Gods & Heroes: The deep stories a culture tells about itself

Myths are the oldest literature — the stories humans told to explain the world, the gods, and themselves. Here are the epics and legends at the root of the Western imagination.

In this collection

• Stand and Wait
• The Last Entry
• Dour Davie's Drive
• The Son's Sorrow
• Georgia's Ruling
• A Bird of Passage
• The Two Poets
• 2 Kings 4: 31
• The Golden Apple
• The Transfiguration
• The Melancholy Left
• History Tells Us that Strict Finance has Brought Nations to Security
• The Redhill Sisterhood
• Azélie
• A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson
• Ole Mammy's Torment
• A Proper Trewe Idyll of Camelot
• Mare Liberum
• The White Cockade
• Al-Wali, or "the Holy One"
• Songs of Angus: THE KIRK BESIDE THE SANDS
• Marshall's Mate
• Pabo, the Priest: a Miracle
• The Italy we Want Within, and her Foreign Relations
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