"This new translation brings Virgil's masterpiece newly to life for English-language readers. It's the first in centuries crafted by a translator who is first and foremost a poet, and it is a glorious thing. David Ferry has long been known as perhaps our greatest contemporary translator of Latin poetry, his translations of Virgil's Eclogues and Georgics having established themselves as much-admired standards. He brings to the Aeneid the same genius,...

The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.

Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.

"The stories in this book introduce the reader to the Master of Life who created the world, cheating Spiderman who was caught out by his wife, Thunderbird who brings the storms, wily Coyote and his friends, as well as a whole cast of other characters." "Illustrated with landscape photographs and examples of Native American art and artefacts from many different tribes, these myths bring to life the powerful imagination and story-telling traditions...

In medieval England, eleven-year-old Piers' dream comes true when he becomes page to Parsifal, a peasant whose quest for knighthood reveals important secrets about both of their families.