The story of the Trojan War is retold from the abduction of Helen, to the revenge of Achilles and Odysseus's cunning idea for the Trojan horse

The epics of the Trojan War and Ulysses' extraordinary journey are retold in prose

Recounts Odysseus' long journey home from the Trojan War, and the unusual encounters he had with the Sirens, the cyclops Polyphemus, and Circe the enchantress

A collection of twenty-three legends and folktales, including stories of epic heroes, life in the Middle Ages, monsters, animals, and princesses

Persian legends of valor and heroism taken from the first part of Firdausi's Sha-Nama, an epic poem covering the history of Persia through the seventh century

A varied collection of stories from German folk literature includes accounts of such characters as Siegfried, Gudrun, Reineke Fox, and Big Hermel

Barbara Leonie Picard has chosen her own favourite original fairy tales from her many books to form this collection. Here are Count Bertrand, who refuses to listen even to Death; the faun and the woodcutter's daughter, running away together into their other world; and Little Lady Margaret, whofinds happiness in the end by weaving herself into her own tapestry.

When Count Alaric discovers a beautiful woman with no memory on Midsummer's morning, he names her Catherine and makes her his wife, but he learns that she is one of the fairy people and will one day rejoin them if he cannot find some way of showing her alove so perfect it leaves no room for other memories

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Collects stories of courageous women, revenege, strength in battle, legendary heroes, beasts, dwarves, and Viking gods adapted from the Norse tradition.

Collects stories of courageous women, revenege, strength in battle, legendary heroes, beasts, dwarves, and Viking gods adapted from the Norse tradition. (view table of contents)

A contemplative and sensitive young boy, seen by his family to be unfit for the life of a fourteenth century nobleman, is sent to a monastery but he is determined to prove himself worthy of nobility and capable of being a knight. Original.

Scepticism is as much the result of knowledge, as knowledge is of scepticism. To be content with what we at present know, is, for the most part, to shut our ears against conviction; since, from the very gradual character of our education, we must continually forget, and emancipate ourselves from, knowledge previously acquired; we must set aside old notions and embrace fresh ones; and, as we learn, we must be daily unlearning something which it has cost us no small labour and anxiety to acquire.