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Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale

di Odette Beane

Emma Swan’s life has been anything but a fairy tale. She's been on her own since she was abandoned as a baby--that is, until the night of her twenty-eighth birthday, when Henry, a ten-year-old boy, shows up...

Michigan Legends: Folktales and Lore from the Great Lakes State

di Sheryl James

Over the course of its history, the state of Michigan has produced its share of folktales and lore. Many are familiar with the Ojibwa legend of Sleeping Bear Dunes, and most have heard a yarn or two told of...

Selected Tales of the Brothers Grimm: with 24 full-color illustrations by Haitian artists

di Brothers Grimm & Peter Wortsman

A new selection and translation of the tales of the Brothers Grimm with sixteen full-color illustrations by celebrated Haitian artists.

At the Fireside: True South African Stories

di Webster Roger

Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled with magnificent stories from southern African.

Now,...

More Wild Camp Tales

di Mike Blakely

A lighthearted look at some of the stories Texans have been improving on since their first telling around the glow of a campfire.

Resonance

di J.A. Belfield

Guilt is a heavy burden for the one carrying it. Jem Stonehouse is no exception to this rule. What if she'd acted sooner? What if she'd fully recognised the threat? What if she hadn't allowed the male pack members...

The Brothers Grimm Volume 2: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales

di Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm & Margaret Hunt

We all know the stories — or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about "Wise Folks," "The King's Son Who Feared...

Folk Tales of Scotland: The Well at the World's End and Other Stories

di William Montgomerie & Norah Montgomerie

The classic folk tales of Scotland were passed down from storyteller to storyteller, and from the first sentence they held the attention of the listeners and readers as though a spell had been cast over them,...

Psyche

di Louis Couperus, Lucius Apuleius & B.S. Berrington

In the original myth of Cupid and Psyche, the goddess Venus becomes jealous of Psyche’s celebrated beauty and instructs her son, Cupid, to make her fall in love with a monstrous creature. However, when Cupid...

Jack the Giant Killer (Illustrated)

di Joseph Jacobs & Hugh Thomson

Jack the Giant Killer is the famous English fairy tale about a brave lad slaying hideous giants. Color illustrations by Hugh Thomson.

The Tale of Genji

di Shikibu Murasaki, Edward G. Seidensticker & Edward G. Seidensticker

In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait...

Snow White

di Donald Barthelme

An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life.

In Snow White, Donald Barthelme subjects the traditional...

The Legend of King Arthur and His Knights

di Sir James Knowles

King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly...

The Book of Were-Wolves

di Sabine Baring-Gould

The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould was originally published in 1865 and remains the most important and most often cited book on Lycanthropy. It is as compelling today as it was more than one hundred...

Russian Fairy Tales

di Aleksandr Afanas'Ev

Translated by Norbert Guterman

Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by Alexander Alexeieff

Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian...

Silicon Tales

di Ella Price

This book is the 'always there' book for your bedside table. It's ideal to dip into as a late night distraction from your day's stresses, or to break the monotony of a morning commute. And it's likely to spark...

AZLANDER -

di Gabriel Brunsdon

Puck falls in love with a mortal girl as she lay dying. He follows her soul into the Heavens and beyond. The tale winds its way back to a dark past in the forests of Nottingham, and yet further back to the time...

Tales

di Hans Christian Andersen

Illustrazioni di Ilaria Mattia. La giovane mano di Ilaria Mattia rappresenta alcune delle più famose fiabe di Andersen mostrando con immagini fresche e variopinte le magiche finzioni di storie ancora oggi tra...

The Arabian Nights

di Richard Burton & Kenneth C. Mondschein

They are ancient stories, but they still enchant our imaginations today: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves—Sinbad the Sailor—Aladdin. These and the other Middle Eastern stories collected in Arabian Nights are...

Grandma's Santo on Its Head / El santo patas arriba de mi abuelita: Stories of Days Gone By in Hispanic Villages of New Mexico / Cuentos de días glori

di Nasario García

In this collection of bilingual stories about the Río Puerco Valley, where Nasario García grew up, he shares the traditions, myths, and stories of his homeland.