Liveright Publishing Corporation, September 2021. Hardcover. A cornerstone of world literature and a monument to the power of storytelling, the Arabian Nights has inspired countless authors, from Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe to Naguib Mahfouz, Clarice Lispector, and Angela Carter. Now, in this lavishly designed and illustrated edition of..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, July 2013. Trade Paperback. The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns. At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and..... More
Penguin Classics, April 1965. Turtleback Binding. A story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the..... More
Penguin Classics, December 1972. Mass Market PaperBack. Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character of Gilgamesh, the great king of Ukruk, tells of his long and arduous journey to the Spring of Youth, of his encounters with monsters..... More
Indiana University Press, June 1962. Trade Paperback. The Golden Ass by Apuleius is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel - the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in entirety from antiquity. It tells the story of the hero Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex..... More
Vintage, May 1977. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Pencil underling and side notes scattered lightly through text. Decent reading copy for readers not distracted by underlining. 348 pages. More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2003. Trade Paperback. Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that always happen to a friend of a friend. The paperback version of Brunvand's latest collection of urban legends and folklore which was preceded..... More
Thames & Hudson, April 2022. Hardcover. How do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eight iconic Greek myths hold in the modern world. Buxton traces these stories and archetypes..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1970. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), September 1970. Trade Paperback. As is. Undelining in pencil on several pages. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1964. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1962. Trade Paperback. More
Harpercollins, March 1990. Oversize Softcover. The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world. More
Doubleday, January 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Some minor dust staining in the edges of the print block. More
Weatherhill, January 1974. First Edition. Cloth. Quarto. {7 & 3/4' x 10 & 1/2} Edgeworn dustjacket, especialy at top. Sun bleached margins of rear jacket panel and spine. Flap is not clipped. Chocolate brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Textured golded ochre end pages. 295 pages. More
Harpercollins, August 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Harpercollins, August 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Mazda Pub, June 1996. Paper Back. More
Dover Publications, June 1969. Trade Paperback. Soils and national characteristics differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents the world over. So proved the leading British folklorist Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) with this now classic volume of 29 traditional tales from India, including some of the oldest recorded..... More
American-Scandinavian Foundation, January 1959. Cloth. In dustjacket with darkened spine & margins with chipping at corners & especially (about 1/8th inch from edges) at top & bottom of spine. Blue boards with gold lettering along spine & upon front board. There is fading at edges of boards & bruising with..... More
Random House Inc, June 1994. Paper Back. A tale of chivalry and doomed, transcendent love, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult is one of the most resonant works of Western literature, as well as the basis for our enduring idea of romance. The story of the Cornish knight and the..... More
Ultra, October 2014. Paper Back. Unread copy. Slight curl to textblock. More
Inner Traditions, April 2002. Trade Paperback. The fascinating biography that illuminates the man whose work changed modern culture - Gives a complete biographical view of Campbell's life and a personal perspective of who he was through the voices of his friends and colleagues - Written by two of Campbell's preeminent..... More
Facts on File, January 1984. First Edition. Cloth. Light shelf wear on the jacket. Two very lightly bumped corners on the boards. More
George Braziller, June 1975. First American. Cloth. Octavo in lightly edgeworn DJ. Front flap is not clippe. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering on spine. First published in England in 1891 and then its 2nd edition was 1892. In 1974 Architectural Press published this version, again in England. As..... More
