Antigone raises issues of law and morality that are just as relevant today as they were more than two thousand years ago. Whether this is your first reading or your twentieth, Antigone will move you as few pieces of literature can.

Husain Haddawy's critically acclaimed Arabian Nights, based on Muhsin Mahdi's landmark reconstruction of the earliest extant version. This book has a collection of 35 tales from the 'Nights.'

A rich source for students of Greek mythology and literature, the Homeric hymns are also fine poetry.

Taming the beast : Bluebeard and other monsters -- Epilogue : getting even -- Appendixes -- A. Six fairy tales from the Nursery and household tales, with commentary -- B. Selected tales from the first edition of the Nursery and household ...

Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own.

Twenty-six classic fairy tales are supplemented by extensive literary, cultural, and historical commentary. America is in decline.

A user-friendly edition for the student reading Homer in the original Greek

A delight to read, The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm presents these peerless stories to a whole new generation of readers.

Its coverage of comparative and interpretative approaches as well as evidencefrom art and archeology is expanded in this edition.

In this book, first published in 2000, the synthesis of his mature understanding of the process beginning around 14,000 years ago challenges ecological and materialist interpretations, arguing for a quite different kind of understanding ...