Excerpt from John Winterbourne's Family The two men before the fire sat there with a little table between them, on it a black book and an unlighted lamp. The book was the Idyls of Theocritus. John Winterbourne was a scholar of richer equipment than his friend, and he was accustomed to sit here and read Greek aloud, while Lovell, with a frowning brow and great excitement, followed from another copy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.