Our Young Folks' Plutarch
Author(s): Rosalie Kaufman
Genre(s): Biography
Narrators: April Walters, Mary Schneider, MaryAnn, Owen Cook, Jim Locke, JackMon, Maggie Travers, Larry Wilson, Dave Gillespie, Kalynda, ToddHW, Rachelrw, Kathrine Engan, Catherine Burke-Mueller, Louise Meany
Number of Chapters: 51
Length: 18 hours and 40 minutes
Language: English
Plutarch's Lives is a series of fifty biographies of famous Greek and Roman men written around 100 AD. In Our Young Folks' Plutarch, Rosalie Kaufman has adapted these biographies for young readers. In the preface she writes, “The lives which we here present in a condensed simple form are prepared from those of Plutarch. Plutarch says, ‘It must be borne in mind that my design is not to write histories, but lives.’ This is why anecdotes, short sayings or a word or two of repartee are frequently recorded. For they furnish a better insight into the thoughts and character of a man than his most glorious exploit, famous siege, or bloody battle. So it is lives, and not a history, that we offer; this must be borne in mind when some of the most important events the world has ever known receive insufficient mention.”