Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art

H. A. Guerber

Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms

Stephen Langdon

Stephen Langdon’s work is a scholarly survey of the religious texts that once filled the temple library of…

鏡花緣

Ruzhen Li

The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Sæmundur fróði; Snorri Sturluson

The volume brings together the two foundational Norse collections known as the Elder Edda of Sæmundur fróði…

The literature of the Celts

Magnus Maclean

Magnus Maclean’s The Literature of the Celts offers a scholarly survey of Celtic literary heritage, framed as…

Fifty Famous Stories Retold

James Baldwin

Fifty Famous Stories Retold is a collection that gathers fifty well‑known narratives from the realms of…

The Æneid of Virgil, Translated into English Verse

Virgil

Virgil’s Æneid, rendered here in English verse, is a scholarly effort to bring the Roman poet’s national epic…

The Oera Linda Book, from a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century

The Oera Linda Book is presented here as an English translation of a manuscript that has long sparked…

The science of fairy tales: An Inquiry Into Fairy Mythology

Edwin Sidney Hartland

The Science of Fairy Tales is a scholarly investigation that seeks to apply the methods of folklore research…

The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1

The volume is a scholarly compilation that seeks to preserve “rude specimens of literature” produced by Maya…

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" Volume 13, Slice 4

Various

Encyclopaedia Britannica’s 11th Edition presents a scholarly overview of the term “hero,” beginning with a…

Stories of King Arthur's Knights, Told to the Children

Mary Macgregor

This work is a retelling of Arthurian romance aimed at younger readers, collected under the title Stories of…

Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay

The work is a scholarly essay on the poetic foundations of Rome’s early history, written by Thomas Babington…

說唐

Guanzhong Luo

The Bible, King James Version, Complete

The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 5, Primitive History The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 5

Hubert Howe Bancroft

The work is the concluding volume of Hubert Howe Bancroft’s extensive survey of the indigenous peoples of the…

The Odyssey of Homer

Homer

The volume presents a scholarly overview of the many English renderings of Homer’s Odyssey, tracing how each…

The Lusiad; Or, The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem

Luís de Camões

The Lusiad is Luís de Camões’s grand epic poem that celebrates Portugal’s Age of Discovery, focusing on Vasco…

Folklore of the Santal Parganas

Cecil Henry Bompas

Cecil Henry Bompas’s Folklore of the Santal Parganas is a scholarly collection of Santal tales, drawn from…

Medical symbolism in connection with historical studies in the arts of healing and hygiene

Thomas S. Sozinskey

Thomas S. Sozinskey’s “Medical Symbolism in Connection with Historical Studies in the Arts of Healing and…

Tibetan Tales, Derived from Indian Sources

The volume gathers a selection of Tibetan legends that have been drawn from the sacred Kah‑gyur, the Tibetan…

The Kādambarī of Bāṇa

Bāṇa‏; Bhūṣaṇabhaṭṭa

The Kādambarī of Bāṇa is a Sanskrit romance that weaves together multiple lives, reincarnations, and a final…

The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries

Thomas Keightley

Thomas Keightley’s The Fairy Mythology is a scholarly compendium that gathers the legends, customs and…

The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

This volume is the first of Francis James Child’s five‑part collection of English and Scottish popular…