Author: LUCIAN.
Title: Satirical Sketches. (Translated by Paul Turner).
Description: Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968. The Penguin Classics series. "This selection has been made to present him [Lucian] primarily as a humorous writer. Yet Eunapius truly wrote that Lucian 'was a man who made very serious efforts to be funny'; indeed the propaganda and hypocrisy of the modern world coul benefit from his style of sardonic realism." Pp.320, slight toning to pages. Paperback, scuffing to spine edge. G+.

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