"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...

Nabokov's parody, half poem and half commentary on the poem, deals with the escapades of the deposed king of Zemala in a New England college town.

First performed at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark, on December 21, 1879, "A Doll's House" is one of Henrik Ibsen's most famous plays. It is the story of Nora Helmer who has secretly borrowed a large sum of money to help her husband recover from a serious illness, sometime prior to the beginning of the play. Nora who has borrowed this money by forging her father's signature soon fears that her secret will be discovered when her husband, Torvald,...

A monologue about an unnamed female protagonist's awareness of self-realization.

A new translation offers thirteen satirical and fantastic stories of downtrodden characters who are set upon by the powers that be.

Featuring more than 200 tales, this book includes tales such as: "The Sleeping Beauty", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Hansel and Gretel", "Snow White" among others - and many little-known treasures such as "The Juniper Tree", "Clever Gretel", "King Thrushbeard", and "The Singing, Soaring Lark."

Un joven publicista ha utilizado, en una de sus campañas, una fotografía, aparentemente anodina, que lo ha puesto en el punto de mira de un influyente grupo financiero. Se trata de la imagen de un rebaño de ovejas y carneros en un prado: uno de los carneros posee, al parecer, un poder peculiar. La monótona y en absoluto extraordinaria vida del joven, fumador empedernido y recién divorciado, da una insospechada vuelta de tuerca al embarcarse en...