Irish Fairy Tales
10 best books like Irish Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs): Africa in History, Guess What?, English Fairy Tales, Favorite Poems, The Crane Wife, Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales: Tales From Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland & Iceland, At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things, Favole: Frozen Light, Fairies, Tatterhood and Other Tales
| Author | Basil Davidson |
| ISBN | 1842122460 |
Prior to the original publication of Africa in History, the history and development of Africa had been measured by the European concept of "civilization," applying a Eurocentric approach to African art and literature. Basil Davidson's landmark work presents the inner growth of Africa and its worldwide...
| Author | Mem Fox |
| ISBN | 0152004521 |
This is a throwback review from back when I had my dream job:
One of my duties as a librarian is to hold up the rights of academic freedom! Book banning will not be tolerated! I have already had several run-ins with parents who object to my carefully chosen selections and I am always articulate...
| Author | Flora Annie Steel |
| ISBN | 1853261335 |
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different...
| Author | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| ISBN | 0486272737 |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular American poet of his time, and one of the most famous American poets of all time. It has been said that certain of his poems — the long narratives Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha most notably — were once read in every literate home in...
| Author | Odds Bodkin |
| ISBN | 0152163506 |
Here is my blackboard response on The Crane Wife and Dawn, two traditional tales on the same theme that were quite relevant and depressing after screwing up big time with a physically and intellectually beautiful girl this summer.
What They Were About (NECESSARY SPOILER ALERTS)
The...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0517436205 |
I hate to say that these were really disappointing :(
(There was literally only ONE story about vikings in this whole book!)
Also worth noting, is that these tales are heavily influenced by early christian views of the Scandinavian countries, rather than the pantheon of norse gods and goddesses....
| Author | Diane Purkiss |
| ISBN | 0814766838 |
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.
The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
In de eenzame moerassen valt opnieuw een geestendicht te horen... De wind verhaalt dat dames met bleke gelaten nog glimlachen in een eeuwigheid en dromen en hopen op een vonkje licht in hun nachten zonder einde. Aan het einde van de herfst zal Favole een spoor van viooltjes volgen door een bevroren paradijs...
| Author | Yoshitaka Amano |
| ISBN | 1595820620 |
Yoshitaka Amano's lush ethereal paintings of magical creatures, spirits, goblins, and apparitions have been praised and admired all over the world. In Fairies he turns his considerable talent to capturing in breathtaking images characters from such beloved stories as Shakespeare's A Midsummer...
| Author | Ethel Johnston Phelps |
| ISBN | 0912670509 |
These twenty-five traditional tales come from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas. All the central characters are spirited females—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some...
American Indian Trickster Tales
| Author | Richard Erdoes |
| ISBN | 0140277714 |
Of all the characters in myths and legends told around the world, it's the wily trickster who provides the real spark in the action, causing trouble wherever he goes. This figure shows up time and again in Native American folklore, where he takes many forms, from the irascible Coyote of the Southwest,...
| Author | Otto Penzler |
| ISBN | 0307473899 |
The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined...
| Author | Richard Corben |
| ISBN | 0785122796 |
What scares you? Serial killers? Vampires? Earthquakes? Extreme sports? The dentist? Horror-comics legend Richard Corben (Creepy, Eerie) and longtime collaborator Rich Margopoulos leave no gravestone unturned as they offer up wicked spins on the classic poems of Edgar Allan Poe. Each adaptation...
The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England's Legends, from Spring-Heeled Jack to the Witches of Warboys
| Author | Jennifer Westwood |
| ISBN | 0141007117 |
The Lore of the Land: A Guide to England’s Legends relates various legends that are associated with certain place-names. There are stories of headless ghosts, witches, boggarts (JK Rowling didn’t invent the term), large black phantom dogs (including the infamous Padfoot), and entries for the...
King Arthur: Tales from the Round Table
| Author | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN | 0486421805 |
A ruler said to be the model of goodness over evil and a formidable comrade in the ever-present struggle between right and wrong, the figure of King Arthur of England prevails at the heart of the Arthurian legends. The myths surrounding his reign have been recounted in endless tales. This collection...
Get Her Off the Pitch! How sport took over my life
| Author | Lynne Truss |
| ISBN | 0007305745 |
Get Het Off the Pitch! is the story of one woman's foray into the very masculine and rather baffling world of sport. Lynne Truss, author of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, spent four years as an unlikely sports writer for The Times. It was a job that took her round the world (via the most difficult journeys and...
| Author | Molière |
| ISBN | 8476729197 |
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name, Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known dramas are Le Misanthrope, (The Misanthrope), L'Ecole des femmes (The School for Wives),...
| Author | Jean de La Fontaine |
| ISBN | 0199650721 |
La Fontaine's verse fables turned the traditional folktales derived from Aesop and a range of Oriental sources into some of the greatest, and best-loved, poetic work in French. His versions of stories such as The Hare and the Tortoise and The Wolf and the Lamb are witty and sophisticated, satirizing...
| Author | Mark LeVine |
| ISBN | 0961470151 |
Pretty good book... Gives an OK insight into some of the harmonic, rhythmic and melodic concepts that you will have to wrap your head around if you're entering the Jazz world. Don't get too caught up on some of the semantics and history because a lot of it isn't 100% accurate (for example, Mark constantly...
| Author | Margaret Alice Murray |
| ISBN | 1595479813 |
This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic religion which finally overwhelmed it. I have traced...
The Beatles: Unseen Archives
| Author | Tim Hill |
| ISBN | 0760745838 |
The Beatles: Unseen Archives is a coffee table book with 600 photos of The Beatles throughout their career and thereafter. The big selling point for the book is 200 of these photos were never previously printed. The book itself comes with descriptions of each photo and also comes with both a chronology...
| Author | Sarah Smith |
| ISBN | 0743464834 |
With this exhilarating novel from the author the San Francisco Chronicle calls "daring" and "splendid," Sarah Smith cuts to the heart of one of literature's most fascinating and enduring mysteries: the enigma of Sir William Shakespeare. Meet Joe Roper, a thoroughly modern graduate student who has...
The Little Book of Hindu Deities: From the Goddess of Wealth to the Sacred Cow
| Author | Sanjay Patel |
| ISBN | 0452287758 |
Pixar animator and Academy Award–nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay’s Super Team) brings to life Hinduism’s most important gods and goddesses (and one sacred stone) in fun, full-color illustrations, each accompanied by a short, lively profile. The Little Book of Hindu Deities is chock-full...
| Author | Johanna Sinisalo |
| ISBN | 9518514143 |
Albert Einsteinin väitetään sanoneen, että mikäli mehiläiset häviäisivät maailmasta, ihmislajilla olisi nelisen vuotta elinaikaa jäljellä.
On 2010-luvun jälkipuolisko. Ennennäkemättömän laaja ja tuhoisa mehiläisten joukkokatoaminen ravistelee Yhdysvaltoja....
