Standard Selections

Nero gives the Christian Lygia to the young courtier Vinicius—but before she reaches his house, a giant comes to her rescue. In this anthology, that perilous Roman love story is only the first door into a much wider world.

Compiled in 1907 for the classroom and the public platform, Standard Selections brings together poetry, stories, speeches, and scenes from the drama. Robert I. Fulton, Thomas C. Trueblood, and Edwin P. Trueblood range from Dickens and Poe to Lincoln and Dunbar, setting comic voices beside solemn verse, stirring oratory, and moments of high drama. Each piece offers its own change of mood and challenge: a tale to inhabit, a speech to lend your voice to, or a scene to bring alive before an audience. Which selection will take hold when the next page turns?

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