Presents a collection of thirty classic fairy tales by nineteenth-century cobbler and children's author Hans Christian Anderson and includes such works as "The Ugly Duckling," "The Tinderbox," "The Snow Queen," and more.
Presents more than one hundred poems on the joy of loving without fear, by such writers as Billy Collins, Czeslaw Milosz, Seamus Heaney, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, and Goethe.
Presents a prose translation of Virgil's epic poem in which the Trojan hero Aeneas wanders over land and sea after the destruction of his beloved Troy, eventually fulfilling the prophecy that he would lead his people to a new land and found an empire.
Presents retellings of four Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, including the title work about a mermaid who falls in love with a charming--though human--prince.
Presents an anthology of forty-nine short fiction stories, featuring selections from Saul Bellow, Anton Chekhov, Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Mark Twain, and many others.
