Robert Holdstock Wood caused a sensation when first published in the mid-eighties. Here was a mythical fantasy adored by the critics and loved by readers of all tastes from an...

Claire Heywood The myth remembers him as a hero.The women who knew him best remember him differently.Now it's time to hear their side of the story . . .***His motherBanished...

Jane Smiley In Iceland, the age of the Vikings is also known as the Saga Age. A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world’s great literary...

Natalie Haynes When you open up, who will you let in?When Alex Morris loses her fiancé in dreadful circumstances, she moves from London to Edinburgh to make a break with...

Robert Graves Nausicaa, a Sicilian princess of the eighth century B.C., looks back on the events of her life and tells how she came to write the epic poem known...

Robert Graves Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge...

Hilary Bailey Re-invents the history of the Trojan Wars and tells a new story of Cassandra. Legend has it that Cassandra died at the hand of Clytemnestra, but in this...

JF Bierlein "Unusually accessible and useful . . . An eye-opener to readers into the universality and importance of myth in human history and culture."--William E. Paden, Chair, Department of...

Roberto Calasso With The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Calasso turned ancient legends into modern literature and created a postmodern novel out of the ancient myths of classical Greece...in Ka, Calasso attempts...

Madeline Miller From the Orange Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author of The Song of Achilles comes the powerful story of the mythological witch Circe, inspired by Homer’s Odyssey.When I was born,...

Ingri Parin D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire "I doubt I would have grown up to be the writer and artist I became had I not fallen in love with D’Aulaire’s Book...

Jennifer Saint The House of Atreus is cursed. A bloodline tainted by a generational cycle of violence and vengeance. This is the story of three women, their fates inextricably tied...