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Jay Trott

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in Danbury, The United States

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https://true-north-books.com/

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Fiction, Humor and Comedy, Contemporary

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Austen, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Sterne

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Jay Trott is an author of novels, essays, and poetry, as well as an audiobook producer. He and his wife Beth live in the fierce New Hampshire woods, where they love to take long walks on the beach and listen to Bach. They have four children and eight grandchildren.

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A Roman Message in a Bottle

I find myself, at this late date, reading Cicero’s letters, which I am very ashamed to say I never bothered to look at before.

They are written with wonderful style and intelligence, as all acknowledge. Possibly more important, however, is their import. The ones I have been reading were written during the dissolution of the republic and the establishment of the dictatorship.

This makes the letters i Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 21, 2019 16:19 • Tags: cicero-republic-freedom

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