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  • Fables are stories which impart a moral or practical lesson and which usually feature animals. The most famous creator of fables was Aesop.

    The ÆSOP for Children

    By Aesop, Milo Winter (illustrator) Murine Press, July 1905 ISBN: 9781936690480 Fiction, Classics Language:  English
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  • In 1910, when Kunio Yanagita (1875-1962) wrote and published The Legends of Tono in Japanese, he had no idea that 100 years later, his book would become a Japanese literary and folklore classic…
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    The Legends of Tono: 100th Anniversary Edition

    By Yanagita, Kunio rating of short cover   ( 36 customer ratings) Lexington Books, January 1955 ISBN: 9780739130247 Asian, Far Eastern Language:  English
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  • First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies."The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago…

    The Way to Rainy Mountain

    By N. Scott Momaday University of New Mexico Press, September 1976 ISBN: 9780826326966 Fairy Tales & Folklore, Folklore Language:  English
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  • “I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”Haunted by the…
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    Till We Have Faces - A Myth Retold

    By C. S. Lewis rating of short cover   ( 20747 customer ratings) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, July 1980 ISBN: 9780547564067 Fiction, Classics Language:  English
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  • "Beneath the deadly dull history of Ontario lies a myriad of fascinating, but little-known stories. Did you know: Sir John A. Macdonald was born in an Ontario town, not in Scotland? Karl Marx was once…

    The House of Ontario

    By Royce MacGillivray Dundurn, July 1983 ISBN: 9781554886456 Fiction, Historical Language:  English
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  • "A uniquely entertaining book: edifying scholarship, diverting social history."—Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times"[The book] captures the spirit of convivial storytelling and even encourages the…

    The Mexican Pet: More "New" Urban Legends and Some Old Favorites

    By Jan Harold Brunvand rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) W. W. Norton & Company, April 1988 ISBN: 9780393346558 Fairy Tales & Folklore, Folklore Language:  English
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  • Combines in a single volume the complete text of the definitive two-volume classic, citing all the ancient myths. @GoldenFarce Good, the gals stand outside my house all the time. The constant…

    The Greek Myths: Volume 1

    By Robert Graves rating of short cover   ( 403 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, December 1990 ISBN: 9781101554982 Social Science, Folklore & Mythology Language:  English
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  • This book is a lighthearted look at some of the stories Texans have been improving on since their first telling around the glow of a campfire. A continuation of the entertaining collection of Wild…

    More Wild Camp Tales

    By Mike Blakely Taylor Trade Publishing, January 1996 ISBN: 9781461625452 Americas, United States Language:  English
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  • There have always been women among pirates and sea robbers. Metaphors of mysterious and destructive femininity may have perennially been assigned to the sea and its dangers, but the real women who…

    Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger

    By Gabriel Kuhn, Marion Meinzerin, Ulrike… Black Rose Books, April 1997 ISBN: 9781551643564 Language:  English
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  • Kushner's imaginative retelling of the classic mystical legend, The Dybbuk, by S. Ansky, the noted Russian and Yiddish-language folklorist, novelist and dramatist. Ansky formed an expedition which…

    A Dybbuk - and Other Tales of the Supernatural

    By Joachim Neugrochel, Tony Kushner rating of short cover   ( 1 customer rating) Theatre Communications Group, December 1997 ISBN: 9781559366984 History, Jewish Language:  English
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