Fairy Tales from the German Forests
10 best books like Fairy Tales from the German Forests (Margaret Arndt): Indian Fairy Tales, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, Flower Fables, Mythologies, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Eskimo Folk-Tales, Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian, Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai, Japanese Children's Favorite Stories, Great Swedish Fairy Tales
Stories included are:
The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackel
The Soothsayer's Son
Harisaman
The...
| Author | James Stephens |
| ISBN | 0486291669 |
'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'
A good collection, very funny and with that uniquely Irish feel to it. And I should say that this is not so much a collection of Irish fairy tales as a collection of Irish sagas,...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1930142021 |
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Flower Fables contains wildly imaginative stories that grew out of Alcott's experience as a storyteller to the children of her Concord, Connecticut, neighbors. Through these enticing encounters with fairies, elves, and animals, the author creates a foundation...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0684826216 |
Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic poets work their Gaelic magic in this enthralling collection of supernatural tales from the pen of William Butler Yeats. Based on Irish country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, the stories were first published at the height of...
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,...
THESE stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo...
| Author | Charles John Tibbits |
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| Author | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford |
| ISBN | 0486440621 |
The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attaché with the British legation at Edo (Tokyo) — one of the first foreign diplomats to do so. During his brief stay...
A nice collection of Japanese fairy tales, "Japanese Children's Favorite Stories" is nicely illustrated for young readers.
(And, at least in the case of the Romanian version, it's also adapted - there's a reference to Momotaro being sent by God to a childless elderly couple so he could be their...
This book has wonderful tales and equally wonderful artwork by John Bauer. Three tales stand out, "The Magician's Cape", "The Queen," and "The Changelings". The stories include encounters with trolls and feature a good mixture of heros and heroines.
It should be noted, however, that the...
| Author | William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS, known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis,...
As I knew little about Buddhism, I would say this book was a good resource. That being said, I do not agree with the religion having understood what was presented. It appears to be a religion founded on the sole urge to overcome ignorance, which in itself is good, but not logical. Not everyone is capable...
| Author | William Walker Atkinson |
A decent book. nothing new here though makes references to "the unknown life of Christ" and other books about ST Issa in India aka Jesus the Nazarene . i was hoping for more insight into the hidden mysteries of christinaity but its only tid bits and crumbs , which is good. the point of gnosis is for you to do...
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
| Author | William Ralston Shedden Ralston |
I now see where so much from the Winternight trilogy came from! However, I have serious issues with the unfortunate formatting and layout of this book. Stories were told in weird conglomerations - oh, in another version instead it goes like THIS etc. - and there weren't good paragraphing and indentations...
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
| Author | Ignatius L. Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0486233715 |
The great classic of Atlantis, this book more than any other established the existence of this lost continent for the modern world. Attracting hundreds of thousands of readers and stimulating vast debate, it influenced generations of people including countless scientists who went on to do serious...
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
In ill health following a stroke, Sir Walter Scott wrote Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft at the behest of his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, who worked for a publishing firm. The book proved popular and Scott was paid six hundred pounds, which he desperately needed (despite his success as a novelist,...
| Author | Frances Hodgson Burnett |
| ISBN | 1417936886 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1421830167 |
Not a review (as I really can't be bothered about adding to the kipple that is already on the internet), but as no one else has written anything about this splendid novel and most have deemed to give it decidedly mediocre ratings I thought I better say something about it and it gives be a chance to complain...
India: What it Can Teach Us
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,...
«KIKI-LA-DOUCETTE : Elle a voulu - j'étais petit - me purger avec l'huile. Je l'ai si bien griffée et mordue qu'Elle n'a pas recommencé. Elle a cru, une minute, tenir le démon sur ses genoux. Je me suis roulé en spirale, j'ai soufflé du feu, j'ai multiplié mes vingt griffes par cent, mes dents par...
| Author | Herodotus |
| ISBN | 1605977284 |
Herodotus was a 5th century Greek philosopher. He is the "Father of History.." Herodotus was the first historian to collect materials, check them for accuracy and them place them in chronological order. His writings give the reader a sense of the nature of the world and of science during his time. Herodotus...
