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.
Writing 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. Men and
Gods is an essential and delightful book with which to discover some of
the key stories of world literature.