A Little Latin Reader

Delightful Latin Reader has material that I have have not found elsewhere.I have enjoyed sharing this with friends. Thanks!

Very nice little Latin reader. Good practice for students learning Latin.

Difficult, for colleges, not for high schools, as I have hoped.

This is an excellent reader, but only if you have made enough progress before. I would say it is an upper-intermediate to advanced level reader. For intermediate level I found a parallel text edition more manageable  Fabulae Faciles: Parallel Text Latin - English (Latin Edition)

Beware. I used this book to provide interesting examples of 'real Latin' for a class that had just finished 'Wheelock's Latin' in a second-semester introductory course: though the texts chosen were in fact interesting, I found that I had to spend about 1/3 of my time correcting the astounding number of mistakes the authors made both in explaining the Latin and in placing the texts in their historical contexts. Never again.

I have Dr. English as a professor and she showed us this book. It is great for use in a class or even just reading on one's own. I know I will be reading this book long after class is done and with the longer passages in the back, it is great for keeping practice with the language.

Excellent! A wonderful text series for Latin students.

This is a good Latin examples reader with examples to cover years of study from beginner to more advanced. The snippets are all real examples taken from classical literature (many of the usual suspects here - Caesar, Vergil, Cicero, Livy, Martial, Catullus, Ovid) or from inscriptions/graffiti, which are grouped by grammatical features employed and which increase in difficulty and size as the book progresses. At the end there are a number of longer prose and poetry passages not tied to any particular grammatical feature.It would be able to furnish examples for years of study and would be an ideal classroom companion as a source of examples of real Latin for students to work with, and would also work reasonably well for self-study although the lack of a key is a potential deficiency for the self-learner, and I've found myself struggle with a few even part way into the book.Each piece has its own vocabulary alongside and there is also a glossary at the back. Appendices include biographical sketches of authors, a basic guide on metres of poetry, an introduction to epigraphy, and an index of grammatical features to the pieces employing them.

As a self-learner having reached an intermediate level of latin, I thought I could use this book along with my grammar book to solidify my understanding of grammar, as the book provides small texts (many just one or two sentences), each text with a complete vocabulary juxtaposed to it, organized according to grammatical topic. But I found that even with the help provided texts were often too much work to understand even for me and since they are very short the mere pleasure of reading is not very high either. I think the book is much more relevant for teachers to use in class than for auto-didacts like myself.