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At the Tabard Inn, thrity travelers of widely varying classes and occupations are gathering to make the annual pilgrimage to Becket's shrine at Canterbury. It is agreed that each traveler will tell four tales to help pass the time, and that the host of the inn will judge the tales and reward the best storyteller with a free supper upon their return.

A biography of the English poet focusing on the map, the poet, and the age in which he lived.

"The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation"-- "The greatest literary landmark of antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017―revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was “fresh, unpretentious...

Presents a translation of the Anglo-Saxon poem recounting the story of Beowulf's battle with the monster, Grendel.

As Robyn Arianrhod shows in this new biography, the most complete to date, Thomas Harriot was a pioneer in both the figurative and literal sense. Navigational adviser and loyal friend to Sir Walter Ralegh, Harriot--whose life was almost exactly contemporaneous to Shakespeare's--took part in the first expedition to colonize Virginia in 1585. Not only was he responsible for getting Ralegh's ships safely to harbor in the New World, he was also the first...

Life after Lord Sacher is far from easy, as the Hunters' next assignmnet pits them against a magic carpenter whose latest creation has a murderous appetite. Can the gang whip this abominable beast into submission--or will they suffer the sting of defeat?

"Oh the Moon is a collection of illustrated, interconnected short stories and anecdotes from actress, comedian, musician, and writer Charlyne Yi. The mix of comedy, fantastic settings, and genuine feeling places the book between Demetri Martin and Shel Silverstein"--

Presents the complete short fiction of nineteenth-century Irish author Oscar Wilde, including fairy tales, ghost stories, mysteries, and comedies of manners, and includes an introductory essay that examines Wilde's life and work.