Charles Kingsley's most completely successful works is The Heroes, written in 1856. This is a retelling for his own children of three of the greatest of the ancient Greek legends, and it is undoubtedly the finest book of its kind published in the nineteenth century, and still unsurpassed.

The stories concern the legends of Perseus, the Argonauts and Theseus.

From the dust jacket of the Dent Dutton reprint