"When Robert Fagles' translation of the Iliad was published in 1990, critics and scholars alike hailed it as a masterpiece." "Now Robert Fagles presents us with the Odyssey, Homer's best-loved and most accessible poem, recounting the arduous wanderings of Odysseus during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca, after the Trojan War. If the Iliad is the world's greatest war story, then the Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey...

A retelling of the exploits of King Arthur and his knights at the court of Camelot and elsewhere in the land of the Britons.

Due to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may in fact be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral tradition. While scholarship on the subject will likely never definitely prove one way or the other, it is now generally accepted that these two great epic poems are the work of a single Greek author, Homer,...

Fifteen selections from the famous collection of Arabian folktales include "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor."

Fifteen selections from the famous collection of Arabian folktales include "Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp" and "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor."

A collection of 26 tales told by Scheherazade to save herself and other young girls from death at the Sultan's hands.