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.'

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

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

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) is rightly regarded as one of the founders of modern anthropology. This volume is the author's own abridgement of his great work, and was first published in 1922.

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

Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths and legends that are the keystone of Western culture -- the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity ...

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

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 ...

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