A collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in sections on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths. Includes a brief section on Norse mythology.

"With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse translation with facing-page Italian combines maximum...

"In the two volumes of The blue and the gray Henry Steele Commager has presented the story of the Civil War in the words of those who fought it. He has evoked the collective memory of that whole generation -- the Federals and the Confederates, the officers and the privates, the soldiers and the civilians -- to re-create the war in all its aspects as it appeared to those who participated in it. Here are the generals who planned the campaigns and the...

"This extraordinary volume brings together the first three novels written by Africa-Americans in the 1850s: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglass's powerful fictional account of an actual mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole in 1841...Clotel, a provocative expose of slavery by William Wells Brown, who was himself a fugitive slave...and the penetrating and eloquent Our Nig, which focuses on the struggles of one young woman to achieve economic independence...