Category: Mythology & Folklore

Aesop's Fables

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Bodleian Library, University of Oxford : November 2021

Seller ID: 203650

ISBN-13: 9781851245376

Condition: New

For twenty-five centuries, the animal stories that go by the name of Aesop's Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. The tales are still as fresh and poignant today as they were to the ancient Greeks who composed them. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables, including "The Boy who Cried Wolf," "The Lion and the Mouse," "The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg," "The Hare and the Tortoise," and "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse," alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with thirty-se...
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Charlton Bullseye Vol. 2, #8

Price: $7.00

Publisher: N/A : January 1982

Seller ID: 89499

ISBN: B0044T8UOG

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Quite sharp, minimal age discoloration, no visible wear, a very nice copy.
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Charlton Bullseye Vol. 2, #8

Price: $5.00

Publisher: N/A : January 1982

Seller ID: 89500

ISBN: B0044T8UOG

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Good to VG, slight wear at edges and spine, back cover lightly soiled, solid and intact.
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Long Ago and Far Away: Eight Traditional Fairy Tales

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Hesperus Press : August 2012

Seller ID: 151311

ISBN-13: 9781843913627

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This edition features brand new translations of the earliest versions of some of the best-known and most-loved fairy tales. By returning to some of the earliest written records of these stories, the book unearths narratives that differ radically from those that we tell our children today.
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Knopf : March 2004

Seller ID: 194157

ISBN-13: 9780375709920

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A splendid new translation of the classic Arthurian tale of enchantment, adventure, and romance, presented alongside the original Middle English text. It is the height of Christmas and New Year's revelry when an enormous knight with brilliant green clothes and skin descends upon King Arthur's court. He presents a sinister challenge: he will endure a blow of the axe to his neck without offering any resistance, but whoever gives the blow must promise to take the same in exactly a year and a day's time. The young Sir Gawain quickly rises to the challenge, and the poem tells of the adventures he f...
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The Arabian Nights (Everyman's Library Classics Series)

Price: $32.00

Publisher: Everyman's Library : June 2014

Seller ID: 223903

ISBN-13: 9780375712418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The most famous of all story collections, The Arabian Nights, also known as The Book of the Thousand and One Nights, is beloved around the world. Composed of Persian, Arabic, Greek, Indian, and other sources that accumulated over hundreds of years, these fabulous stories-within-stories have long fired readers' imaginations with an enchanted world of flying carpets, magic lamps, genies, demons, magicians and sorceresses, carnivorous giants, and bloodthirsty bandits. Translation has played a key role in the formation of The Arabian Nights as we know it, making it far more prominent in the West ...
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library Classics)

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Modern Library : April 2001

Seller ID: 223918

ISBN-13: 9780375756757

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning an enchanting story each evening, Shahrazad always withheld the ending: A thousand and one nights later, her life was spared forever. This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most famous and representative stories from Sir Richard F. Burton's multivolume translation, and includes Burton's exte...
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The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : August 2014

Seller ID: 222118

ISBN-13: 9780199675340

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related. The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the love...
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The Sagas of Icelanders: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Price: $28.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : March 2001

Seller ID: 208616

ISBN-13: 9780141000039

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A unique body of medieval literature, the Sagas rank with the world's greatest literary treasures--as epic as Homer, as deep in tragedy as Sophocles, as engagingly human as Shakespeare. Set around the turn of the last millennium, these stories depict with an astonishingly modern realism the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured further west--to Greenland and, ultimately, the coast of North America itself.The ten Sagas and seven shorter tales in this volume include the celebrated Vinland Sagas, which recount Leif Eiriksson's ...
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The Vinland Sagas (Penguin Classics)

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : July 2008

Seller ID: 208514

ISBN-13: 9780140447767

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The bestselling saga of Eirik the Red, Leif the Lucky, and the first American explorers The all-time bestselling of the sagas in Penguin Classics, The Vinland Sagas are published here in a vibrant new translation. Consisting of The Saga of the Greenlanders and Eirik the Red's Saga, they chronicle the adventures of Eirik the Red and his son, Leif Eirikson, who explored North America 500 years before Columbus. Famous for being the first-ever descriptions of North America, and written down in the early thirteenth century, they recount the Icelandic settlement of Greenland by Eirik the Red, the ch...
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Aesop's Fables International Collector's Library 1968 Hardcover

By: (intro.), Aesop; Isaac Beshevis Singer

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Nelson Doubleday, Inc. : January 1968

Seller ID: 222511

ISBN: B002BNZ4MI

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Sharp, clean copy, slight wear at spine ends, reading ribbon in its original position.
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Aesop's Fables (Signet Classics)

By: Aesop

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Signet Classics : October 2004

Seller ID: 209750

ISBN-13: 9780451529534

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This exclusive Signet Classic edition contains 203 of Aesop's most enduring and popular fables, translated into readable, modern American English and beautifully illustrated with classic woodcuts by the great French artist J. J. Grandville. It is both amazing and wonderful that so much of the richness of our language and our moral education still owes a huge debt to a Greek slave who was executed more than two thousand years ago. Yet "sour grapes," "crying 'wolf, '" "actions speak louder than words," "honesty is the best policy," and literally hundreds of other metaphors, axioms, and ideas tha...
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The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)

By: Aesop

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : March 1998

Seller ID: 190287

ISBN-13: 9780140446494

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

'Many people are not in the least disturbed at the harm that befalls them, provided they can see their enemies' downfall first' In a series of pithy, amusing vignettes, Aesop created a vivid cast of characters to demonstrate different aspects of human nature. Here we see a wily fox outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named Aesop silencing those who mock him. Each jewel-like fable provides a warning about the consequences of wrong-doing, as well as offering a glimpse into the everyday lives of Ancient Greeks.This definitive e...
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Aesop's Fables (Chartwell Classics)

By: Aesop,

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Chartwell Books : October 2022

Seller ID: 215452

ISBN-13: 9780785841692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Aesop's Fables (Chartwell Classics)

By: Aesop,

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Chartwell Books : October 2022

Seller ID: 223430

ISBN-13: 9780785841692

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Aesop's Fables (Word Cloud Classics)

By: Aesop,

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Canterbury Classics : October 2013

Seller ID: 223409

ISBN-13: 9781607109471

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A collection of charming and enduring stories that convey morals to young and old alike. Aesop was a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece around 620-564 BC. No writings by him exist (if they ever existed at all), yet numerous stories and tales have been credited to him and have been shared through oral tradition throughout the world. Many of these use animals as the main characters to convey deeper meanings and morals that have become ingrained in our cultural--and personal--belief systems. For example, in "The Goatherd and the Goat" we learn that there is no use trying to hide wh...
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Tales and Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

By: Andersen, Hans Christian, Conroy, Patricia, Rossel, Sven H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: University of Washington Press : September 2000

Seller ID: 214033

ISBN-13: 9780295959368

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Stories that have delighted children and fascinated adults for over a century are the heritage of Hans Christian Andersen. This collection has been selected and translated with the growing audience of adults--both students and general readers--in mind, and displays the full range of Andersen's authorship, from parable to science fiction.In this fresh, contemporary translation Rossel and Conroy have endeavored to "preserve for the English-speaking audience the engaging duplicity of Andersen's style, the tension of play between his sympathetic conversational tone and his use of the studied effec...
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Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

By: Andersen, Hans Christian, Wullschlager, Jackie

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : March 2006

Seller ID: 194530

ISBN-13: 9780143039525

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of Hans Christian Andersen's famous tales, from award-winning translator Tiina Nunnally Hans Christian Andersen was the profoundly imaginative writer and storyteller who revolutionized literature for children. He gave us the now standard versions of some traditional fairy tales--with an anarchic twist--but many of his most famous tales sprang directly from his imagination. The thirty stories here range from exuberant early works such as The Tinderbox and The Emperor's New Clothes through poignant masterpieces such as The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling to...
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 1 (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : May 2010

Seller ID: 223901

ISBN-13: 9780140449389

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton's of the 1880s. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, ...
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The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights: Volume 2 (Penguin Classics)

By: Anonymous

Price: $21.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : April 2010

Seller ID: 223899

ISBN-13: 9780140449396

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The most significant translation in one hundred years of one of the greatest works of world literature From Ali Baba and the forty thieves to the voyages of Sinbad, the stories of The Arabian Nights are timeless and unforgettable. Published here in three volumes, this magnificent new edition brings these tales to life for modern readers in the first complete English translation since Richard Burton's of the 1880s. Every night for three years the vengeful King Shahriyar sleeps with a different virgin, and the next morning puts her to death. To end this brutal pattern, the vizier's daughter, ...
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Category: Mythology & Folklore