Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Legends, Tales and Poems

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

The volume gathers the short legends, tales and poems that Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer composed in Spanish,…

El libro de las mil noches y una noche; T. 1

Anonymous

Este volumen reúne la primera parte de la famosa colección árabe conocida como Las mil noches y una noche,…

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling Illustrated by numerous incantations, specimens of medical magic, anecdotes and tales

Charles Godfrey Leland

Charles Godfrey Leland’s Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune‑Telling is a scholarly anthology of Romani customs,…

The Book of the Sword

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a sweeping cultural essay that treats the sword not merely as a weapon but as a living symbol…

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

Grimm’s Fairy Tales gathers the German folk narratives that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected from the…

Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2)

von Eschenbach Wolfram

Parzival is Wolfram von Eschenbach’s monumental medieval romance, the German counterpart to the Grail legends…

西湖佳話

Mo, Langzi, pseud.

Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore

Elizabeth Mary Wright

Elizabeth Mary Wright’s Rustic Speech and Folk‑Lore is a scholarly survey of English dialects and the folk…

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

Anonymous

The Arabian Nights Entertainments is a collection of folk narratives that originated in the Arabic‑speaking…

Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs

James M. Mackinlay

The work is a scholarly survey of Scottish water‑worship, assembled by James Murray Mackinlay in the late…

The Columbia River: Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce

William Denison Lyman

The book is a popular‑history and travel guide to the Columbia River, written in 1909 as part of the American…

Jewish children

Sholem Aleichem

The work is a short, lyrical vignette that captures a day in the life of two Jewish youths on the eve of…

The Little Red Hen An Old English Folk Tale

The Little Red Hen is a folk‑tale retelling aimed at young readers, featuring a diligent hen who discovers a…

Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic, and Romance

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The work is a collection of Hindu fairy tales framed around the legendary king Vikramaditya, whom the preface…

The Story of the Three Little Pigs

L. Leslie Brooke

The Story of the Three Little Pigs is a whimsical retelling of the familiar fairy‑tale, presented in a…

Le Morte Darthur Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table

Sir Thomas Malory

The work is Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, the English epic that gathers the Arthurian romances into a…

The Æneid of Virgil translated into English prose

Virgil

Virgil’s Æneid, rendered into English prose by the Oxford Latin scholar John Conington, is presented here as…

Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language

Wentworth Webster

This work is a scholarly collection of Basque folklore, presented by Wentworth Webster as both a compendium…

Tales of Old Japan

Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford Redesdale

Tales of Old Japan is a collection of Japanese legends, folk tales, and moral sermons assembled by Lord…

The Odyssey of Homer

Homer

The Odyssey is an ancient Greek epic rendered into English, recounting the wandering of Ulysses (Odysseus)…

Minstrelsy of the Scottish border, Volume 1

Walter Scott

The first volume of Walter Scott’s Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border is a sweeping survey of the borderlands…

Bulfinch's Mythology

Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s Mythology is a comprehensive anthology that gathers together three of Thomas Bulfinch’s earlier…

Myths & Legends of Japan

F. Hadland Davis

Myths & Legends of Japan is a scholarly anthology that gathers the traditional stories, deities, and folk…

The Literary World Seventh Reader

The Literary World Seventh Reader is a compendium that gathers a wide range of short works, legends, poems,…