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10 best books like New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology (Félix Guirand): Legends of Valor, The Arthurian Encyclopedia, Magical Beasts, Dwarfs, Myths of the Greeks and Romans, Myths & Legends of the British Isles, The Greek Myths: 2, Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend, قاموس أساطير العالم, Giants and Ogres

Legends of Valor
AuthorBrendan Lehane
ISBN0809452219
This is almost like reading two different books. I was convinced I was going to give this book a 2-star rating based on the first half. It starts with a collection of legends about an Irish hero named Cuchulain. Many of the legends have tons of internal references, and the text quite often tells you to (see...
The Arthurian Encyclopedia
AuthorNorris J. Lacy
ISBN0872261646
This review is of the 1986, red-covered version of THE ARTHURIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, chief editor Norris Lacy. It's a big book, 649 pages, and appears to be substantially the same volume as the yellow-jacketed edition pictured above. It's worth understanding that the general field of "Arthuriana" embraces...
Magical Beasts
AuthorEllen Galford
ISBN0809452294
To learn more about the Enchanted World Series and see this full review, please visit www.readrantrockandroll.com

Magical Beasts is the second book in the Enchanted World Series that I've read recently. The book is split into three sections/chapters and covers many different beasts and...
Dwarfs
AuthorTim Appenzeller
ISBN0809452243
This book is similar in appearance, style, and presentation to other volumes in the Time-Life Enchanted World series, but contains content focusing on yet another creature of myth and fantasy: the dwarf. As with other Enchanted World volumes, "Dwarfs" contains numerous color illustrations that...
Myths of the Greeks and Romans
AuthorMichael Grant
ISBN0452011620
s/t: A fascinating study of the world's great myths and their impact on the creative arts through the ages
In this insightful and absorbing book, distinguished historian and classical scholar Michael Grant demonstrates the dynamic effect that ancient mythology has had on the creative efforts...
Myths & Legends of the British Isles
AuthorRichard Barber
ISBN1843830396
The British Isles have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology once as relevant to the races which settled the islands as the Greek and Roman gods were to the classical world. The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries...
The Greek Myths: 2
AuthorRobert Graves
ISBN0140010270
Robert Graves, classicist, poet, and unorthodox critic, retells the Greek legends of gods and heroes for a modern audience 

And, in the two volumes of The Greek Myths, he demonstrates with a dazzling display of relevant knowledge that Greek Mythology is “no more mysterious in content...
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
AuthorMiranda Aldhouse-Green
ISBN0500279756
Warlike, exuberant and superstitious, the ancient Celts saw divinities in every facet of life and nature, venerating deities of the sun, thunder, water, war, healing, hunting, fertility and death. They possessed a complicated array of concepts and rituals, a powerful priesthood - the Druids - and...
قاموس أساطير العالم
AuthorArthur Cotterell
ISBN9789334074
أصل الأسطورة:
إن الاهتمام الحديث بالأسطورة بشكل اعترافاً عاماً بقوة هذه القصص الشعرية، ولكن لازال هناك عدم اتفاق على مدى قوة الأسطورة فأفلاطون مثلاً...
Giants and Ogres
AuthorTristram Potter Coffin
ISBN0809452383
A series from Time Life Books on myth, superstitions, and legend, brought to life with beautiful illustrations, and written in a fluid like prose that brings to mind a storyteller sitting by a crackling fire sharing his tales.

I remember reading some of the books in this series when I was younger....
Myths of Greece and Rome
AuthorThomas Bulfinch
ISBN0140056432
Orpheus leading his beloved Eurydice back to life … Ulysses battling to resist the mesmerising Sirens’ song … The tragedy of the vengeful Medea …

The timeless stories of the gods and goddesses of Greece and Rome are charged with passion and romance, magic and murder. Each one is brought...
The Druids
AuthorStuart Piggott
ISBN0500273634
3 из 5, потому что зубодробительное написание текста стало и в каком-то роде и открытием, и головной болью. Если хотите поистязать мозг-милости просим,...
Juno Beach: Canada's D-Day Victory, June 6, 1944
AuthorMark Zuehlke
ISBN1553650506
On June 6, 1944, the greatest armada in history stood off Normandy and the largest amphibious invasion ever began as 107,000 men aboard 6,000 ships pressed toward the coast. Among them were 14,500 Canadians, who were to land on a five-mile-long stretch of rocky ledges fronted by a dangerously exposed...
A Dictionary of Superstitions
AuthorIona Opie
ISBN0192829165
Is it good or bad luck to mention a pig to a fisherman? What does it portend when you break a double-yolked egg? Or when you witness a headless shadow? How many frogs do you need to cure whooping cough? And what's all this about black cats?
Ranging from the familiar to the bizarre, and including everything...
Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
AuthorJoan Breton Connelly
ISBN0691127468
In this sumptuously illustrated book, Joan Breton Connelly gives us the first comprehensive cultural history of priestesses in the ancient Greek world. Connelly presents the fullest and most vivid picture yet of how priestesses lived and worked, from the most famous and sacred of them--the Delphic...
The Book of Beginnings
AuthorTime-Life Books
ISBN0809452650
My review for all of these books in this series is the same.

Time-Life has once again done an outstanding job putting together a series. From cover to cover they are thoughtful, beautiful books. I'm starting to sound generic, but it's true.
I'm a DK fan, I like white backgrounds and side notes...
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