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
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
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 Group USA Inc, February 1993. Trade Paperback. In "Myths to Live By, " Joseph, Campbell explores the enduring power of the universal myths that influence our lives daily and examines the myth-making process from the primitive past to the immediate present, returning always to the source from which all..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1964. Trade Paperback. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1962. Trade Paperback. More
Pub Group West, September 2003. Oversized Hardcover. The author of Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Masks of God series, and The Power of Myth here turns his powers of observation and analysis on his own life's journey and conveys the excitement of his life-long exploration of mythic traditions, which..... 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
Mazda Pub, June 1996. Paper Back. More
Dover Publications, June 1965. Trade Paperback. The Brown Fairy book is a delectable assortment of adventures from all over the world. Stories came from Persia, Australia, Africa; others originated in Brazil, India, New Caledonia, and other lands. One tells of a witch who used a magic ball to steal children..... More
Dover Publications, June 1968. Trade Paperback. "The Olive Fairy Book" includes unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, the Sudan, and the pen of Anatole France. But all of the stories are told in the common language of the fairy tale, and the heroes - the Green Knight who is..... More
Back Bay Books, September 1998. Trade Paperback. There has long been a need for the stories of ancient mythology written to appeal to the twentieth-century mind. Edith Hamilton's orderly and lucid presentation of Greek, Roman and Norse mythology promises the casual reader and the avid student a sound, modern and..... More
Pantheon Books, November 2021. Hardcover. A brilliantly original, landmark retelling of Greek myths, recounted as if they were actual scenes being woven into textiles by the women who feature prominently in them--including Athena, Helen, Circe and Penelope "Greek myths were full of powerful witches, unpredictable gods and sword-wielding slayers. They..... More
Grove Pr, May 1995. 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
NYRB Classics, May 2019. Paper Back. A classic, enchanting document of Scottish folklore about fairies, elves, and other supernatural creatures. Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgängers, wraiths, and..... More
Dover Publications, June 1967. Trade Paperback. It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Princes and princesses, kings and queens, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres - these are the companions who thrill young boys and girls of..... More
