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  • Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs

    Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology

    by Hourly History ...
    Series series Greek Mythology - Norse Mythology - Egyptian Mythology - Celtic Mythology
    The gifted W.B. Yeats wrote of his own people "...even a newspaperman, if you entice him into a cemetery at midnight, will believe in phantoms, for everyone is a visionary if you scratch him deep enough. But the Celt, unlike any other, is a visionary without scratching." This introduction to Celtic Mythology will serve the novice well – for it is a complicated history with the earliest written ... Read more

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  • Norse Mythology

    by Stephan Weaver ...
    Norse Mythology is not only a relic of history but a fascinating record that exhibits humanities unending stream of creativity. This eBook delves into the past and emerges with a legion of breath taking accounts of events, gods, heroes, creatures, worlds and much more.Inside you will learn about…✓ Gods and Goddesses✓ The Nine Worlds✓ Heroes and Legends✓ Mythological Creatures✓ Ten Little Known ... Read more

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  • Beneath the Moon

    Fairy Tales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World

    by Yoshi Yoshitani ...
    Powerful and universal retellings of seventy-eight divine stories, legends, and myths from around the world, each accompanied by a gorgeous illustration from acclaimed artist Yoshi Yoshitani.Many of the lessons we learn are shared stories passed among cultures and generations. In this riveting collection of fables and folktales from cultures across the globe, characters from beloved fairytales, ... Read more

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  • Discourses and Selected Writings

    by Epictetus ...
    Translated by Robert Dobbin ...
    Contains The Discourses/Fragments/Enchiridion'I must die. But must I die bawling?'Epictetus, a Greek Stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicopolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. The Discourses argue that happiness lies in learning to perceive ... Read more

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  • The Power of Myth

    by Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war.“Campbell has become the rarest of intellectuals in American life: a serious thinker who has been embraced by the popular culture.”—NewsweekThe Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his ... Read more

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  • Mythology

    by Edith Hamilton, Aphrodite Trust, Apollo Trust ...
    Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike.Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture—the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human ... Read more

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  • Nineteen Eighty-Four

    by George Orwell ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.' 1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell's final novel, was completed in difficult conditions shortly before his early death. It is one of the most influential and widely-read novels of the post-war period, and has been a huge international bestseller over many decades. Continually in print, it has ... Read more

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  • The Golden Ass

    by Apuleius ...
    Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of the many adventures of a young man whose fascination with witchcraft leads him to be transformed into a donkey. The bewitched Lucius passes from owner to owner - encountering a desperate gang of robbers and being forced to perform lewd 'human' tricks on stage - until the Goddess Isis finally breaks the spell and ... Read more

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  • A People's History of Classics

    Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939

    by Edith Hall, Henry Stead ...
    A People’s History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the ... Read more

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  • The Watkins Book of English Folktales

    by Neil Philip ...
    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 in boggarts and hobgoblins, local witches and will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts and giants, cunning foxes and royal frogs. Find “Jack the Giantkiller”, “Tom Tit ... Read more

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  • The Poetic Edda

    The Poetic Edda comprises a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage. Its tales of strife and death form a repository, in poetic form, of Norse mythology and heroic lore, embodying both the ethical views and the cultural life of the North during the late heathen and early Christian times.Collected by an unidentified ... Read more

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  • The Greek Plays

    Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

    by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the KingFeaturing translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Mary Lefkowitz, and James RommThe great plays of Ancient Greece are ... Read more

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  • Great Goddesses

    Life Lessons From Myths and Monsters

    by Nikita Gill ...
    Bestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose retelling the legends of the Goddesses, both great and small, in their own words.With lyrical prose and striking verse, beloved poet Nikita Gill (Fierce Fairytales, Wild Embers) uses the history of Ancient Greece and beyond to explore and share the stories of the mothers, warriors, creators, ... Read more

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  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces

    by Joseph Campbell ...
    Series series The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
    Explore the Hero's Journey in stories as old as humanity and as new as last night's dreamThe latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. — Joseph CampbellSince its release in 1949, The Hero with a Thousand Faceshas influenced millions of readers by ... Read more

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  • The Oresteia

    Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

    by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles, W. B. Stanford ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneia ... Read more

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  • Great Dialogues of Plato

    by Plato ...
    Translated by W. H. D. Rouse ...
    Written in the form of debates, Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love. ... Read more

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  • A History of Intelligence and 'Intellectual Disability'

    The Shaping of Psychology in Early Modern Europe

    by C.F. Goodey ...
    Starting with the hypothesis that not only human intelligence but also its antithesis 'intellectual disability' are nothing more than historical contingencies, C.F. Goodey's paradigm-shifting study traces the rich interplay between labelled human types and the radically changing characteristics attributed to them. From the twelfth-century beginnings of European social administration to the onset ... Read more

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  • The Histories

    by Robin Waterfield ...
    Translated by Carolyn Dewald ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Herodotus is not only known as the `father of history', as Cicero called him, but also the father of ethnography; as well as charting the historical background to the Persian Wars, his curiosity also prompts frequent digression on the cultures of the peoples he introduces. While much of the information he gives has proved to be astonishingly accurate, he also entertains us with delightful tales of ... Read more

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  • The Meaning of Myth: With 12 Greek Myths Retold and Interpreted by a Psychiatrist

    Ancient Wisdom, #1

    by Neel Burton ...
    Series Book 1 - Ancient Wisdom
    Not just the stories, but what they mean. Are myths really the repositories of deep wisdom and mystical secrets?Readers' Favorite Book Award WinnerWhat is myth, and why does it have such a hold on the human imagination? How does myth relate to near forms such as legend and fairy tale, and to other modes of understanding such as religion and science? What is a hero, what is a monster, and what ... Read more

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  • 100 Obras Maestras de la Literatura Universal

    by Homero, Sófocles, Platón, Aristóteles, Apuleius, Seneca, San Agustín, Sun Tzu, Teresa de Jesús, Ignacio de Loyola, Nicolás Maquiavelo, Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Miguel Cervantes, Hans Christian Andersen, Hermanos Grimm, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Tomás Moro, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Henry James, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Washington Irving, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Jack London, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Alejandro Dumas, Alejandro Dumas hijo, Julio Verne, Emilio Salgari, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Nikolái Gógol, Fiódor Dostoyevski, León Tolstoi, Antón Chéjov, Mijaíl Bakunin, Virginia Woolf, Fernando de Rojas, Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Francisco de Quevedo, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Baltasar Gracián, José Zorrilla, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Juan Valera, Leopoldo Alas, Benito Pérez Galdós, Miguel De Unamuno, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Duque de Rivas, José Martí, Antonio Machado, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán, Jorge Isaacs, Horacio Quiroga, Federico García Lorca, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rubén Darío, Charles Baudelaire, Henrik Ibsen, Gibrán Jalil Gibrán, José Rizal ...
    Esta colección presenta las obras más influyentes de la literatura mundial. Contenido: La Ilíada y La Odisea Edipo Rey El Banquete Metafísica La metamorfosis De la Brevedad de la Vida Las Confesiones de San Agustín El Arte de la Guerra Cantar de Mío Cid Popol Vuh El castillo interior Ejercicios Espirituales El Príncipe La divina Comedia El Decamerón Lazarillo de Tormes Don Quijote de la Mancha Los ... Read more

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  • So We Read On

    How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures

    by Maureen Corrigan ...
    The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby—"The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't."Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite of passage in the reading lives of millions. But how well do we really know The Great Gatsby? As Maureen Corrigan, Gatsby lover ... Read more

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  • The Orphic Hymns

    The best-selling English translation of the mysterious and cosmic Greek poetry known as the Orphic Hymns.At the very beginnings of the Archaic Age, the great singer Orpheus taught a new religion that centered around the immortality of the human soul and its journey after death. He felt that achieving purity by avoiding meat and refraining from committing harm further promoted the pursuit of a ... Read more

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  • The Iliad

    (OWC Hardback)

    by Homer ...
    Translated by Anthony Verity ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'War, the bringer of tears...' War, glory, despair, and mourning: for 2,700 years the Iliad has gripped listeners and readers with the story of Achilles' anger and Hector's death. This tragic episode during the siege of Troy, sparked by a quarrel between the leader of the Greek army and its mightiest warrior, Achilles, is played out between mortals and gods, with devastating human consequences. It ... Read more

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  • Navigating the Stars

    Maori Creation Myths

    by Witi Ihimaera ...
    From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maori myths for the twenty-first century. In this milestone volume, Ihimaera traces the history of the Maori people through their creation myths. He follows Tawhaki up the vines into the firmament, Hine-titama down into the land of the dead, Maui to the ends of the earth, and the giants and turehu who ... Read more

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