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10 best books like Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece (Gustav Schwab): Maria Stuart, African Folktales, Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies, Latin American Folktales, Favorite Folktales from Around the World, Folktales from India, French Folktales, Norwegian Folktales, Arab Folktales, Irish Folk Tales

Maria Stuart
AuthorFriedrich Schiller
ISBN3150000645
"Nach meiner Ansicht ist Maria Stuart die pathetischste und am besten durchdachte von allen deutschen Tragödien. Das Schicksal dieser Königin, deren Leben so glückverheißend begann, die ihr Glück durch zahllose Fehler verscherzte und endlich nach neunzehnjähriger Gefangenschaft das...
African Folktales
AuthorRoger D. Abrahams
Just like the others, I really enjoyed the tales, but not the commentary, which seemed excessive, superficial and a justification for the white scientist to have his name on the cover. Also, the grouping was weird (I would prefer by tribe), and the pictures of art objects seemed to be attached to fairy...
Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies
AuthorMoss Roberts
Quite a treasury. I liked the numerous short fables even better than the stories. And the introduction, that gives just a bit of historical context, esp. re the rivalry between the Confucians and the Taoists, is helpful.

My favorite is one of the very shortest:

"The Missing Axe

"A...
Latin American Folktales
AuthorJohn Bierhorst
The wisdom and artistry of Latin America's storytellers preserve one of the world's richest folktale traditions—combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's wife who knew the Devil's secrets, the...
Favorite Folktales from Around the World
AuthorJane Yolen
Yolen, Jane. Favorite Folktales from Around the World (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) (1986).
Hero
The Iroquois story of "The Flying Head" tells the folktale of a giant head with wings that came out of its cheeks and a mouth full of fangs. This giant head would fly at night looking...
Folktales from India
AuthorA.K. Ramanujan
An enchanting collection of 110 tales, translated from twenty-two different languages, that are by turns harrowing and comic, sardonic and allegorical, mysterious and romantic. Gods disguised as beggars and beasts, animals enacting Machiavellian intrigues, sagacious jesters and magical storytellers,...
French Folktales
AuthorHenri Pourrat
ISBN0679748334
Selected from Henri Pourrat's classic Le tresor des contes, one of the finest folktale collections in the world, these one-hundred-odd legends, fairy tales, devotional pieces, jokes, and animal stories from the rural provinces of France comprise a magical volume. Fairies, changelings, giants,...
Norwegian Folktales
AuthorPeter Christen Asbjørnsen
Long a treasure in Norway, the folktales collected by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe have been acclaimed for their richness of humor, fullness of life, and depth of understanding since they first appeared in translation more than a hundred years ago. The Norwegian folktales, said Jacob...
Arab Folktales
AuthorInea Bushnaq
ISBN0394751795
While containing a broad sampling of folktales from the Arab people, there are a few problems that consistently bothered me about this book. The author, in her commentary, claims that "the true Arab is the desert nomad," an idea which folklorist Dwight Reynolds has said is culturally inaccurate and...
Irish Folk Tales
AuthorHenry Glassie
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...
Swedish Folktales and Legends
AuthorLone Thygesen Blecher
ISBN0816645752
Swedish Folktales and Legends is a diverse and representative collection of stories from Sweden's centuries-old folklore tradition. Ranging from the ribald to the romantic, from the rustic to the mythical, these are lively translations of 150 tales drawn from unique sources including the Swedish...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
Beauty and the Beast and Other Classic French Fairy Tales
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0451526481
This is by and large the best anthology of "Beauty and the Beast" fairy tales out there, in my opinion, and I mean the original story that was conceived in the luxurious salons of the French nobility, not the countryside folktales of animal bridegrooms told by the peasantry, and definitely not retellings...
Northern Tales: Stories from the Native Peoples of the Arctic and Sub-Arctic Regions
AuthorHoward Norman
ISBN0375702679
From Greenland to Siberia, from Alaska to Japan, from Canada to North Pole, here are more than one hundred folktales from more than thirty tribal peoples who make their home in the arctic and subarctic regions.By turns tragic and comic, fantastic and earthy, uncanny and profound, these tales transport...
Yiddish Folktales
AuthorBeatrice Silverman Weinreich
Filled with princesses and witches, dybbuks and wonder-working rebbes, the two hundred marvelous tales that make up this delightful compendium were gathered during the 1920s and 1930s by ethnographers in the small towns and villages of Eastern Europe. Collected from people of all walks of life,...
The Gods of the Greeks
AuthorKarl Kerényi
ISBN0500270481
After a brief introduction, the complex genealogies of the gods lead him from the begettings of the Titans and from Aphrodite under all her titles and aspects, to Apollo, Hermes and the reign of Zeus, touching upon the Affairs of Pan, nymphs, satyrs, cosmogonies and the birth of mankind, until he reaches...
The Irish Fairy Book
AuthorAlfred Perceval Graves
ISBN1859580173
Welcome to a world of wild banshees, leprechauns, mermaids, battle-tested kings, churchyard demons, and treasure-guarding cats. This is the world of the Irish fairy tale, a magical realm kept alive by generations of storytellers and their avid listeners. As Alfred Perceval Graves, author of the...
Gods, Heroes and Men of Ancient Greece: Mythology's Great Tales of Valor and Romance
AuthorW.H.D. Rouse
ISBN0451527909
s/t: Mythology's Great Tales of Valor & Romance
Life among the gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece was a pretty lively affair. Take the day that the great god Zeus asked his son to split open his head with an ax...or the time Apollo "kidnapped" a boadload of Cretans so he'd have someone to worship...
Minna von Barnhelm
AuthorGotthold Ephraim Lessing
ISBN3150000106
Dieses Büchlein hat mich bestens unterhalten und vergnügt. Vor allem die Nebenfiguren wie Franziska, Werner, Just und sogar der Wirt amüsierten mich und sind in meinen Augen die reizvollsten Charaktere in diesem Lustspiel. Sie verfügen über eine ungeheure Portion Witz und Scharfsinn, die...
Fairy Tales Of Wilhelm Hauff
AuthorWilhelm Hauff
ISBN0200715941
I remember the fascination and fear related to this book when I was growing up. On one hand, the stories of beautiful far away lands and people used to leave me wanting to hear more and more; on the other hand, there were ghostly ships, dead pirates and dark secrets that used to scare me so much. I am really...
Celtic Gods, Celtic Goddesses
AuthorR.J. Stewart
ISBN0713721138
This is a weird one. Unlike most works on the Celtic deities, Stewart here presents a cross-culture view that enables him to get at his understanding of the underlying roles and similarities of the various god/desses. It usually works, but ends up being rather cursory on any individual deity's lore....
Myths of the Ancient Greeks
AuthorRichard P. Martin
ISBN0451206851
From one of today’s foremost scholars, a lively retelling of the timeless tales…Here are the myths that have influenced so much of our cultural heritage. Such age-old stories as the tragic love of Orpheus and Eurydice or Demeter’s loss of her daughter, Persephone, resonate strongly with readers...
Družba Sinjeg galeba
AuthorTone Seliškar
Roman Toneta Seliškara koji opisuje svakodnevnicu grupe dečaka na Galebovom ostrvu i uzbudljivu avanturu u koju upadaju kada odluče da ostvare svoje mladalačke snove. Glavni junak, siromašni lepuškasti dečak Ivo, živi u trošnoj kući, u malom ribarskom naselju na obali mora. Od roditelja...
Hesiod / Homeric Hymns / Epic Cycle / Homerica
AuthorHesiod
ISBN0674990633
Texts in Greek with English translations on facing pages.
Contains the extant works of Hesiod, along with practically all that remains of the post-Homeric & pre-academic epic poetry:
Preface
Hesiod
The Homeric Hymns
The Epigrams of Homer
The Epic Cycle
Homerica:...
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