This is a story by an Englishman, written originally in French, about a caliph in and around what is currently parts of Arabia, Persia,...

Written some years before the American Revolution by a Member of Parliament, it should come as no surprise that Horace Walpole's work...

Among the most famous images that literature has given rise to – along with the skinny knight charging at windmills on horseback and the...

Everybody knows what "Don Quixote" is about, don't they? Not exactly. The story's basics are among the most famous in all of literature,...

Here's a novel based on historical fact, but which quite obviously includes a lot of fantastical elements that didn't happen – or if they...

For an early example of chivalric literature – a book that no less a figure that Cervantes, author of that classic knightly novel "Don...

We learn that "The Golden Ass" by Lucius Apuleius is the only work of prose fiction to survive in its entirety from ancient Rome. Good...

This story tells of a mysterious princess, her great beauty, her various suitors and how they all make fools of themselves. If it weren't...

When I was a kid, everybody knew about these stories. We saw them on filmstrips in class, we had them as bedtime stories at night, we...