Orlando
by Virginia Woolf | 
The Hour of the Dragon
by Robert E. Howard | 
Nights At The Circus
by Angela Carter | 
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
by John Steinbeck | 
Beowulf
by Unknown | 
Wise Children
by Angela Carter | 
Phantastes
by George MacDonald | 
The Charwoman's Shadow
by Lord Dunsany | 
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales
by Jack Zipes | 
The Magic Shop
by H. G. Wells | 
The Adventures of Ulysses
by Bernard Evslin | 
The Enchanted Island of Yew
by L. Frank Baum | 
The Wood Beyond the World
by William Morris | 
Walpurgisnacht
by Gustav Meyrink | 
The Robber Bridegroom
by Eudora Welty | 
The Well at the World's End
by William Morris | 
Beowulf
by Robert Nye | 
Flower Fables
by Louisa May Alcott | 
Visitors From Oz
by Martin Gardner | 
A Prisoner in Fairyland
by Algernon Blackwood |
The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic results in his transformation into an ass. After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis. Simultaneously a blend of romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal books of European Literature, of intrinsic interest as a novel in its own right, and one of the earliest examples of the picaresque. It includes as its famous centrepiece the myth of Cupid and Psyche, the search of the human soul for union with the divine, and has been the inspiration for numerous creative works of literature and art since the Renaissance. This new translation is at once faithful to the meaning of the Latin, whilst reproducing all the exuberant gaiety of the original.