Charles Shaw

A biography of a professional baseball player who dedicated his life to spreading the gospel and became one of the most influential religious figures of the early twentieth century.

The life of the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer who, after driving out the French, claimed Florida for Spain.

The life of the woman who became a Revolutionary heroine when she carried water to the soldiers at the Battle of Monmouth in 1778.

Retells in simple vocabulary the classic tale of the young Englishman who gives up his life during the French Revolution to save the husband of the woman he loves.

When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that was "fresh, unpretentious and lean" (Madeline Miller, Washington Post)--critics lauded it as "a revelation" (Susan Chira, New York Times) and "a cultural landmark" (Charlotte Higgins, Guardian) that would forever change how Homer is read in English. Now Wilson has returned with an equally revelatory translation of Homer's other...