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Celtic Fairy Tales
By: Jacobs, Joseph (ed.)
Published by: The Floating Press
The success of a fairy book, I am convinced, depends on the due admixture of the comic and the romantic: Grimm and Asbjörnsen knew this secret, and they alone. But the Celtic peasant who speaks Gaelic takes the pleasure of telling tales somewhat sadly: so far as he has been printed and translated, I found him, to my surprise, conspicuously lacking in humour. For the comic relief of this volume I have therefore had to turn mainly to the Irish peasant of the Pale; and what richer...
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Price: $7.95
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The Essential Odyssey
By: Homer; Lombardo, Stanley; Murnaghan, Sheila
Published by: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
This generous abridgment of Stanley Lombardo’s translation of the Odyssey offers more than half of the epic, including all of its best-known episodes and finest poetry, while providing concise summaries for omitted books and passages.
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The Arabian Nights
By: Byatt, A.S. (other); Burton, Richard (trans.)
Published by: Modern Library
Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage.
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Price: $15.00
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
By: Grinnell, George Bird
Published by: Digital Scanning, Inc.
In the first half of the book, Grinnell retells some thirty stories of the Blackfoot Indians, which were told to him by the Blackfeet themselves. These are stories of war and adventure, ancient times, natural phenomena, origins of social customs, and tales of creation and the Creator. The remainder of the book deals with the history of the Blackfeet, their daily life and customs, tribal organization, and religion.
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Price: $4.95
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The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
By: Lowe, N. J.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
This is the story of how western literature first developed its distinctive taste for the kind of tight, economical plotting still supreme in modern fiction and cinema. The book shows how this taste was formed in Greco-Roman antiquity out of a series of revolutions in storytelling.
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Price: $24.00
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology
By: Smith, Evans Lansing
Published by: Alpha Books
Make no "myth-take"athis book is indispensable. "The Complete Idiotas Guide to World Mythology" explores the gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, monsters and angels of the myths from every corner of the globe. Additionally, it explores the parallels between every culture and the striking similarities in mythic figures and the structure, action, wording, and result of the stories themselves. a Covers Egyptian, Celtic, Teutonic, Norse, Japanese, Mexican, Native American, and other myths a Features information on The Heroas Journeyathe cycle of myth according to Jung, Campbell, and others a Appendixes include a glossary of terms and both a general and a subject Index
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Price: $18.95
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Dictionary of Symbols
By: Cirlot, J. E.; Sage, J.
Published by: Routledge
The unvarying essential meanings of around 1,000 symbols and symbolic themes commonly found in the art, literature and thought of all cultures through the ages are clarified.
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Price: $35.95
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
By: Grimm, Brothers
Published by: Digireads
The classic collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm.
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Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity
By: Cotter C.S.J, Wendy
Published by: Routledge
Miracles in Greco-Roman Antiquity presents a collection in translation of miracle stories from the ancient world. The material is divided up into four main categories including healing, exorcism, nature and raising the dead.
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Oedipus Trilogy
By: Sophocles; Storr, F. (trans.)
Published by: The Floating Press
Oedipus the King is Sophocles' legendary rendition of the myth of the great king Oedipus, perhaps the best known of all of the Greek Tragedies. When an oracle foretells that the young prince Oedipus will grow up to murder his father he is cast out of the kingdom by the king who hopes by doing so that he will avoid his fate. Oedipus grows up and many years later, not knowing his own identity, or the identity of his father, meets him at a crossroad where they argue and the king...
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