
African American Folktales
These tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and (fairly or unfairly) got to be the way i...
View full detailsThese tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to stories explaining how the world was created and (fairly or unfairly) got to be the way i...
View full detailsThe deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages--from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished Americ...
View full detailsThe extraordinary road trip across America continues as our heroes gather reinforcements for the imminent god war. Shadow and Wednesday leave the H...
View full detailsShadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke and uncertain where to go from here, he meets the mysterious Mr. We...
View full detailsThe final confrontation between new and old gods, with humanity caught in the middle. The new and old gods agree to meet in the centre of America t...
View full detailsMore than 160 tales from eighty tribal groups gives us a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From across the continent...
View full detailsThree generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family's qu...
View full detailsThis collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are f...
View full detailsWoman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daugh...
View full detailsWe love Asian folklore. We grew up listening to Chinese legends, Arab fairy tales, Malay ghost stories and Indian sacred epics, and their fabulous ...
View full detailsTwo centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales. Since then, such stories as "Cinderella," "Snow White," "Ra...
View full detailsFrom Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than fort...
View full detailsAn enchanting collection of 110 tales, translated from twenty-two different languages, that are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegori...
View full detailsFrom fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of class...
View full detailsHere are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children following you home...
View full detailsFew mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful go...
View full details"Think not that dreams appear to the dreamer only at night, the dream of this world of pain appears to us even by day." In this book, famed author ...
View full detailsTranslated by George Martin Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically fro...
View full detailsTwo hundred and twenty tales from medieval Japan--tales that welcome us into a fabulous faraway world populated by saints, scoundrels, ghosts, magi...
View full detailsThis collection of translated tales is from the most famous work in all of Japanese classical literature--the Konjaku Monogatari Shu. This collecti...
View full detailsFrom Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stor...
View full detailsNo one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in ...
View full detailsThe Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the...
View full detailstranslated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...
View full detailstranslated by C. H. Brewitt-Taylor This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the inde...
View full detailstranslated by N. Guterman The most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English introduces readers to universal fairy-tal...
View full detailsFor fans of fairy tales and the literary supernatural: a unique collection of Russian short stories from the last 200 years In these folk tales, yo...
View full detailsEach of these twelve stories is a complete world, where ordinary lives are transformed, myths bloom into reality and the everyday is haunted by obs...
View full detailsA brilliant reconstruction of the legend of Theseus, the valiant youth who slew the Minotaur, became king, and brought prosperity to Attica. This b...
View full detailsThe stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have become part of the way children--and adults--learn about the vagaries of the real...
View full detailstranslated by Philip Boehm The Fox and Dr. Shimamura toothsomely encompasses Japan and Europe, memory and actuality, fox-possession myths and psych...
View full detailsSet in fourth-century B.C. Greece, The Mask of Apollo is narrated by Nikeratos, a tragic actor who takes with him on all his travels a gold mask of...
View full detailsShocking, erotic and violent, The Monk is the story of Ambrosio, torn between his spiritual vows and the temptations of physical pleasure. His inte...
View full detailsThis classic Chinese epic features a new introduction by Daniel Kane, Head of Chinese Studies at Macquarie University and Cultural Counselor at the...
View full detailsOften considered the greatest work of classic Korean fiction, The Nine Cloud Dream poses the question: will the life we dream of truly make us happ...
View full detailsHere are thirty-two classic myths that bring the pre-Christian Scandinavian world vividly to life. Gods, humans, and monstrous beasts engage in pro...
View full detailsWritten in 1816 by one of the leaders of German Romanticism for his children, nephews, and nieces, The Nutcracker captures better than any other st...
View full detailsThe god touches his finger to the arrow's fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air - as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over wate...
View full detailsNils Holgersson is a naughty boy who pulls the tails of cats and trips up his mother while she is carrying the milk pail. Then one day he discovers...
View full detailsThe story of Troy speaks to all of us - the kidnapping of Helen, a queen celebrated for her beauty, sees the Greeks launch a thousand ships against...
View full detailsFilled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this compendium were gathered d...
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