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The Hero
Lee Child - TLS Books
Format: Hardcover
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WHAT MAKES A HERO? WHO BETTER TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION THAN LEE CHILD ... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin Slaughter'I don't know another author so skilled at making me turn the page' The TimesIn his first work of nonfiction, the creator of the multimillion-selling... |
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The Annotated African American Folktales
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Liveright
Format: Hardcover
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These nearly 150 African American folktales animate our past and reclaim a lost cultural legacy to redefine American literature.Drawing from the great folklorists of the past while expanding African American lore with dozens of tales rarely seen before, The Annotated African American Folktales... |
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The Edge of Memory: Ancient Stories, Oral Tradition and the Post-Glacial World
Patrick Nunn - Bloomsbury Sigma
Format: Hardcover
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In The Edge of Memory, Patrick Nunn explores the science in folk history. He looks at ancient tales and traditions that may be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact, and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the Biblical Flood.We all know those stories that have been... |
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More Than True: The Wisdom of Fairy Tales
Robert Bly - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover
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National Book Award-winning poet and author of the internationally best-selling Iron John, Robert Bly revisits a selection of fairy tales and examines how these enduring narratives capture the essence of human nature.Few forms of storytelling have greater power to captivate the human mind... |
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Aurelia : Art and Literature Through the Mouth of the Fairy Tale
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In eighteenth-century London butterfly collectors weren't known as lepidopterists - they were the Society of Aurelians, employing an old term that refers to that mysterious cask where beauty is divined: the chrysalis. As a twenty-first-century Aurelian, Carol Mavor, in this book, moves... |
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Central Ohio Legends & Lore
JAMES A WILLIS - The History Press
Format: Paperback
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The legendary tales of Central Ohio reach far beyond the region. Bigfoot-like creatures have been sighted in the state since the 1800s. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was the headquarters for the military's investigations into UFO sightings in the mid-twentieth century. Some of Johnny... |
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Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World, 2nd Edition
Graham Seal - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines real and imagined that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through... |
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Folk Heroes and Heroines around the World, 2nd Edition
Graham Seal - Greenwood
Format: Hardcover
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Despite the tremendous differences between cultures and ethnicities across the world, all of them have folk heroes and heroines real and imagined that have been represented in tales, legends, songs, and verse. These stories persist through time and space, over generations, even through... |
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The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales
Franz Xaver von Schonwerth - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Move over, Cinderella: Make way for the Turnip Princess! And for the "Cinderfellas" in these stories, which turn our understanding of gender in fairy tales on its head.A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales - now for the first time in EnglishWith this volume, the holy trinity... |
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Dirty Library: Twisted Children's Classics and Folked-Up Fairy Tales
Mary Dauterman - Running Press
Format: Book
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ARE YOU MY BABY DADDY?Based on the popular blog of the same name, Dirty Library reimagines 45 classic children’s books and gives them a delightfully raunchy and hilarious new spin.Titles include: Where the Girls Gone Wild Things Are • Handjob and Gretel • Puss in Booze •... |
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The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends
Garry J. Shaw - Thames & Hudson; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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An authoritative guide to the Egyptian myths that sheds new light on an ancient way of understanding the world This survey of Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the creation and evolution of the world and the reigns... |
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Marina Warner - Oxford University Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories... |
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell - New World Library
Format: Hardcover
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Since its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faces has influenced millions of readers by combining the insights of modern psychology with Joseph Campbell's revolutionary understanding of comparative mythology. In these pages, Campbell outlines the Hero's Journey, a universal... |
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The Arabian Nights II: Sinbad and Other Popular Stories
Husain Haddawy - Norton
Format: Book
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This work presents four of the most popular stories from "The Arabian Nights": "Sinbad the Sailor"; "`Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"; "`Ala al-Din (Aladdin) and the Magic Lamp"; and "Qamar al-Zaman". |
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Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen - Viking Adult
Format: Print book
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A gawky, dreamy boy, Hans Christian Andersen grew up to become a profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. Andersen gave us the now standard versions of some traditional folk tales as well as original stories that have enchanted generations... |
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Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism
Howard Schwartz - Oxford U Pr
Format: Print book
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The first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, Tree of Souls reveals a mythical tradition as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore... |
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The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
Tatar, Maria
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Not since Bruno Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has there been such an illuminating contribution to the world of children's fairy tales.The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales is a remarkable treasure trove, a work that celebrates the best-loved tales of childhood and presen |
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.The bittersweet and often hilarious tales -- which range from longer narratives about God, the Devil, white folk, and mistaken... |
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A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
David Leeming - Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Meet the elephant-headed Hindu god Ganesa, and Chang O, the Lunar Toad who is Chinese goddess of the Moon. In handy A-to-Z format, here are the stories of the revered deities, sacred places, key events and epics, and recurring themes and traditions that make up the rich and varied fabric... |
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Children of Wax: African Folk Tales
Alexander McCall Smith - Interlink Books
Format: Paperback
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This is a collection of 27 tales demonstrating the variety of traditional African folk tales. From animal fables to mysterious forces residing in the landscapes all the the tales manifest the very particular magic of Africa's spiritual roots: a sense of unity with the environment. |
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Legends and Tales of the American West
Erdoes, Richard
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From Davy Crockett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane to Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, and Frank and Jesse James, here are more than 130 colorful stories of the pioneers, cowboys, outlaws, gamblers, prospectors, and lawmen who settled the wild west, creating a uniquely American hero |
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Zora Neale Hurston : Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings : Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles
Zora Neale Hurston - Library of America
Format: Hardcover
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This Library of America volume, with its companion, brings together for the first time all of the best writing of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most significant twentieth-century American writers, in one authoritative set."Folklore is the arts of the people," Hurston wrote, "before... |
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Native American Myths and Legends
Colin F Taylor - Smithmark
Format: Book
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Explores the mythology of Native Americans in their struggles of solve the mysteries of humankind's origins and purpose on Earth, in an examination of Native American anthropology, rituals, ceremonies, holy places, and craftsmanship. |
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