")
Publication Date: July 1927 reprint (first published December 1906; reprinted October 1908, February 1909, November 1913, August 1917, June 1920, October 1922)
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, Bombay, Sydney
Format: Small hardcover with brown cloth binding, elaborate gilt Art Nouveau decoration to covers and spine (185 x 125 mm approx.)
ISBN: None (pre-ISBN era)
Condition: Good. Age tanning, foxing to page edges. Corners and spine showing wear commensurate with age. Binding sound

🔍 Synopsis
A masterful retelling of Virgil's epic Aeneid for young readers, chronicling Trojan hero Aeneas's seven-year voyage from burning Troy to founding Rome. Havell skillfully adapts the twelve books of Virgil's Latin masterwork into engaging narrative: the fall of Troy, Aeneas's doomed love for Queen Dido of Carthage, his descent into the underworld to meet his father Anchises, and the brutal wars in Italy against King Turnus for Lavinia's hand and the right to establish a new homeland. Part of George G. Harrap's prestigious "Told Through the Ages" series, this 232-page volume features photogravure frontispiece and black-and-white plates, a pronouncing list of names, and includes Tennyson's epigraph. Havell's elegant prose preserves Virgil's grandeur while making classical mythology accessible to early 20th-century school readers.

💬 Reviews
"H.L. Havell's retellings in the 'Told Through the Ages' series remain classics of their kind, balancing faithfulness to the originals with readability." – Antiquarian book assessment
"The Harrap 'Told Through the Ages' series in their beautiful gilt-decorated cloth bindings are highly collectible school prize books." – Book trade commentary

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