The Letters of the Younger Pliny : Penguin Classics

A prominent lawyer and administrator, Pliny (c. AD 61-113) was also a prolific letter-writer, who numbered among his correspondents such eminent figures as Tacitus, Suetonius and the Emperor Trajan, as well as a wide circle of friends and family. His lively and very personal letters address an astonishing range of topics, from a deeply moving account of his uncle-s death in the eruption that engulfed Pompeii, to observations on the early Christians - -a desperate sort of cult carried to extravagant lengths- - from descriptions of everyday life in Rome, with its scandals and court cases, to Pliny-s life in the country.