Mythology, Legends & Folklore

A Little Book of Filipino Riddles

This volume is a scholarly compilation of Filipino riddles gathered in the early twentieth century.

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

The volume opens with a series of numbered tales, beginning with the story of Nur Al‑Din Ali and the damsel…

Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know

Tales of Wonder is a curated anthology that gathers fairy‑tale gems from across the globe, each story…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

The volume opens amid a tangled court intrigue, where an old queen, furious at a handmaid’s report, confronts…

The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland is an Old‑French epic poem, rendered here in an English translation that preserves the…

A Righte Merrie Christmasse: The Story of Christ-Tide

John Ashton

The Crimson Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Crimson Fairy Book is a collection of folk narratives gathered and reshaped for a British child‑audience…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)

This volume is the third installment of the Arabian Nights collection, gathering a series of interwoven tales…

Irish Plays and Playwrights

Cornelius Weygandt

Cornelius Weygandt’s Irish Plays and Playwrights is a scholarly survey of the Irish dramatic revival at the…

The Heart of the White Mountains, Their Legend and Scenery Tourist's Edition

Samuel Adams Drake

Samuel Adams Drake’s “The Heart of the White Mountains, Their Legend and Scenery – Tourist’s Edition” is a…

Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume One

The volume presents an English rendering of the Finnish epic Kalevala, a collection of ancient ballads that…

Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed (The Harvard Classics Series)

This volume gathers the medieval chronicles of Jean Froissard, Sir Thomas Malory, and Raphael Holinshed,…

Myths of the Modocs

Jeremiah Curtin

Myths of the Modocs is a scholarly collection of traditional narratives recorded by Jeremiah A.

The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of Mansoul

John Bunyan

John Bunyan’s The Holy War is a sprawling allegorical narrative that treats the Christian soul as a city…

The book of witches

Oliver Madox Hueffer

Oliver Madox Hueffer’s The Book of Witches is a polemical essay rather than a scholarly compendium.

Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems

Henry Hart Milman

Henry Hart Milman’s Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems presents a scholarly translation of Sanskrit epic…

Turkish fairy tales and folk tales

This volume gathers a dozen Turkish tales and four Romanian stories that were first recorded by the Hungarian…

Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland Collected Entirely from Oral Sources

John Gregorson Campbell

This volume, compiled by Rev. J. Gregorson Campbell and issued in August 1900, presents a systematic survey…

The Gods of Pegana

Lord Dunsany

The work is a mythic fantasy that presents itself as a creation‑myth for an imagined pantheon.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)

The volume presents a segment of the famed Arabian night‑time anthology, gathering together a series of…

The book of Scottish story: historical, humorous, legendary, and imaginative, selected from the works of standard Scottish authors

Various

The volume gathers a broad sampling of nineteenth‑century Scottish short fiction, presenting stories that…

Australian fairy tales

Atha Westbury

Australian Fairy Tales by Atha Westbury is a collection of imaginative narratives set against the backdrop of…

Tales of the Samurai Stories Illustrating Bushido, the Moral Principles of the Japanese Knighthood

Asataro Miyamori

Tales of the Samurai presents a collection of short stories that illustrate the moral code of the Japanese…

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