Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology

This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The...

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of...

It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth--the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War. Stealing Helen surveys a vast range of...

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the...

This concise and accessible critical introduction examines the world of popular fairy-tale television, tracing how fairy tales and their social and cultural implications manifest within series, television events, anthologies, episodes, and as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641893756Author Eric Shane BryanFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g

Enjoy a collection of classical stories, culled from the greatest storytellers of all time, offering up tales of animals and other enchanted creatures to delight readers young and old. As fables, each story demonstrates a moral lesson or a piece of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538178270Author Herbert Spencer RobinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063139466Author Natalie HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 135g

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894654Author Eric Shane BryanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g

Contributes to the history of Middle Eastern narrative lore and its impact on Western tradition.About the AuthorUlrich Marzolph is a professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Goettingen, Germany. Having served on the editorial board...

Fairy tales are supposed to be magical, surprising, and exhilarating, an enchanting counterpoint to everyday life that nonetheless helps us understand and deal with the anxieties of that life. Today, however, fairy tales are far from marvelous - in the...

Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskin's story-or thinks they do. But this innocent-seeming tale hides generations of women's shrewd accounts of their relationships with men. And the verdict is not flattering. The fairytale may count among the world's oldest...

Formulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral-Formulaic Theory...

Literary Wonderlands is a thoroughly researched, wonderfully written, and beautifully produced book that spans two thousand years of creative endeavor. From Spenser's The Fairie Queene to Wells's The Time Machine to Murakami's 1Q84 it explores the...

Pre-order the final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling the story of The Odyssey - can a hero find his way home?Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years -...

Wild, dark and divine... The first of its kind, Goddess with a Thousand Faces blends historical research with mythological retelling, taking an inspirational, enlightening and fiercely feminist deep dive into ancient goddesses to explore the modern...

Steeped in ancient magic, dark divinity and wild ways, Goddess with a Thousand Faces takes you on a historical journey like no other...Blending mythological retellings with historical research, Goddess with a Thousand Faces traverses the world and...

First Published in 1965, The Panchatantra is a reprint of Franklin Edgerton’s translation, first published in volume two of Panchatantra Reconstructed (1924), with some minor alterations. Probably no other work of Hindu literature has played so important...

***'I love Caroline Lawrence and so should you.' Natalie Haynes'Huge fun!' Tom Holland'Gorgeous illustrations bring the whole pantheon to life.' Emily Wilson***EXPLORE THE MYTHICAL PAST, MEET THE ANCIENT GREEK GODS AND GODDESSES AND DISCOVER WHY THEIR...