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10 best books like Bulfinch's Mythology (Thomas Bulfinch): The Greek Myths, The Norse Myths, Gods and Myths of Northern Europe, Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas, American Indian Myths and Legends, Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others, The Greek Way, The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction, Classical Mythology, Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway

The Greek Myths
AuthorRobert Graves
ISBN0140171991
Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. For a full appreciation of literature or visual art, knowledge of the Greek myths is crucial. In this much-loved collection, poet and scholar Robert Graves retells the immortal stories...
The Norse Myths
AuthorKevin Crossley-Holland
Here are thirty-two classic myths that bring the Viking world vividly to life. The mythic legacy of the Scandinavians includes a cycle of stories filled with magnificent images from pre-Christian Europe. Gods, humans, and monstrous beasts engage in prodigious drinking bouts, contests of strength,...
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
AuthorHilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
ISBN0140136274
Tiw, Woden, Thunor, Frig. these ancient northern deities gave their names to the very days of our week. Nevertheless, most of us know far more of Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and the classical deities. Recent researches in archaeology and mythology have added to what was already a fairly consistent...
Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas
AuthorHélène A. Guerber
ISBN0486273482
Over the centuries, Northern mythology has exerted much influence on Western customs, language, and literature. Its principal theme of the perpetual struggle of the beneficent forces of nature against the injurious, and its twin characteristics of dark tragedy and grim humor, tinge much European...
American Indian Myths and Legends
AuthorRichard Erdoes
This magnificent collection gathers 160 tales from 80 tribal gathers to offer a rich and lively panorama of the Native American mythic heritage. From all across the continent come tales of creation and love, of heroes and war, of animals, tricksters, and the end of the world. Alfonso Ortiz, an eminent...
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0192835890
The ancient civilization of Mesopotamia thrived between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates over 4,000 years ago. The myths collected here, originally written in cuneiform on clay tablets, include parallels with the biblical stories of the Creation and the Flood, and the famous Epic of Gilgamesh, the...
The Greek Way
AuthorEdith Hamilton
ISBN0393310779
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilized world, a strange new power was at work... Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different......
The Awakening and Selected Short Fiction
AuthorKate Chopin
ISBN1593080018
When it first appeared in 1899, Kate Chopin’s The Awakening was greeted with cries of outrage. The novel’s frank portrayal of a woman’s emotional, intellectual, and sexual awakening shocked the sensibilities of the time and destroyed the author’s reputation and career. Many years passed...
Classical Mythology
AuthorMark P.O. Morford
ISBN0195308042
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Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway
AuthorCorinne Demas
ISBN1593080867
Beginning with well-known stories by Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, this diverse and colorful collection includes tales by Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Sherwood Anderson, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Stephen Crane, and Mary Wilkins Freeman. From Sarah Orne Jewett's portraits of rural...
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
AuthorNathaniel Hawthorne
Six legends of Greek mythology, retold for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher, and The Chimaera. In 1838, Hawthorne suggested to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that they collaborate...
Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends
AuthorLewis Spence
ISBN0486265250
"Let us walk in the gloom of the pyramids, in the cool shadows of ruined temples, aye, through the tortuous labyrinth of the Egyptian mind itself, trusting that by virtue of the light we carry we shall succeed in unravelling to some extent the age-long enigma of this mystic land." — from Chapter One.
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New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
AuthorFélix Guirand
ISBN0517004046
Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind.. from pre-biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.. all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an...
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Mythology: An A-Z Guide to the Myths and Legends of the Ancient World
AuthorArthur Cotterell
ISBN0681617349
The book is oversize and has over 1,000 entries over hundreds of pages. It's bulky, but it's lavishly illustrated which makes the full size worthwhile, if you're into those kinds of things.

I think the Goodreads summary can give as good a feel as anything for this book: "An authoritative A to...
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
AuthorMichael Grant
ISBN0452011620
s/t: A fascinating study of the world's great myths and their impact on the creative arts through the ages
In this insightful and absorbing book, distinguished historian and classical scholar Michael Grant demonstrates the dynamic effect that ancient mythology has had on the creative efforts...
Oriental Mythology
AuthorJoseph Campbell
Make no mistake, the Masks of God series by Joseph Campbell is something fierce.

The level of scholarship and devotion to the whole subject of mythology blows me away. Where the first book devoted itself to ancient mythos, the kind we can only infer from lacking sources, this Oriental Mythology...
The Dictionary of Classical Mythology
AuthorJ.E. Zimmerman
ISBN0553257765
"A knowledge of classical mythology is indispensable in understanding and appreciating much of the great literature, sculpture, and painting of both the ancients and the moderns. Unless we know the marvelous stories of the deities and heroes of the ancients, their great literature and art as much...
Myths & Legends of the British Isles
AuthorRichard Barber
ISBN1843830396
The British Isles have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology once as relevant to the races which settled the islands as the Greek and Roman gods were to the classical world. The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries...
Celtic Myths and Legends
AuthorPeter Berresford Ellis
ISBN0786711078
This is an enchantingly told collection of the stirring sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and such heroes as Cuchulain, Fingal, and King Arthur from the ancient Celtic world. Included are popular myths and legends from all six Celtic cultures of Western Europe-Irish,...
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Volume 1
AuthorJames George Frazer
ISBN1404304789
Sir James George Frazer's comparative study of anthropology, folklore, and myth has been an influential work for writers and a standard text for scholars since its original publication, in several volumes, in the early part of the 20th century. Frazer was a professor of social anthropology and a classicist.

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