When Odysseus goes off to fight the Trojan War, his wife Penelope manages to keep over a hundred suitors at bay. When Odysseus comes home, he kills her suitors and - curiously - twelve of her maids. What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to? This book sets out to provide an answer to an ancient mystery.

Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love poems.

Five people: four are living, three are strangers, two are sisters, one is dead. This book introduces five characters and traces their intersecting lives.

Regarded as one of the finest short story writers in America - this volume presents her collected works 'A voice like no one else's: funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute' - SUSAN SONTAG

Condemned to shoulder the world, for ever, by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then, he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden. This work addresses difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion in the myth of Atlas and Heracles.

Another Fine Myth.