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Apuleius was a 2nd-century Roman writer whose most famous work, The Golden Ass (also known as Metamorphoses), still feels vivid, and surprisingly modern.

It is the only ancient Roman novel in Latin to survive complete.

Inside the novel is also the famous tale of Cupid and Psyche, one of the most beautiful love stories to come down from antiquity.

The Golden Ass is one of the best gateways into the ancient world.

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Our latest newsletter listed a selection of March’s notable and interesting titles. Among them, we can highlight "1066 and All That" by Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman.

It's a comic parody of English history, mocking how schoolchildren misremember facts. It reduces centuries of events to "Good Things," "Bad Things," and memorably mangled kings, battles, and causes — hilariously unreliable by design.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78124/

Cover page Title: 1066 and all that A memorable history of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 good things, 5 bad kings and 2 genuine dates Author: Walter Carruthers Sellar Robert Julian Yeatman Illustrator: John Reynolds Original publication: London: Methuen & Co. LTD, 1930 https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78124/pg78124-images.html
Cover page Title: 1066 and all that A memorable history of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 good things, 5 bad kings and 2 genuine dates Author: Walter Carruthers Sellar Robert Julian Yeatman Illustrator: John Reynolds Original publication: London: Methuen & Co. LTD, 1930 https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78124/pg78124-images.html
Cover page Title: 1066 and all that A memorable history of England, comprising all the parts you can remember, including 103 good things, 5 bad kings and 2 genuine dates Author: Walter Carruthers Sellar Robert Julian Yeatman Illustrator: John Reynolds Original publication: London: Methuen & Co. LTD, 1930 https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/78124/pg78124-images.html

"And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams."

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert was published in 1857. It tells the story of Emma, a doctor’s wife bored with provincial life. She seeks escape through affairs and overspending, leading to ruin. The novel caused scandal but became a major work of French literature.

Madame Bovary at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2413

Emma Bovary and Rodolphe. Composition by Alfred de Richemont, etched by Carlo Chessa for Gustave Flaubert’s novel "Madame Bovary", Paris: A. and F. Ferroud, Librairie des Amateurs, 1905. A woman stands beside a seated man on a sofa, and they hold hands while looking at each other. The man gazes up at her with affection or intensity, while she appears reserved or contemplative. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Madame_Bovary_(roman)?uselang=fr#/media/File:Alfred_de_Richemont_-_Madame_Bovary_-_Emma_Bovary_et_Rodolphe.jpg