Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3

The Mahabharata of Krishna‑Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 (Books 1‑3) is an English translation of the opening…

Aesop's Fables; A New Translation

Aesop

This volume presents a new English translation of the ancient collection traditionally attributed to Aesop, a…

The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance

The Bakhtyār Nāma is a Persian romance that belongs to the Sindibād cycle of tales, a collection long…

Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads is a scholarly anthology that gathers the raw, oral poetry of the…

The magic of jewels and charms

George Frederick Kunz

The work is a scholarly survey of the folklore, superstition, and alleged magical properties attached to…

Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning

T. W. Doane

The work is a scholarly comparative study that sets out to trace the titles, motifs and iconography of…

The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments

The work is a collection of Arabian Nights’ entertainments, a compendium of fairy‑tale narratives drawn from…

The Ballad of the White Horse

G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton’s The Ballad of the White Horse is an epic‑style poem that treats the legendary King Alfred…

Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend

Aesop

The volume presents three hundred fables traditionally attributed to Aesop, rendered into English by George…

The Iliad

Homer

The Iliad is an epic poem that launches with a bitter clash between the Greek commander Agamemnon and the…

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

M. I. Ebbutt

The work is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers together the heroic and romantic legends of England,…

The Aeneid

Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid opens with the battered remnants of the Trojan fleet drifting toward a hostile coast after a…

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II

Ovid

The work presents the fifth book of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in English blank verse, offering a faithful…

Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

The volume is a collection of short stories drawn from Asian folklore, presented for children and young…

Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore

This volume is a compilation of Russian folk narratives, gathered under the heading “Russian Fairy Tales: A…

Folklore as an Historical Science

George Laurence Gomme

George Laurence Gomme’s Folklore as an Historical Science is a scholarly treatise that treats a single…

Seneca Fiction, Legends, and Myths Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; 1910-1911

The volume is a scholarly compilation of Seneca folklore, legends, and myths gathered by Jeremiah Curtin and…

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3): The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources

The volume presents a scholarly compilation of Hawaiian mythology, legends, genealogies and traditional…

The Wandering Jew — Complete

Eugène Sue

The Wandering Jew is a sprawling historical‑fiction saga that intertwines the fate of a cursed traveler with…

Italian Popular Tales

Thomas Frederick Crane

Italian Popular Tales gathers a handful of the country’s most vivid folk narratives, each steeped in the…

Aeneidos

Virgil

Aeneidos est poema epicum Latinum a Virgilio conscriptum, quod Aeneae, Troianorum heroï, fata et itinerum per…

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy

Richard A. Proctor

Richard A. Proctor’s Myths and Marvels of Astronomy is a Victorian‑era popular‑science collection that…

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

Hesiod

This volume gathers the surviving fragments of early Greek epic that followed Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey,…

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)

Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight is an alliterative romance‑poem from the mid‑fourteenth century, written in…