Our Young Folks' Plutarch
Author: first_name: Rosalie
last_name: Kaufman
Language: English
Year: 1884

Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In <i>Our Young Folks' Plutarch</i>, Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers.  In the preface she writes, “The lives which we here present in a condensed simple form are prepared from those of Plutarch. Plutarch says, ‘It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives.’  This is why anecdotes, short sayings or a word or two of repartee are freq