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| Literature by Gaius Petronius — 1910 London |
The Satyricon
1910
Jack Lindsay (translation)
Ralph Straus, London
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The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius
1927
Jack Lindsay (translation)
Fanfrolico Press, London
Hardcover, black and white
This edition is limited to 650 Copies, numbered and signed by the translator, for sale in England and America.
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The Complete Works of Gaius Petronius
1944
Jack Lindsay (translation)
Willey Book Company, New York
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
For the student of social manners, as for the student of colloquial language and idiom, the extant remains of the works of Gaius Petronius are of inestimable value, and, if only on that ground, the loss of the rest of his Satirae is one which every scholar must most deeply regret.
The most important of these extant works of Petronius is the famous episodic novel The Satyricon. The speaker is one Encolpius, narrating the adventures of himself and his boon companions in Southern Italy. The action never pauses; from lecture room to house of ill fame, from country mansion to country tavern, from a harlot's palace to a rich parvenu's table, from ship and shipwreck to a luxurious life of imposture in a wealthy provincial town ... a caustic kaleidoscopic, terrible satire on the decadence and moral turpitude into which Roman society had fallen during the reign of Nero.
In this edition the reader will find passages in verse freely interspersed in the midst of the prose - exactly as found in the original Satirae.
One need only glance cursorily at the illustrations in this volume to appreciate the excellence of Norman Lindsay's technique and his true appreciation and interpretation of the text. He is one of the foremost contemporary English illustrators of books.
The 100 gorgeous, full page illustrations by Norman Lindsay make this edition of Petronius a genuine collector's item.
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The Satyricon
1960
Jack Lindsay (translation)
Elek Books Limited, London
Hardcover, dustjacket, black and white
The Satyricon of Petronius is the only directly realistic novel that has come down to us from the ancient world. Its value as a picture of everyday life under the early Roman Empire is thus unique. But the work itself is far from being merely a dry record of facts. It communicates with masterly force and humour, satire and lyricism, the very feeling of what ancient life was like in all its hurly-burly, its clash of emotions and its problems of making a living. More, in the long account of Trimalchio's dinner it achieves what is perhaps the most sustained piece of humorous character draughtsmanship in all literature. Dickensian is the term that springs to mind, but Shakespearean comes closer to the method and fullness of the picture.
Perhaps it is only the lack of a translation carrying over the vitality and variety, the mingled realism and poetry of the original, which has prevented the book from becoming the universal property that its remarkable qualities deserve. Nowadays there is no longer any need to shrink from its outspoken frankness. In the present translation Mr Jack Lindsay uses all his own experience as a translator and a novelist to bring out the full and racy flavour of the original.
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| FAUNS AND LADIES — 1923 |
Fauns and Ladies
1923
Jack Lindsay
JT Kirtley's Hand-press
Limited edition book of 210 copies.
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| Lysistrata by Aristophanes — 1926 |
Lysistrata
1926
Jack Lindsay (translation)
Fanfrolico Press
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| A Homage to Sappho — 1928 |
A Homage to Sappho
1928
Jack Lindsay (translation)
Fanfrolico Press, London
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| WRITTEN BY JACK LINDSAY |
Life Rarely Tells
1958
Jack Lindsay
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The Roaring Twenties
1960
Jack Lindsay |
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Fanfrolico and After
1962
Jack Lindsay |
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Meetings with Poets
1968
Jack Lindsay |
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Faces and Places
1974
Jack Lindsay |
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| LIONEL LINDSAY |
Comedy of Life: An Autobiography
Lionel Lindsay
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| DARYL LINDSAY |
The Leafy Tree: My Family
Daryl Lindsay
1965
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