The complete online text of Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by Charles Kingsley.

The English author and clergyman Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) became the ideal of "Muscular Christianity" through his books and active, many-faceted life. The son of a country parson, Charles Kingsley was born on June 12, 1819. After attending several sc...

Charles Kingsley is one of those prolific second-rank Victorian writers whose works have in recent years been undergoing marked reappraisal. Kingsley himself is a fascinating, because representative, Victorian figure with wide-ranging interests in religi...

The Reverend Charles Kingsley, writer of poetry; novels; historical works; sermons; religious tracts; scientific treatises; and political, social, and literary criticism, was one of the Victorian age's most prolific authors. His was by no means the stere...

MY LIFE AS A FAIRY TALE Libretto by Erik Ehn Music by Stephin Merritt Gerald W. Lynch Theater, John JayCollege Closed An international puzzle out of Danish fairy tales? Your cultures can get cross. Last year, the Chinese...

He is a balding, bespectacled postal worker with a penchant for knitted jumpers. His wife is mousy and slightly nervous-looking. Their home is a neat detached house on the outskirts of the sleepy market town of Ramsey in the Cambridgeshire Fens, where they lived...