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Myth & legend told as fiction
Myth & legend told as fiction
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
A charming new pocket edition of one of Tolkien's major pieces of short fiction, and his only finished work dating from after publication of The Lord of the Rings.What began as a preface to The Golden Key by George MacDonald eventually grew into thi..
13.34£
A collection of visions shared across cyberspace, Souvenirs, a collaboration between authors Andrew Colarusso and Karen An-hwei Lee, celebrates fragments from the literary afterlife. In Souvenirs, a philosophically astute, poetically searing collect..
15.31£
Were it simply a collection of fascinating, previously unpublished folktales, Speak, Bird, Speak Again: Palestinian Arab Folktales would merit praise and attention because of its cultural rather than political approach to Palestinian studies. But it..
35.68£
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in a cave with her mother, but visions of a faraway lake come to her on the spring breeze, and when she hears a traveler speak of Artos, king of Caer Leon, sh..
20.14£
A compelling fable from an award-winning indigenous writer from Nagaland, Northeast India. Drawing on ancient tribal tales, Spirit Nights tells of a prophecy fulfilled when a number of villages are plunged into endless darkness.A terrible taboo has ..
13.86£
Brand: Pan Macmillan
Signed by the author In Stone Blind, Natalie Haynes - the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of A Thousand Ships - brings the infamous Medusa to life as you have never seen her before . . . 'So to mortal men, we are monsters. Because of our flight, ou..
21.60£
ISBN: 9781998999606Publisher: UoS Talking Shop PressImprint: UoS Talking Shop PressPublished date: 30 Jun 2021Language: EnglishWeight: 122gHeight: 129mmWidth: 198mmSpine width: 15mm..
11.37£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
This is the essential one-volume edition of Tales from 1,001 Nights, drawn from the acclaimed landmark translation published in 3 volumes by Penguin Classics in 2008. It contains 'Aladdin', 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves', 'Sindbad the Sailor' and ..
14.29£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality, colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.Ev..
24.88£
Brand: Olympia Publishers
"As he bent down to get a closer look he jumped back in surprise. Half trapped by the rock was what looked vaguely like one of those gnomes he'd seen in people's gardens. However, this one was very different; he was alive for a start and his feature..
9.66£
Brand: Abrams Books
A goblin with no body and a monster with no face. A resourceful samurai and a faithful daughter. A spirit of the moon and a dragon king.This collection of 15 traditional Japanese folktales transports readers to a time of adventure and enchantment. D..
24.83£
Brand: Flame Tree Publishing
An essential collection of chivalric romance, swordplay, wizardry and brutal feats of courage, Malory's 15th century Morte d'Arthur is one of the world's greatest pieces of myth-making, with most gothic and modern fantasy finding its roots in this s..
26.43£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
"Since the appearance of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae' around 1135, The Arthurian legends had rapidly acquired popularity in England as well as in France, where Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France developed the tradition at a..
14.22£
Brand: Liveright
Starting in 1999 with the publication of The Definitive Annotated Alice, the Norton and Liveright annotated books have become the leading series of classic, illustrated works in the English language. The long-anticipated publication of The Annotated..
75.18£
Brand: Random House
Part of the Blackwell's Five Foot Bookshelf. 70 books, one life-changing collection. View the Five Foot Bookshelf collection. __________________________ "The Bloody Chamber is such an important book to me. Angela Carter, for me, is still the one w..
13.46£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A collection of radical political fairy tales-some in English for the first time-from one of the great female practitioners of the genreHermynia Zur Mühlen (1883-1951), one of the twentieth century's great political writers, was not seemingly destin..
20.12£
Brand: Princeton University Press
Intriguing fairy tales by the librettist of Béla Bartók's opera Bluebeard's CastleA man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the rem..
20.02£
Brand: Arcturus Publishing
This deluxe clothbound 4-volume box set brings together over 200 tales from the best-loved folklorists Brother's Grimm. Readers young and old will delight in the spell-binding tales of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, derived from Germanic folklore. These i..
61.92£
Brand: Princeton University Press
A delightful collection of modern Chinese talesThe Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English. These stories have been carefully selected from more than..
20.36£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts and presented for the first time as a standalone work, the epic tale of The Fall of Gondolin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, Balrogs, Dragons and Orcs an..
13.41£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
The classic folk tales of Scotland were passed down from storyteller to storyteller, and from the first sentence they held the attention of the listeners and readers as though a spell had been cast over them, transporting them to a magical realm whe..
18.80£
Brand: Flame Tree Publishing
The ancient Mabinogi is a great world literature, and fascinating Celtic mythology. Centuries of oral storytelling worked up its intricate art, delighting every generation of all ages. The Guest translation from Middle Welsh is the most well-loved, ..
12.20£
Brand: Princeton University Press
An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads that reflect the hopes and f..
20.21£
Brand: Liveright
Apuleius's The Golden Ass, one of a handful of extant ancient novels, remains relatively unknown. Peter Singer, the renowned philosopher and author of the modern classic Animal Liberation, remedies this neglect, bringing the comic tale back to the ..
22.79£