Mayne, William

Twenty-two poems and stories retelling heroic deeds from the folk literature of many countries. Includes the anonymous Hynd Horn, The Revenge by Lord Tennyson, The Courtship of Lemminkainen retold by William Mayne, and Horatius by Lord Macaulay.

The powers of a strange red stone in the possession of a girl from another era make the past, present, and future a vague, changing, and dangerous mixture for three children journeying over the moor to visit their grandmother.