Lost Civilizations: Ruins, relics, and vanished worlds

The romance of the buried past — archaeology, myth, and the literature of cultures swallowed by time.

In this collection

• Billy Bunny and the Water Snake
• Gone Fishing
• Lost Face
• The Two Kings' Children
• The Susquehannah and the Delaware
• The New Dispensation
• The Merchant's Tale
• Stratford-On-Avon
• The Denver Express
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• The Trippertrots and the Nice Big Dog
• Aquae Sulis
• Hanging by a Thread
• A Man Must Live
• Mr. Pennybaker at Church
• Why the Pope Lived to be so Old
• In the Saddle
• Mr. Wicked Wolf
• The Grand Reception Ball
• The Sunday Bonnet
• Vain and Careless
• An Old Bouquet
• Captain Chap
• The Poplars
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