"The culmination of a decade of intense engagement with antiquity's most surpassingly beautiful and emotionally complex poetry, Wilson's Iliad now gives us a complete Homer for our generation"--

How did the heroics of a frontier Kansas cattleman and post trader vault him into a commission with the famous Fifth Cavalry and a leading role in the Indian Wars of the 1870s? In 1925, former cowboy, rancher, bullwhacker, Rocky Mountain miner, post-trader, Indian scout, and cavalry officer Col Homer W. Wheeler would write of his many hair-raising adventures on the Plains and Rocky Mountain frontier in his narrative titled, "Buffalo Days: Forty Years...

Relates three stories of young rabbit siblings Flossie, Homer, Henry, Little George, and Baby Sadie as they visit their grandmother, show off their daring stunts, and play house.

"A probing, witty, and deeply insightful history of blindness--in Western culture and literature, and in the author's own experience--that ranges from Homer to Milton to Braille to Stevie Wonder. M. Leona Godin begins her fascinating, wide-ranging study with an exploration of how the idea of sight is inextricably linked with knowledge and understanding; how "blindness" has, for millennia, been used as a metaphor for ignorance; and how, in metaphorical...

"Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explain it here, because that is what memoirs are for. Charting a "Homeric" decades-long "Odyssey" from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago all the way to a dramatic career that is baffling to his friends, it's almost like there are two or three Bob Odenkirks...but there is just one and one is enough, frankly. Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting...

After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.