 | Irish Myths And Legends
Publication Date: February 25, 1999Lady Gregory's translations of ancient Celtic stories inspired a generation of writers, including W. B. Yeats, whose original foreword to Gods and Fighting Men is abridged for this classic miniature version. A perfect gift for all lovers of literature. ...
 |  | Apollodorus: The Library, Vol. 2: Book 3.10-16 / Epitome (Loeb Classical Library, No. 122)
Publication Date: 1921| ISBN-10: 0674991362 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991361The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second century of our era.I...
|  | Tales Told in Holland (My Travelship)
Publication Date: 1926My Travelship series ...
|  | Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Loeb Classical Library No. 19)
Publication Date: January 1, 1913| ISBN-10: 0674990226 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990227Quintus was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold and generally underrated attempt in Homer's style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen; Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians; the death of Achilles; the contest for Achilles' arms between Ajax and Odysseus; the arrival of Philoctetes; and the making of the Wooden Horse. The poem ends with the departur...
|  | Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion
Publication Date: January 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0786411678 | ISBN-13: 978-0786411672Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher, whose films dominated world markets in the 1950s and 60s, was one of the greatest directors of fantasy films in history. Since his death in 1980, Fisher's reputation has grown from relative obscurity and his influence on the development of the modern horror film has been widely recognized. However, Fisher's importance should not be limited to the context of the fantasy and horror film genres. His films should also b...
|  | Urban Legends: A Collection of International Tall Tales and Terrors
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 031333952X | ISBN-13: 978-0313339523Don't get in that car without looking in the back seat! Everyone has heard the story about such-and-such, and while it sounds impossible, so-and-so swears that it must be true. Often gory, disgusting, shocking, and surprising, urban legends are central to everyday experience. From high schools and colleges to offices and organizations, urban legends are everywhere. This book collects more than 150 urban legends from around the world, such as The Mutilated Shopper, The Devil at the Disco, and The Thug in the Ba...
|  | Classic Myths, Volume 2 (Retold Myths & Folktales)
Publication Date: September 1990| Series: Retold Myths & Folktales Stories: The Theft of Persephone, Odysseus and the Cyclops, Achilles and Hector, The Trojan Horse, Orpheus and Eurydice, Odipus, Antigone, Perseus. ...
|  | The Eternal Ones of the Dream: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Australian Myth and Ritual 1945
Publication Date: October 15, 2004With illustrations and one map. ...
|  | Liberating Voices
Release Date: November 1, 1992| ISBN-10: 0140166556 | ISBN-13: 978-0140166552The powerful novelist here turns penetrating critic, giving us—in lively style—both trenchant literary analysis and fresh insight on the art of writing.“When African American writers began to trust the literary possibilities of their own verbal and musical creations,” writes Gayl Jones, they began to transform the European and European American models, and to gain greater artistic sovereignty.” The vitality of African American literature derives from its incorporation of traditional...
|  | Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida
Publication Date: April 30, 1993| ISBN-10: 0817306862 | ISBN-13: 978-0817306861To many people in South Florida, and "oldtimer" is someone who has lived there for more than five years. Prehistoric Peoples of South Florida considers the culture history of the real South Florida "oldtimers" dating from 10,000 B.C. through the invasion by Europeans and analyzes the ways in which they adapted to their environment through time—or caused their environment to adapt to them. South Florida is a biological island, its plant communities circumscribed by the southern limits ...
|  | For Comrade and Country: Oral Histories of World War II Veterans
Publication Date: November 14, 2002| ISBN-10: 0786413964 | ISBN-13: 978-0786413966Ray Hill was a cook and machine gunner who survived the sinking of a PT boat by a kamikaze. German forces in the middle of the Siegfried defensive line captured Robert Corbin, a forward artillery observer officer who later escaped after 140 days of captivity. Arthur Ensley, a B-25 pilot, was shot down on his 79th mission into the Brenner Pass. He was helped by Italian partisans. Don Barrett, a Marine, was involved in three Pacific campaigns--Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, and Peleliu, where he was badly woun...
|  | The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader (Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music, and Art)
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|  | Food Plants of Coastal First Peoples (Royal British Columbia Museum Handbook)
Publication Date: June 2003| ISBN-10: 0774805331 | ISBN-13: 978-0774805339As long as people have lived in North America, wild plants have been an important source of food. For Native people in western Canada, the nutritional and cultural contribution made by these plants was immense: in all, some 200 species of wild plants provided food. The different ways in which these were used resulted in an almost limitless selection of dishes derived from wild plants. ...
|  | An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics (Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe)
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|  | Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia
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|  | Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree 1930
Publication Date: October 15, 2004This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | The Witch-Cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology
Publication Date: September 17, 2007The mass of existing material on this subject is so great that the author has not attempted to make a survey of the whole of European 'Witchcraft', but has confined herself to an intensive study of the cult in Great Britain. In order, however, to obtain a clearer understanding of the ritual and beliefs she had recourse to French and Flemish sources, as the cult appears to have been the same throughout Western Europe. The sources from which the information is taken are the judicial records and contemporary chroniclers. In the case of the chroniclers, the au...
|  | Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa
Release Date: January 17, 2007| ISBN-10: 0807827533 | ISBN-13: 978-0807827536This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends, writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, this extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of present-day Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciaci¹n, a real-life Spanish priest who traveled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fiction...
|  | The Smell of Humans: A Memoir of the Holocaust in Hungary
Publication Date: January 12, 1995| ISBN-10: 1858660114 | ISBN-13: 978-1858660110| Edition: First Edition Primarily a piece of creative writing and autobiographical literature of a very distinctive Central European kind, this detailed and imaginative short memoir is also an important document of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944.Written by a master of twentieth-century Hungarian literature, it describes life for the Jewish population of German-occupied Budapest--the constant fear of deportation overshadowing the daily trials of living in the ghetto--before concentrating on the writer's ow...
|  | Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis
Publication Date: March 1990'...a brilliant, insightful work. It will surely become the authoritative study on this complex subject' - "Choice". 'There are so many good things in this volume that it is difficult to select the best. I found the chapter concerning American, British, and Australian jokes about one another particularly fascinating, illustrating as it did the different stress on achievement, equality, and status in each of these societies' - "London Sunday Telegraph". '[T]he most comprehensive work to date on ethnic jokes and, by extension, folk humor' - "Journal of American Folk...
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