Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696

Charles Perrault

This volume presents the first collected edition of Charles Perrault’s Mother Goose tales, first issued in…

Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales

Leo Tolstoy

This volume gathers a series of short moral tales that blend animal characters with human foibles, each story…

The Valleys of Tirol: Their traditions and customs and how to visit them

Rachel Harriette Busk

The book is a scholarly guide to the valleys of Tirol, written by Rachel Harriette Busk, whose aim is to…

The Lay of Havelok the Dane

The Lay of Havelok the Dane is a medieval English romance preserved in a single 13th‑century manuscript (Laud…

Cock Lane and Common-Sense

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Cock Lane and Common‑Sense is a scholarly polemic from the late Victorian era that tackles the…

The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

James S. De Benneville

The work is a scholarly translation of the classic Edo‑period ghost tale Yotsuya Kwaidan, presented as the…

Shinto (the Way of the Gods)

W. G. Aston

The work is a scholarly survey of Shinto, the ancient Japanese cult of kami, written by William George Aston.

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

H. C. Andersen

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 (of 10)

The volume opens within the opulent court of King Mohammed bin Sulayman al‑Zayni, where the minister Al‑Fazl…

Witch Stories

E. Lynn Linton

The work is a nineteenth‑century compilation of Scottish witch narratives assembled by E.

In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2)

Fridtjof Nansen

This volume, the second of Fridtjof Nansen’s two‑part study of early Arctic exploration, is a scholarly…

Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries

This volume presents a scholarly collection of early Japanese literature rendered in Roman letters,…

Folk-Tales of the Khasis

Mrs. Rafy

This volume is a collection of Khasi folk narratives compiled by Mrs.

The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural

This volume is a curated anthology of ghostly narratives, assembled by the writer‑collector M.

Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin Being excerpts from rare, curious and diverting books

Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin is a privately printed anthology that gathers unexpurgated…

Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table, Adapted from the Book of Romance

This volume is a nineteenth‑century adaptation of the medieval Arthurian romances, drawing chiefly on Sir…

El arte de amar

Ovid

El Arte de amar es la obra didáctica de Ovidio que, bajo la forma de poesía elegíaca, expone un manual de…

Devil Stories: An Anthology

This anthology gathers twenty short tales that explore the figure of the Devil from medieval legend to the…

Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1

John Roby

Rob Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire is a nineteenth‑century collection of regional legends, assembled in two…

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

This volume is a scholarly overview of the Talmud, presented as a single, continuous essay that begins by…

Wigwam stories told by North American Indians

The volume is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers together a wide range of Native American material,…

Stories of Old Greece and Rome

Emilie K. Baker

This volume is a collection of mythic tales retold for younger readers, gathered under the headings of Greek…

The Frogs

Aristophanes

Aristophanes’ The Frogs is a full‑length Greek comedy that opens with a lively, self‑referential prologue.

Orlando Furioso

Lodovico Ariosto

Il poema è un poema cavalleresco del Rinascimento, incentrato sui conflitti amorosi e militari tra i paladini…