Perseus: or, Of dragons

The Evolution of the Dragon

Grafton Elliot Smith

The work is a scholarly compilation of three Rylands Lectures delivered between 1915 and 1918, each…

The Chinese Dragon

L. Newton Hayes

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…