Pliny the Younger's Character as Revealed through his Letters

Pliny the Younger's Character as Revealed through his Letters is a Latin reader and grammar review. It is the fourth text in the Latin Alive and Well Series. Lucius Caecilius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) was a Roman author, attorney and administrator who left a collection of hundreds of private letters illustrating public and private life of the Roman Empire during the reigns of Domitian and Trajan. The letters included show Pliny happy in study, distraught over a sick friend, engaged in managing his estates, endowing a school, experiencing the eruption of Vesuvius, addressing administrative issues including those of the Christians. Chapters begin with a list of grammatical forms to be encountered and referenced to ?Compiled Grammar Charts? at the end of the book. Exercise and bridge sentences accomplish a grammar review and introduce letter topics. Specific vocabulary lists accompany each chapter. For common vocabulary there is a glossary at the back of the book.