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Mythology & Folk Tales



Parzival and Titurel

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Parzival and Titurel

Wolfram von Eschenbach, translated by Cyril Edwards

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Parzival is the greatest of the medieval Grail romances. It tells of Parzival’s growth from youthful folly t... See details

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Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

Sir James George Frazer, edited by Robert Fraser

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A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientif... See details

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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

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Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others

translated by Stephanie Dalley

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The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The m... See details

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Relentless Progress

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Relentless Progress

Jack Zipes

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Looks at the surprising ways that stories have influenced people within contemporary culture and vice versa. This t... See details

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Three Tales from the Arabian Nights

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Three Tales from the Arabian Nights

translated by Ursula Lyons and Malcolm Cameron Lyons, introduction by Robert Irwin

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Contains three tales to introduce readers to the delights of “Arabian Nights” – “Ali Baba a... See details

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Adventures of Amir Hamza

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The Adventures of Amir Hamza

Ghalib Lakhnavi, introduction by Musharraf Ali Farooqi, translated by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

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Kalevala

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The Kalevala

Elias Lonnrot, translated by Keith Bosley

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The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition wit... See details

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Táin

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The Táin

translated by Ciaran Carson, by Penguin Press

The Táin Bó Cúailnge (‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’) is the longest and most famous of the epics of the Ulster Cycle, set in the first century... See details

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Bhagavad Gita

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The Bhagavad Gita

translated by Laurie L. Patton, introduction by Simon Brodbeck

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Recounts the conversation between Arjuna the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, the manifestation of God. This boo... See details

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Sindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

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Sindbad and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

translated by Husain Haddawy

The tales told by Shahrazad to Sharyar formed the basic corpus of story-telling in the medieval Islamic world, but have no definitive version in Ar... See details

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Tales of the Elders of Ireland

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Tales of the Elders of Ireland

edited by Ann Dooley and Harry Roe

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“‘Dear holy cleric,’ they said, ‘these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their ... See details

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Penguin Companion to the Ramayana

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Penguin Companion to the Ramayana

Bishnupada Chakravarty and Debjani Banerjee

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Arabian Nights

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The Arabian Nights

translated by Husain Haddawy

The tales told by Shahrazad to Sharyar formed the basic corpus of story-telling in the medieval Islamic world, but have no definitive version in Ar... See details

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Aesop’s Fables

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Aesop’s Fables

Aesop, translated by Laura Gibbs

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This new translation is the first to represent all the main fable collections in ancient Latin and Greek derived fr... See details

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