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  • Latin American Folktales

    Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions

    by John Bierhorst ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    Over one hundred stories showcasing the wisdom and artistry of one the world’s richest folktale traditions—the first panoramic anthology of Hispano-American folk narratives in any language.Gathered from twenty countries and combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America, the stories brought together here represent a core collection of classic Latin American ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Four Masterworks of American Indian Literature

    Quetzalcoatl, the Ritual of Condolence, Cuceb, the Night Chant

    Edited by John Bierhorst ...
    "Bierhorst offers access to more than primary texts here: he maps a way of reading and the necessary apparatus for that reading (including pronunciation guides, reminding us they are oral performances)." —World Literature Today"This comparative application of the epic poetry tradition to Amerind literature is a scholarly success.... this book is a most noteworthy item in the field of American ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Red Swan

    Myths and Tales of the American Indians

    Edited by John Bierhorst ...
    The best of the American Indian myths are works of art, blending form and content into an organic whole in which the great themes of human experience are interwoven much as they are in a memorable short story or novella. But if the underlying themes are similar, the metaphorical and narrative conventions are vastly different; and it is this aesthetic gap that critic John Bierhorst intends to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Mythology of the Lenape

    Guide and Texts

    by John Bierhorst ...
    The Lenape, or Delaware, are an Eastern Algonquian people who originally lived in what is now the greater New York and Philadelphia metropolitan region and have since been dispersed across North America. While the Lenape have long attracted the attention of historians, ethnographers, and linguists, their oral literature has remained unexamined, and Lenape stories have been scattered and largely ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

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    by Michael Patrick Hearn ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    From Robert Browning’s The Pied Piper of Hamelin and William Makepeace Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring to Kenneth Grahme’s The Reluctant Dragon and J. M. Barrie’s Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, here are seventeen classic stories and poems from the golden age of the English fairy tale. Some of them amuse, some enchant, some satirize and criticize, but each one is an expression of the joy of ... Read more

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  • African Folktales

    by Roger Abrahams ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    The deep forest and broad savannah, the campsites, kraals, and villages—from this immense area south of the Sahara Desert the distinguished American folklorist Roger D. Abrahams has selected ninety-five tales that suggest both the diversity and the interconnectedness of the people who live there. The storytellers weave imaginative myths of creation and tales of epic deeds, chilling ghost stories, ... Read more

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  • Legends and Tales of the American West

    by Richard Erdoes ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    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 and an enduringly fascinating folk mythology.In this wonderfully boisterous treasury of tall tales, everyone and ... Read more

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  • Favorite Folktales from Around the World

    by Jane Yolen ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    From Africa, Burma, and Czechoslovakia to Turkey, Vietnam, and Wales here are more than 150 of the world's best-loved folktales from more than forty countries and cultures. These tales of wonder and transformation, of heroes and heroines, of love lost and won, of ogres and trolls, stories both jocular and cautionary and legends of pure enchantment will delight readers and storytellers of all ages ... Read more

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  • Irish Folk Tales

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    Here are 125 magnificent folktales collected from anthologies and journals published from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Beginning with tales of the ancient times and continuing through the arrival of the saints in Ireland in the fifth century, the periods of war and family, the Literary Revival championed by William Butler Yeats, and the contemporary era, these robust and funny, ... Read more

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  • Russian Fairy Tales

    by Aleksandr Afanas'ev ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    Beautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English.This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to such uniquely Russian characters such as Koshchey the Deathless, Baba Yaga, the Swan Maiden, and the glorious Firebird. The more than 175 tales culled from a landmark multi-volume collection by the ... Read more

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  • Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies

    by Moss Roberts ...
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    This collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of the Grimms and Andersen, the universal themes of fairy tale literature emerge in these classic stories, but with a sophistication that is uniquely ... Read more

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  • Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece

    by Gustav Schwab ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy. These stories of heroes and powerful gods and goddesses are set forth simply and movingly, in language that retains the power and drama of the original ... Read more

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