The Christmas city: Bethlehem across the ages

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,…

The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original

Homer

The work presented here is a prose rendering of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey, produced by the…