Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story

H. A. Guerber

The Book of the Epic is a scholarly survey that gathers the chief heroic narratives of many cultures into…

Legends & Romances of Spain

Lewis Spence

Lewis Spence’s Legends & Romances of Spain is a scholarly survey of Spanish chivalric literature, aimed at…

Legends & Romances of Brittany

Lewis Spence

Lewis Spence’s Legends & Romances of Brittany is a scholarly anthology that gathers together the full range…

續子不語

Mei Yuan

Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2)

James S. De Benneville

Bakemono Yashiki, the second volume of James S. De Benneville’s “Tales of the Tokugawa,” presents a…

Fasti

Ovid

Carmen Ovidii Fasti est poema didacticum quod, ut indicat praefatio, antiquarum rerum Romanarum, religiones,…

American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent

Daniel G. Brinton

American Hero‑Myths is a scholarly study that seeks to rescue the native religious narratives of the Western…

Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

Petrovitch, Woislav M.; Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović

The work is a scholarly compilation of Serbian legends, folklore and epic tales, assembled by the Serbian…

History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12)

George Grote

George Grote’s History of Greece is a scholarly survey that begins by distinguishing the mythic “Legendary…

Popular Tales

Charles Perrault

This volume presents Charles Perrault’s French fairy‑tale collection, first issued in Paris in 1697.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings

Joel Chandler Harris

The work is a literary collection that gathers the songs, sayings, and animal fables of Uncle Remus, the…

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

Kālidāsa

This volume presents the English translations of Kālidāsa’s Sanskrit drama and poetry, beginning with a…

諧鐸

Qifeng Shen

The Alhambra

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s “The Alhambra” is a hybrid of travelogue, historical sketch, and imaginative tale,…

Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Version From Original Sources

Aesop

This volume presents a newly revised collection of Aesop’s fables, drawn directly from the original Greek…

The Heroic Age

H. Munro Chadwick

The work is a scholarly comparative study of heroic poetry, divided into three parts that examine the early…

Indian Fairy Tales

Indian Fairy Tales is a scholarly anthology that gathers a wide range of stories from the Indian…

The Testimony of Tradition

David MacRitchie

The Testimony of Tradition is a scholarly investigation into the folklore and antiquities of Scotland, the…

Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes

Nora K. Chadwick

This volume gathers four of the rarely‑translated Fornaldar Sögur Northrlanda, early “Stories of Ancient…

Ancient calendars and constellations

Emmeline M. Plunket

The work is a scholarly treatise that examines how ancient peoples linked their calendars to the movements of…

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2)

Sir John Rhys

John Rhys’s “Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx” is a scholarly compilation that brings together material he…

Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume

Voltaire

Voltaire’s Romances offers a sweeping collection of the French author’s short fictional works, rendered into…

Beauty and the Beast

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

The work is a French‑origin fairy tale retold by Jeanne‑Marie Leprince de Beaumont, opening with the familiar…

Witchcraft and superstitious record in the south-western district of Scotland

J. Maxwell Wood

This work is a scholarly survey of the folklore and witch‑craft beliefs that flourished in Scotland’s…