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Myth & legend told as fiction
Myth & legend told as fiction
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
Foreword by Neil GaimanThe world's leading Arthurian authority reimagines one of the most beloved and influential legends--the story of King Arthur and his Knights--for a new century in this gorgeous keepsake edition, illustrated with luminous full-..
43.49£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
The definitive and comprehensive edition of Robert Graves's classic retelling of the Greek myths'Icarus disobeyed his father's instructions and began soaring towards the sun, rejoiced by the lift of his great sweeping wings. Presently, when Daedalus..
21.41£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
THE WILD AND MESMERISING DEBUT WOVEN WITH MYTH AND LEGEND'A bold, magical story' Jo Browning Wroe, Sunday Times bestselling author of A Terrible Kindness'A majestic work of the imagination . . . I woke up thinking about it' Rosie Andrews, Sunday Tim..
24.13£
Nine tales, selected and retold here by anthropologist and author Theodora Kroeber for the adult general-interest reader. The new foreword by her son, Karl Kroeber, provides context about the author's methods and describes his own personal connectio..
28.16£
Brand: Caterpillar Books
If damsels in distress and prissy princesses give you cause for despair then look no further… This enchanting anthology of 20 overlooked and forgotten fairy tales has been collected from different cultures around the world. Every story features a st..
18.22£
Deep in the woods, a warren is preyed upon by a beast known as Jack. As the rabbits struggle to combat their newest foe, a stranger arrives unlocking a secret buried beneath the earth. ISBN: 9781777959814Publisher: Bear Skin Bob PressImprint: Bear ..
19.04£
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
The Mabinogion is a collection of medieval folktales. First written down in the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the Red Book of Hergest is now housed in the library of Jesus College, Oxford. It was first translated into English by an English woman..
14.53£
Bradley is back! Michael Bradley, author of the critically acclaimed 'Swords at Sunset' and other non-fiction books on the Holy Grail (he was a researcher for The Da Vinci Code movie), has now written his first novel since the 1970s, when 'Imprint' ..
21.53£
Brand: The History Press
A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an 'Indian Princess', Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee Massacre in Cardiff and, all the while, mountain women pra..
16.53£
Brand: OUP Oxford
'In ancient tales many marvels are told us ... now you may hear such marvels told!' The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer Sivrit, ..
13.64£
Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
The classic novel of King Arthur.A beautiful paperback edition of The Once and Future King, White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend.T.H. White's masterful retelling of the Arthurian legend is an abiding classic. Here all five volumes tha..
15.50£
Brand: Princeton University Press
The original vision of Grimms' tales in English for the first timeWhen Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and..
22.26£
Brand: Dark Titan Entertainment
A lush and twisted dark fairy tale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from the award-winning author. Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced.Asher Todd comes to li..
13.66£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
Composed in medieval Iceland, Hrolf's Saga is one of the greatest of all mythic-legendary sagas, relating half-fantastical events that were said to have occurred in fifth-century Denmark. It tells of the exploits of King Hrolf and of his famous cham..
12.52£
Drawing on the rich Arabic oral tradition, Ben Jelloun tells a story of power, colonialism, gender, and sexual identity in North Africa.In this lyrical, hallucinatory novel set in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun offers an imaginative and radical critique..
27.79£
Brand: Scholastic Corporation
The critically-acclaimed first novel from historical fiction star Lucy Strange - a perfect gift for readers aged 9 and up. CHOSEN AS ONE OF AMAZON.COM'S BEST MIDDLE-GRADE BOOKS OF 2017 CHOSEN IN THE TELEGRAPH'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2016 'Perfect in s..
11.53£
Brand: AcornScholastic Inc.
30 years after Disney's The Little Mermaid movie was released, it's time for a feminist reimagining for a new generation. "A masterpiece" Marian Keyes "A fierce torrent of a book, raging and forceful and gripping. I was swept away" Kiran Millwood H..
12.55£
Brand: Flame Tree Publishing
Beowulf is an epic poem probably written in the 900s CE. It tells of events 600 years before in vivid detail, where the hero Beowulf is entreated to help a king defend his halls against the monster Grendel. The poem was written in old English, about..
12.67£
Brand: AcornScholastic Inc.
The classic, well-loved story of The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf, masterfully brought to life by Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo and Zog. Three little pigs get busy to work - they must come up with new houses that will ke..
10.93£
ISBN: 9781739605513Publisher: WW&S PublishingImprint: WW&S PublishingPublished date: 06 Aug 2022Language: EnglishWeight: 299gHeight: 228mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 16mm..
15.60£
Brand: Watkins Media Limited
This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classic tales as they would have been told when storytelling was a living art - when the audience believed i..
20.99£
Brand: Dover Publications Inc.
Definitive treasury of more than 80 traditional Welsh tales includes such favourites as "Elidyr's Sojourn in Fairy-Land," "Pergrin and the Mermaiden," "A Strange Otter," "Nansi Llwyd and the Dog of Darkness," "The Bride from the Red Lake," "Lowri Da..
11.78£
Brand: Arcturus Publishing
This deluxe box set includes 6 clothbound, gold-embossed volumes, bringing together myths and legends from all over the world. Retold by accomplished folklorists including Nathanial Hawthorne and Charles Squire, these tales encompass Greek mytholog..
101.13£
Brand: Nobrow Ltd.
Valentine Carter's fierce debut gives voice to the mostly forgotten and maligned female characters of Homer's epic The Odyssey. It is a celebratory ode to those who survive within and outside of gender norms."Even through the darker themes of femici..
20.64£