Once upon a time . . . Fantasy and enchantment await you in this
beautifully illustrated treasury which features the best-loved fairy and folk tales from the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, The Arabian Nights, and other ...
Aesop's Fables features more than 200 fables, specially selected for young readers and beautifully illustrated
with engravings and color plates by Arthur Rackham, Walter Crane, and Ernest Griset. It includes all of the classic fables whose titles and morals have ...
First collected nearly a millennium ago, these folktales are presented as stories that the beautiful Scheherazade
tells her husband, King Shahryar, over 1001 consecutive nights. They include some of the best-known legends of eastern storytelling: "The Seven Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor," ...
In the 1920s and '30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that
fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft's tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the ...
Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of the civilized life, young Huck
Finn fakes his death and, with the help of his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi River. Yet life ...
The victim of betrayal by friends and an insidious plot to hide another's perfidy, innocent young
sailor Edmond Dantes is imprisoned for life at the island fortress of the Chateau d'If. After fourteen years, he makes a harrowing escape and works his ...
A landmark of world literature, The Divine Comedy tells of the poet Dante's travels through
Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in search of salvation. Before he is redeemed by his love for the heavenly Beatrice, he learns the meaning of evil, ...
Chinese culture is rich with marvelous folklore, and this exquisitely designed collection draws on that
magnificent historical repository. It features more than 200 fables and tales chosen from Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio and other classic compendiums. Here are ...
