The new Lucian
Subtitle: being a series of dialogues of the dead
By: by H.D. Traill
Edition: Rev. and enl. ed.
Series: Harvard College Library preservation microfilm program 2006 -- 12494
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Published: 1900
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Imaginary conversations
Other titles: Dialogues of the dead
Description: In the summer of 1980 before she starts junior high school in Santa Rosa, California, Tracy, who was adopted from Vietnam when she was six years old, finds an old ammo box with a dog tag and picture that bring up painful memories for both her Vietnam-veteran father and her.
Notes: "Of the fifteen dialogues included in this volume, nine are reprints [with revisions] ... from the original edition of ... 1884"--Note, p. [vii].
Table of contents: title: Gladstone and Gordon; title: Lord Westbury and Bishop Wilberforce; title: Parnell and Butt; title: Lucian and Pascal; title: Wilkes and Lord Sandwich; title: Tennyson and Virgil; title: The Comte de Chambord and Philippe Égalité; title: Plato and Landor; title: Peter the Great and Alexander II; title: Johnson and Coleridge; title: Beaconsfield and Peel; title: Fielding and Richardson; title: Edmund Burke and Edward Horsman; title: Napoleon I., Michelet, and Renan; title: Lucretius, Paley, and Darwin.