The novel “Aurelia”, published in this edition, belongs to the pen of the talented and unfairly forgotten in our time English writer E. Canton. The events described in it date back to the first century of Christianity. The main character of the novel is the legendary Aurelia, a brilliant young patrician of great Rome, who lived in the era of the decline of the empire, during the most severe Christian persecution. A sense of justice and spiritual nobility forces this pampered aristocrat to come to the aid of persecuted supporters of Christianity, thereby plunging them into a whirlpool of dramatic events that time when fanatical paganism tried with all its might to destroy the sprouts of the new faith.