Romulus founded Rome - but why does the myth give him a twin brother Remus, who is killed at the moment of the foundation? This mysterious legend has been oddly neglected. Roman historians ignore it as irrelevant to real history; students of myth concentrate on the more glamorous mythology of Greece. In this book, Professor Wiseman provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of all the variants of the story, and a historical explanation for its origin and development. His conclusions offer important new insights, both into the history and ideology of pre-imperial Rome and into the methods and motives of myth-creation in a non-literate society. In the richly unfamiliar Rome of Pan, Hermes and Circe the witch-goddess, where a general grows miraculous horns and prophets demand human sacrifice, Remus stands for the unequal struggle of the many against the powerful few.

Brer Fox, Brer Rabbit, and their animal friends populate a series of stories collected on a Georgia plantation during the Civil War.

Tom Malloy, a first year student at the elite Van Loring Latin College, a school strictly for pre-med and pre-law students with extremely high IQ's and almost perfect SAT scores, is accused of murdering his professor of criminology. All the professors of this College incidentally are considered the most brilliant world-wide, members of the high IQ organization known as the Cerebralists. Harold Goldberg, the student's attorney; Ernie Barnes, private investigator; John Mirabella, Chief of Homicide Detectives; and Carl Wells, Prosecutor, all play key roles in this murder mystery, as do the college professors and the administrative personnel. Mrs. Elizabeth Arliss enters the story as the comic relief in a way, as her testimony at the trial brings the gallery to a standing ovation. Whether Tom Malloy is the murderer or not remains the mystery until the end. The chapters preceding the crime detail the planning of the murders and the working of two separate minds intent on accomplishing the same objective - the perfect murder. This book is a page turner, thrilling, and suspenseful up to the very end with the defense attorney and the prosecutor attempting to outwit one another before a judge who refuses to tolerate their shenanigans.

For more than a hundred years, the tales of Joel Chandler Harris have entertained and influenced both readers and writers. Nights with Uncle Remus gathers seventy-one of Harris's most popular narratives, featuring African American trickster tales, etiological myths, Sea Island legends, and chilling ghost stories. Told through the distinct voices of four slave storytellers, indispensable tales like "The Moon in the Mill-Pond" and other Brer Rabbit stories have inspired writers from Mark Twain to William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston to Toni Morrison, and helped revolutionize modern children's literature and folktale collecting. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.