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10 best books like Myths and Legends of China (E.T.C. Werner): American Fairy Tales, The Lore of the Unicorn, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, The Lilac Fairy Book, Japanese Tales, Japanese Fairy Tales, Popular Tales from the Norse, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children, Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights

American Fairy Tales
AuthorL. Frank Baum
ISBN0486236439
In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's...
The Lore of the Unicorn
AuthorOdell Shepard
ISBN0517371561
An exhaustive look at the historical record.

Those of you who expect fairy tales -- or even chivalric romance -- will be surprised. The documents are actually pretty much all "natural history" -- of the era, which obviously was dominated by hearsay and travelers tales. Also comparisions to...
Traditional Irish Fairy Tales
AuthorJames Stephens
ISBN0486291669
'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,...
The Lilac Fairy Book
AuthorAndrew Lang
ISBN0486219070
About 2, maybe 3? years ago, I set myself the goal of reading all the color fairy tale collections edited by Andrew Lang. I vaguely remembered reading some of them when I was in elementary school, but I don't recall too many of the stories.

I was inspired to do this by Robin McKinley, who is one of...
Japanese Tales
AuthorRoyall Tyler
Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these...
Japanese Fairy Tales
AuthorYei Theodora Ozaki
ISBN4805308818
Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...
Popular Tales from the Norse
AuthorGeorge 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...
Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland
AuthorW.W. Gibbings
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,...
Celtic Tales, Told to the Children
AuthorLouey Chisholm

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...
Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights
AuthorE. Dixon
Fairy Tales From The Arabian Nights by E. Dixon / 1893
Penerbit: PT. Elex Media Komputindo @elexmedia / 2018
ISBN : 978-602-04-8592-8 / 305 halaman ====
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Ahhh.. Dibaca selambat apa pun, pasti sampai juga di akhir halaman. .
Welsh Fairy Tales
AuthorWilliam Elliot Griffis
ISBN1151290572
The author of this retold collection of Welsh fairy tales was an American of Welsh ancestry. In his introduction he pointedly gives thanks to 'those inheritances from the world of imagination, for which the Cymric Land was famous, even before the days of either Anglo-Saxon or Norman.'

Griffis...
Myths and Legends of Japan
AuthorF. Hadland Davis
ISBN0486270459
The most popular myths and legends of Japanese culture are charmingly retold in English in this handsomely illustrated book. Here are myths of gods, heroes and warriors; legends of Buddha, and of the goddess Benten and the god Daikoku; tales of the sea and of Mount Fuji; accounts of superstitions and...
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.
In...
The Walled Garden
AuthorMichele Lang
A young woman with a turbulent past discovers a secret world under New York City in the 1980s. Here there be magic, and monsters After surviving a brutal attack, Mireya Rodriguez must leave the past to the past, and start living again. A seemingly chance encounter with a man named Jonathan Mellon leads...
The Socratic Dialogues
AuthorPlato
The Greek philosopher Socrates lived by the tenet that the path to truth was built on questions. When conversing with his students and followers he sought to reach the foundations of their views, asking questions until he found contradictions that exposed faults in their logic. This process became...
Origin Scroll
AuthorRichard S. Tuttle
ISBN0971089728
Origin Scroll is the first volume of the Targa Trilogy and the cornerstone of the epic fantasy Alcea Collection which spans sixteen volumes in three series. Alexander Tork is an apprentice lumberman, a fifteen year old who is forced to take the lead when his village is attacked by a pack of vicious beasts....
Escaping Destiny
AuthorJeffrey Pierce
ISBN1456572326
An ebony finger points skyward, emerging from the center of Node. Known simply as The Gate, it disappears into the clouds, massive spokes extending from the immense structure to stretch through the streets of the largest human city. No one knows who built the towering obelisk, but all are aware of those...
The Book of Nature Myths
AuthorFlorence Holbrook
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English Fairy Tales
AuthorJoseph Jacobs
Joseph Jacobs complained in the 19th century, "What Perrault began, the Grimms completed." All the fairy tales the children knew were French or German in origin. He tried to amend it, and so we have this and More English Fairy Tales.

You will indeed recognize a few, most likely. "The Three Bears"...
World Mythology
AuthorRoy Willis
ISBN0805049134
This bad boy is chock full of information, and I think it would have been better if I had taken more time to read it, but alas, my OCD would not let me end the year with an unfinished book. It would be great as a reference tool, and one I would thoroughly enjoy as a companion in a class on the same topic.

As...
Primal Myths: Creation Myths Around the World
AuthorBarbara C. Sproul
ISBN0060675012
This was a big DID NOT FINISH for me. I love mythology, and I've been trying to broaden my understanding of it. I picked up this book hoping to get a taste of various mythologies from the perspective of each people's creation myth. What I got was a lot of long-winded, rambling, dry overviews.

I didn't...
Classical Myth
AuthorBarry B. Powell
ISBN0131962949
For courses in Classical Mythology in Classics, English, or other departments. Comprehensive and scholarly, this well-designed and class-tested text presents Greek and Roman myths in a lively and easy-to-read manner. It features fresh translations, numerous illustrations (ancient and modern)...
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