Jamaican song and story: Annancy stories, digging sings, ring tunes, and dancing tunes

Jamaica Anansi stories

Martha Warren Beckwith

Martha Warren Beckwith’s Jamaica Anansi Stories is a folkloric anthology that records the oral narratives of…

Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem

This edition presents the Old English heroic saga Beowulf in a modern English translation that strives to…

Grimms' Fairy Tales

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

The collection opens with the familiar German folk narrative of a king’s missing golden apples, a mystery…

Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

Sophocles

This volume presents Sophocles’ Oedipus King of Thebes in a faithful English rhyming‑verse translation,…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)

The volume presents itself as a labor‑of‑love translation of the Arabian Nights, framed by a lengthy preface…

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks

Vatsyayana

The work presented is a nineteenth‑century English translation of Vatsyayana’s Sanskrit treatise on love,…