Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Andersen's Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen

Andersen’s Fairy Tales gathers the Danish author’s imaginative narratives, beginning with the whimsical…

The Aeneid of Virgil

Virgil

Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic poem that recounts the wanderings of the Trojan hero Aeneas as he strives to found…

Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

Plutarch

Plutarch’s Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans is a collection of paired biographies that pits the great…

Sagen van Koning Arthur en de Ridders van de Tafelronde

Nelly Montijn-de Fouw

Dit werk is een verzamelbundel van tien Arthur-sagen, uitgekozen door Nelly Montijn‑de Fouw om een overzicht…

Nights With Uncle Remus: Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation

Joel Chandler Harris

Nights With Uncle Remus gathers a series of plantation‑era fables, each centered on animal characters that…

今古奇觀

Baowenglaoren

Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen

Alexander Chodzko

Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen is a collection of twenty folk narratives drawn from Slavic…

Egyptian Literature Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings

This volume is a sweeping anthology of ancient Egyptian writings, assembled to showcase the breadth of the…

Humorous Ghost Stories

Dorothy Scarborough

Dorothy Scarborough’s Humorous Ghost Stories is a scholarly yet playful survey of how the specter has evolved…

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

Washington Irving’s tale is a fanciful snapshot of early‑American life, set in the Catskill region of New…

The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales

The Arabian Nights: Their Best‑known Tales is a curated selection from the legendary “Thousand and One…

Myths of China and Japan with illustrations in colour & monochrome after paintings and photographs

Donald A. Mackenzie

The work is a scholarly survey that treats the myths of China and Japan as windows onto the deeper currents…

The Olive Fairy Book

The Olive Fairy Book is a collection of Indian‑inspired fairy tales that opens with a vivid, night‑time…

The Proverbs of Scotland

Alexander Hislop

The work is a compendium of Scottish sayings assembled by Alexander Hislop, presented as a series of…

Andersens Sproken en vertellingen Morgenrood

H. C. Andersen

Dit bundel is een verzameling van Hans Christian Andersens sprookjes, vertaald naar het Nederlands en…

The poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an introduction and notes

The Poetic Edda is a scholarly translation of the oldest Norse mythic corpus, beginning with the Voluspo, the…

Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings

W. P. Strickland

Old Mackinaw is a nineteenth‑century historical and geographical compendium that treats the Mackinac Island…

Werwolves

Elliott O'Donnell

The work is a nineteenth‑century folkloric study that treats were‑wolves as both supernatural menace and…

The Book of Romance

The Book of Romance is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers together a selection of medieval and folk…

The Story of the Greeks

H. A. Guerber

The Story of the Greeks is an elementary history textbook aimed at young pupils, and it begins by explaining…

King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls

Henry Gilbert

This volume is a juvenile adaptation of the classic Arthurian romances, drawn chiefly from Sir Thomas…

西遊記

Cheng'en Wu

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge

The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge is a monumental work of early medieval Gaelic literature,…

The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends

Cornelius Mathews

The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original Legends is a collection of Native American tales that have been…