Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
10 best books like Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights (E. Dixon): Kill the Shogun, The Grey Fairy Book, The Double Life of Zoe Flynn, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Myths and Legends of China, Popular Tales from the Norse, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children, The Ice-Maiden and Other Tales
| Author | Dale Furutani |
| ISBN | 0688158196 |
In this rich new mystery, Dale Furutani brings back Matsuyama Kaze, a wandering samurai searching for the missing daughter of his murdered lord. Clues lead Kaze to the new capital of 17th-century Japan, Edo, where the girl has been sold into child prostitution. While Kaze seeks to save the child, he...
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486217914 |
It is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. The goat-faced girl, Prunella, the three sons of Hali, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres—these are the companions who thrill boys and girls of all lands and all...
The Double Life of Zoe Flynn
| Author | Janet Lee Carey |
| ISBN | 0689856040 |
Zoe Flynn has a secret. She used to live in California, in a big old house -- the best house in the world really -- at 18 Hawk Road. It rambled and creaked and was full of good hiding places. She used to have a best friend named Kellen who lived right down the road, and a dog named Merlin who loved to play with her....
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis was invited to Japan for the purpose of organizing schools along Western lines. He prepared the New Japan Series of reading and spelling books and primers...
"I am Pallas Athena; and I know the thoughts of all men's hearts, and discern their manhood or their baseness. And from the souls of clay I turn away, and they are blessed, but not by me. They fatten at ease, like sheep in the pasture, and eat what they did not sow, like oxen in the stall. They grow and spread,...
Edit: Jan.25
I've decided to change my original rating of 2 stars to 1.
I tried to read this again after downloading another free ebook of Chinese myths from the iBook store called The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Shan Hai Jing. The earliest accounts of some of the stories found in TCoMaS...
| Author | George Webbe Dasent |
Translated from Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe's collection. You may have heard of this particular collection; J.R.R. Tolkien cites it in "On Fairy-Stories." And you definitely know one tale: "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff."
There are a lot more here. Has some animal...
I chose to read "The Fisherman and the Merman" folk-story out of this book. Like many other folk-stories this was at times hard to understand what was going on and was required to be read more than once. This story showed the very dark side that these types of stories can posses. This story says things like,...
Title
Celtic Tales Told to the Children: The Starry-Eyed Deirdre
Author
Louey Chisholm
Illustrator
Catherine Cameron
Category
Traditional and ICDL
Copyright Date
1910
Estimate of age level of interest
Adult
Estimate...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
The Ice Maiden rules the cold snowcapped mountains of Switzerland. Before Rudy was a year old, the Ice Maiden claimed his father into the icy depths of the mountains -- and now she wants Rudy too. The precocious little boy must now do everything in his power to resist the lure of the Ice Maiden . . . and escape...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references,...
| Author | Donald A. Mackenzie |
"Myths of Babylonia and Assyria" takes a look at the ancient history of the land that is now part of Iraq and the Middle East. The book looks at the myths and legends of Babylonia and Assyria, and how these ancient tales reflect the beliefs and development of these early civilizations. The historical narrative...
Read: November 2017
Rating: 4/5 stars
This was a funny, very British A-Z dictionary of how to survive a zombie apocalypse. It is not a book to read in one sitting as it would get very repetitive, but instead something to pick up and read an entry from over the course of a few days or weeks. As someone...
Praise for Package Deal:
"I love this book - it's an incredibly funny, feel-good page-turner." Dorothy Koomson, bestselling author of My Best Friend's Girl
"This is the Brits abroad in all their glory. It made me laugh out loud." Simon Nye, creator of hit TV series Men Behaving Badly...
The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales
| Author | Richard Garnett |
| ISBN | 1598186515 |
Best known for his non-fiction and biographies, Richard Garnett published this collection of his short stories in 1888. The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales includes the title story, in which a mortal girl meets Prometheus on a mountain top; "The Demon Pope," in which a Pope makes good on a favor owed...
Dr. Robert Newman is a man obsessed--obsessed with the death of his wife from a rare genetic disease--obsessed with finding a cure to save her sister from the same fate. After years of single-minded effort, he has developed a revolutionary gene therapy procedure. Now the most devastating of human diseases...
Si Babi Ungu Dan Cerita - Cerita Lain
| Author | Enid Blyton |
| ISBN | 9796861011 |
Baru beli buku ini kemarin di pembukaan toko buku di Gunung Sahari, Seri Kumbang, 1 box ada 8 buku. Lumayan, diskon 30%. He3x..
Serasa bernostalgia, balik lagi ke jaman SD. Tapi buku Enid Blyton ini emang termasuk klasik dan everlasting. Bukan sekedar dongeng pengantar tidur, tapi penuh makna.
Melalui...
Charming: A Cinderella Prequel (The Dark Woods, #1)
Alternate cover edition for ASIN B00ECN4Z6G
CHARMING is part one in a two-part series (so yes, it does have a cliffhanger ending!) The second volume, CINDERMAID, is also available at Amazon and other major eBook retailers.
Ugly is a great many things. Warty, buck-toothed, crooked-lipped,...
ADIPATI AGUNG, seorang pengusaha asal Solo, Indonesia, ditangkap oleh Polisi Keuangan Italia, Guardia di Finanza (GdF) pimpinan Alberto Zola, di sebuah kota kecil di Verbania, Italia, dekat perbatasan Swiss. Di dalam koper Adipati ditemukan surat-surat berharga senilai sepuluh miliar dolar....
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1434655636 |
I have my great grandmother's copy from 1904 - purchased for my grandmother for her 2nd birthday.
The copy I have has only the titled story, so this is a review of the one story only.
This 'Modern Cinderella' has no evil step-family in it and the eldest sister is merely a cinderella of circumstance;...
| Author | Jacob Grimm |
| ISBN | 2070368408 |
Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Snow White are among the jewels we owe to the German brothers Grimm, who began in the first decade of the 19th century to seek out and listen to village storytellers. The best-loved of the tales they discovered are now brought together with the marvelous pictures...
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland (Penguin Young Readers, L4)
Basic Plot: Alice travels to Wonderland in search of the white rabbit, encounters a lot of nonsense, then wakes to find it was all a dream.
I'm not sure there's anyone in Western society who doesn't know the basics of the story by now. This adaptation for beginning readers is just one more in a long...
