Insula Thesauraria (Treasure Island)

Robinson Crusoe retold in Latin by Francis William Newman, written to make reading practice less tedious for learners. A familiar adventure in clear, readable Latin.

Daniel Defoe

Shakespeare's Roman tragedy translated into Latin verse by Henry Denison in 1856. The play you know, in the language its characters would have spoken.

William Shakespeare

The Latin odes of Garcilaso de la Vega, the Spanish Renaissance poet. A short read of ten pages that shows how Latin stayed alive as a literary language.

Garcilaso de la Vega