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"Introducing an instant classic--master storyteller Neil Gaiman presents a dazzling version of the great Norse myths. Neil Gaiman has long been inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction. Now he turns his attention back to the source, presenting a bravura rendition of the great northern tales. In Norse Mythology, Gaiman stays true to the myths in envisioning the major Norse pantheon: Odin, the highest of the high,...
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Bulfinchs Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
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A certain eighteenth-century German noble ventured abroad for military service and returned with a series of amusingly outrageous stories. Baron Munchausen's astounding feats included riding cannonballs, traveling to the Moon, and pulling himself out of a bog by his own hair. Listeners delighted in hearing about these unlikely adventures, and in 1785, the stories were collected and published as Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels...
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This volume contains James Stephen's fantastic fairy tale, "The Crock of Gold". A fusion of philosophy and Irish folklore, "The Crock of Gold" revolves around the events that unfolded when the god Pan appeared on the Emerald Isle. How Angus Og reacts to Pan's arrival, and what happens to the Daughter of Murrachu who becomes caught in the turmoil, are the questions that drive this humorous and charming tale. Complete with magic, fairies and leprechauns,...
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"The Children of Odin" is Padraic Colum's popular retelling of famous Norse Myths for children. With illustrations by William Pogany this volume contains the following stories: Far Away and Long Ago; The Building of the Wall; Iduna and Her Apples: How Loki Put the Gods in Danger; Sif's Golden Hair: How Loki Wrought Mischief in Asgard; How Brock Brought Judgment on Loki; How Freya Gained Her Necklace and How Her Loved One Was Lost to Her; How Frey...
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Irish Fairy Tales is a selection of mythical stories highlighting themes of love, duty and deception in the magical setting of ancient and medieval Ireland. Each narrative presents internal and external conflicts that test the moral code of its leading characters.
James Stephens explores Ireland's cherished history though the eyes of fabled hunters, soldiers, kings and queens. Many stories feature the Fianna, a group of tribal warriors, and their...
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From the author of the stunning debut novel The Girl with Glass Feet comes another magical story of love, discovery, and nature
When Elsa's father is killed in a tornado, all she wants is to escape—from New York, her job, her boyfriend—to somewhere new, anonymous, set apart. For some years she has been haunted by a sight once seen from an airplane: a tiny, isolated settlement called Thunderstown. Thunderstown has received
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Hustens letzte Tage ist ein literarisch bedeutsames Gedicht von C. F. Meyer. Vor dem Hintergrund der deutschen Reichsgründung 1871gelang ihm damit der Durchbruch. Es handelt vom sterbenskranken Ritter und Humanisten Ulrich von Hütten, der auf die Insel Ufenau kommt und sich einrichtet, um dort seine letzten Tage zu verleben. Ungebeugt rechtfertigt er seinen Kampf für die Reformation und wider das Papsttum.
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I put my hand in my pocket for my pocket-book, but I could not find it. We had now reached a part of our road familiar enough to both of us. Along that very path Ellen and I had walked years ago. Under those very trees, on that very seat had we sat, and she and I were there again. All the old confidences, confessions, tendernesses, rushed upon me.
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"Das Leiden eines Knaben" ist eine kurze Novelle von C.F. Meyer. Der Autor hatte bereits als Jugendlicher mit Depressionen zu kämpfen, weshalb er einige Zeit in einer Nervenheilanstalt verbrachte. Nach dem frühen Tod des Vaters und dem Selbstmord seiner Mutter erbte er genug Geld, um eine längere Italienreise zu unternehmen, die den jungen Mann sehr beeindruckte. Der dem Realismus verschriebene Dichter gehört zu den bedeutendsten deutschsprachigen...
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This vintage book contains a collection of 34 fantastic stories from Japanese folklore. These magical stories full of wit, pun, myth, and riddle will appeal to lovers of Japanese literature and culture, and they would make for fantastic additions to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "The Travels of Two Frogs", "The Child of the Thunder", "The Tongue-cut Sparrow", "The Fire-fly's Lovers", "The Battle of the Ape and the Crab", "The...
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"Die Versuchung des Pescara" ist eine Novelle von C.F. Meyer. Sie wurde 1887 veröffentlicht und gilt als eines seiner bedeutendsten Werke. Die Erzählung spielt im Italien des frühen 16. Jahrhunderts. In dieser Zeit ist Italien politisch in Stadtstaaten und diverse Fürstentümer im Norden, den Kirchenstaat im Zentrum und das spanisch beherrschte Neapel im Süden zersplittert. Aufgrund des relativen Reichtums der italienischen Stadtstaaten kam es...
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Geoffry Hamlyn recollects the life, times and adventures of the Buckleys, Brentwood's, Dr Mulhaus, Tom Troubridge, Frank Maberly, his great friend Jim Stockbridge and the tragic Mary Thornton and her liaison with George Hawker. Initially the action is in Devon, then switches to Australia where they make their fortunes. This is classic Victorian fare, and a perfect example of how the Victorians structured and wrote before the influence of the great...
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The 20th April 1814, an almost cloudless, perfectly sunny day, saw all London astir. On that day Lewis the Eighteenth was to come from Hartwell in triumph, summoned by France to the throne of his ancestors. London had not enjoyed too much gaiety that year. It was the year of the great frost. Nothing like it had been known in the memory of man. In the West of England, where snow is rare, roads were impassable and mails could not be delivered. Four...
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My great-grandfather was killed in the Revolution; my grandfather fought in the War of 1812; my father sacrificed his health in the Civil War; but I, though born in New England, am the first of my family to emigrate to this country-the United States of America. That sounds like a riddle or a paradox. It isn't; it's a plain statement of fact. As a matter of convenience let me call myself Carleton. I've no desire to make public my life for the sake...
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I NEVER saw that land before, And now can never see it again Yet, as if by acquaintance hoar Endeared, by gladness and by pain, Great was the affection that I bore To the valley and the river small, The cattle, the grass, the bare ash trees, The chickens from the farmsteads, all Elm-hidden, and the tributaries Descending at equal interval The blackthorns down along the brook With wounds yellow as crocuses Where yesterday the labourers hook Had sliced...
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Sylvie and Bruno (1889) is a novel by Lewis Carroll. Originally conceived as a pair of short stories published in Aunt Judy's Magazine in 1867, Sylvie and Bruno eventually became a full length, two-volume novel. Although less popular than his Alice books, the novel remains a powerful example of Carroll's imaginative range and ability to capture the surreal nature of everyday life. "The Warden, a tall, dignified man with a grave but very pleasant face,...
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One of Hilaire Belloc's most famous works, "Cautionary Tales for Children" satirizes a genre of admonitory children's literature popular in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The seven stories contained in this work are macabre parodies of childhood lessons, and will entertain more sophisticated readers who can appreciate these tales of disproportionate punishment. Presented in a classic picture book style, illustrators have captured the...
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