
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 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 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 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 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 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 detailstranslated by N. Guterman The most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English introduces readers to universal fairy-tal...
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 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 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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