A young boy tries to convince an angel from destroying the city of London by telling her 32 of the world's greatest epic stories and proving that human beings can get better at being human. This framing device is a fun and fascinating way to introduce world literature to middle school students. Among the carefully collected and condensed epics are Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Odyssey, a few from the Bible, Beowulf, excerpts from The Canterbury Tales and The Divine Comedy, and other great epics from India, Africa, Arabia, China, Japan, America, and Europe. The language is accessible and the book is written by a middle school history and literature teacher.