{"product_id":"men-and-gods-isbn-9781590172636","title":"Men and Gods","description":"This outstanding collection brings together the novelist and scholar Rex Warner’s knack for spellbinding storytelling with Edward Gorey’s inimitable talent as an illustrator in a memorable modern recounting of the most beloved myths of ancient Greece. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWriting in a relaxed and winning colloquial style, Warner vividly recreates the classic stories of Jason and the Argonauts and Theseus and the Minotaur, among many others, while Gorey’s quirky pen-and-ink sketches offer a visual interpretation of these great myths in the understated but brilliantly suggestive style that has gained him admirers throughout the world. These tales cover the range of Greek mythology, including the creation story of Deucalion and Pyrrha, the heroic adventures of Perseus, the fall of Icarus, Cupid and Psyche’s tale of love, and the tragic history of Oedipus and Thebes.\u003ci\u003e Men and Gods\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential and delightful book with which to discover some of the key stories of world literature.“In first place, the stories are beautiful and satisfying in themselves. In the second place, they have deeply affected our own literature.” –Rex Warner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Shakespeare, Shelley, Tennyson and many others got their knowledge of Greek mythology from the often ironical–and always sophisticated–narratives of Ovid…Detail after detail fixes these myths in the memory…The Golden Age of Greece is dim today, but in \u003ci\u003eGods and Men\u003c\/i\u003e the golden apples still shine upon the bough.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rex Warner retells thirty-eight famous myths of ancient Greece that ought to be the intellectual heritage of all the young.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The British critic V. S. Pritchett once described Mr. Warner as ‘the only outstanding novelist of ideas whom the decade of ideas produced.’” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRex Warner\u003c\/b\u003e (1905—1986) was an author, translator, and professor of English. Born  in Birmingham, England, he was educated at Oxford. Warner was a member of the British  Home Guard from 1942 until 1945. He was the Tallman Professor of Classics at Bowdoin  College before joining the English faculty at the University of Connecticut in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdward  Gorey\u003c\/b\u003e (1925–2000) was born in Chicago. He studied briefly at the Art  Institute of Chicago, spent three years in the army testing poison gas,  and attended Harvard College, where he majored in French literature and  roomed with the poet Frank O’Hara. In 1953 Gorey published \u003ci\u003eThe Unstrung Harp\u003c\/i\u003e, the first of his many extraordinary books, which include \u003ci\u003eThe Curious Sofa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Tea-Cosy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Epiplectic Bicycle\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  addition to illustrating his own books, Edward Gorey provided drawings  to countless books for both children and adults. Of these, New York  Review Books has published \u003ci\u003eThe Haunted Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Gothic tales that he selected and illustrated; \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e by H. G. Wells; \u003ci\u003eMen and Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, a retelling of ancient Greek myths by Rex Warner; in collaboration with Rhoda Levine, \u003ci\u003eThree Ladies Beside the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHe Was There from the Day We Moved In\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Unrest-Cure and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of tales by Saki.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300837282021,"sku":"NP9781590172636","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590172636.jpg?v=1767732549","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/men-and-gods-isbn-9781590172636","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}