This masterpiece of history and fable recounts the timeless tales of Arthur and the Round Table, and discusses the historical events and the worldview of the civilization ...
Это новая версия страницы книги. Часть функций ещё в работе — мы добавляем их постепенно.
К старой версии страницыПохожие книги
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
The Norse myths are second only to the Greek myths in their greatness and power, and and these stories of giants striding across the Nordic landscape, of stallions pulling...
The vibrant Old Norse poems in this 13th-century collection recapture the ancient oral traditions of the Norsemen. These mythological poems include the Voluspo, one of the...
From the golden age of Russian theater: masterpieces by four great writers. Gogol's The Inspector General (translated by John L. Seymour and George R. Noyes) skewers the s...
Book DescriptionNow available in trade paperback-- a first-of-its-kind collection, this bestselling anthology represents a journey through the rocky terrain of separation ...
Book DescriptionDistinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pur...
In these original essays, seventeen celebrated authors give a private tour of the male psyche and discuss the journey to lasting love. Exploring aspects of themselves that...
An anthology of the most chilling urban legends of all time collected by the maestro himself. Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always ha...
Sixteen thrilling and chilling stories by some of the greatest writers of horror and the supernatural, including Bram Stoker, H.P. Lovecraft, Charles Dickens, Ambrose Bier...
The extraordinary Scandinavian myth cycle is one of the most enduring, exciting, dramatic and compelling of the world's great stories. A series of intertwined tales which ...
These are the stories our ancestors told to explain how the world began; or they are the legends of half-remembered heroes and people whose lives were changed by magic. Br...
A New York Times bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild We...
These stories include the great myths - of Amen-Ra, who created all the creatures in the world; of Isis, searching the waters for her dead husband Osiris; of the Bennu Bir...
The great tales of Hercules, Odysseus, Oedipus, and Perseus -- all in one fun, informative book!The world has had a long fascination with ancient Greek and Roman mythology...
Brandeis, producer of motion pictures, traveled with her eight-year old Marie and Ref (her camera) across the ocean. This series of books about foreign children is the del...
Joseph Jacobs (1854–1916) was a noted literary and folklorist. He edited a number of books of fairy tales, including this work and its sequel, More Celtic Fairy Tales. It ...
50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry...
Like all the National Geographic Kids Everything books, Everything Mythology is more dynamic, visually exciting, and fun than the competition - with more information too! ...
Seven Short Novel Masterpieces complete and unabridged, Seven Literary giants, Seven of their greatest Masterpieces. The Russian genius for depth-in theme, emotion and cha...
Myths, legends and true stories about love have always formed a major part of oral folk art, and it is also a theme that has inspired countless works of literature. Love t...