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Aesop's Fables from ancient Greek story teller of diverse origins. The stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a number of sources. They continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers and in ...

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Rapunzel is one of the fifty three European fairy tales featured in this volume of Grim’s tales. The tale’s best known line: ‘Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your golden hair’ is now an idiom of popular culture.

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In order to make himself appear more important, a miller lies to a king, telling him that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king calls for the girl, shuts her in a tower room filled with straw and a spinning wheel, and demands that she ...

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Hansel and Gretel are a young brother and sister threatened by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and confectionery. The two children save their lives by outwitting her. This story is followed by forty...

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Aesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history; his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it. The firm foundations of common sense, the shrewd shots at uncommon sense, that characterise all the Fables, belong not him but...

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The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859) were German brothers who remained close friends, and both studied law. While Jacob went on to study philology, Wilhelm wrote. The two of them worked on creating a German dictionary, but...

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Little Red Riding Hood, a French fairy tale about a young girl and a big bad wolf and thirty three other European tales are featured in this volume of Grimm's tales. Little Red Riding Hood story follows a mean wolf that wants to eat the little ...

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Recopilación de varias leyendas de los k’iche’, el pueblo de la cultura maya que expone la mitología de este pueblo. El libro tiene un gran valor histórico, así como espiritual. Se le ha llamado, Libro Sagrado de los mayas k'iche's. Es ...

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Snow White is one of the thirty five European fairy tales featured in this volume of Grim’s tales. Snow White is one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the seven dwarfs; the queen feeds ...

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Cinderella and thirty seven other tales are featured in this volume of timeless European tales. Cinderella is a story of a beautiful young girl who lives with her step mother and two vain and selfish sisters. She is made to work day and night in...

The story follows Lucius, a young man of good birth, as he disports himself in the cities and along the roads of Thessaly. This is a wonderful tale abounding in lusty incident, curious adventure and bawdy wit.

This is an 1881 compilation of Thomas Bulfinch's previous writings: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855); The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur (1858); and Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages ...

Hans Christian Andersen began publishing his Fairy Tales in 1835. This collection of 127 of the stories was translated by Mrs. Paull in 1872.

In Greek mythology, Helen, better known as Helen of Sparta or Helen of Troy, was daughter of Zeus and Leda, wife of king Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor, Polydeuces and Clytemnestra. Her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. ...

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Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper.The Iliad is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated to the late 9th or to the 8th century BC, and many...

This is a story of loss, sacrifices, courage and unconditional love. The fate of three children crossed with the fate of the family of Jinns, and they managed to find each other salvation.

The lore of ancient Ireland comes to life in this collection of classic folk tales retold for modern readers.

The full text of all 16 volumes of Richard Burton's monumental translation of The Arabian Nights, with all his candid, racy footnotes, with their wealth of anthropological and cultural information. This file also includes "The Life of Sir Richard...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world...