Discover myths. folklore, fables and legends.Traditional tales often thought to have basis in historical fact.
Myths & Legends Books
Penguin Putnam Inc Looking Glass
Book SynopsisIn four new novellas, Christina Henry returns to the world of Alice and Red Queen, where magic runs as freely as secrets and blood.Lovely CreatureIn the New City lives a girl with a secret: Elizabeth can do magic. But someone knows her secret--someone who has a secret of his own. That secret is a butterfly that lives in a jar, a butterfly that was supposed to be gone forever, a butterfly that used to be called the Jabberwock...Girl in Amber Alice and Hatcher are just looking for a place to rest. Alice has been dreaming of a cottage by a lake and a field of wildflowers, but while walking blind in a snowstorm she stumbles into a house that only seems empty and abandoned...When I First Came to TownHatcher wasn't always Hatcher. Once, he was a boy called Nicholas, and Nicholas fancied himself the best fighter in the Old City. No matter who fought him he always won. Then his boss tells him he's going to battle the fearsome Grinder, a man who never leaves his opponents alive...The Mercy SeatThere is a place hidden in the mountains, where all the people hate and fear magic and Magicians. It is the Village of the Pure, and though Alice and Hatcher would do anything to avoid it, it lies directly in their path...
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W by Wattpad Books Spellbound
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Les Belles Lettres Swim-Two-Birds
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Logos Verlag Berlin Vom Marchen Zur Mar Oder 'drei Mal Drei Ist Neune
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V&R unipress GmbH Formen der Erinnerung.: Mediengeschichte des
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£95.40
Dr Ludwig Reichert Im Land Der Musikerlchen: Spielerisches
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Im Land Der Musikerlchen: Eine Geschichte Zum
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Kalamos Literary Services LLP Dharmayoddha Kalki: Avatar of Vishnu
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Rocabolsillo American Gods (Spanish Edition)
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Editorial Alma Cuentos de Hadas
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Editorial Alma Cuentos de Los Hermanos Grimm
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Ma Non Troppo Criaturas Fantásticas: Criaturas Surgidas de la
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HarperCollins India Dwapar Katha: The Stories of the Mahabharata
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Blackwater Press A People Without Shame
Book SynopsisSomota is society divided by change, and by memories. When A. arrives in the protectorate shortly after the first world war, he is unsure of what to expect. Employed by the government as a linguistic anthropologist, he is tasked with documenting the benefits of the new order and reporting them to the Reverend G. But what are these benefits? In his travels throughout the region, A. finds only the physical and emotional scars of conquest, and of routine colonial administration. Yet, even as the indigenous culture is being reduced to mere fragments, he also learns of a sublime literature responding to those historical traumas. One storyteller in particular, Kehinta, begins to reveal to A. just how much has been lost. A profoundly beautiful novel commenting on the horrors of colonial oppression, trauma, love, and the power of story.Trade ReviewAdvanced Praise for A People Without Shame: "Imaginative and gripping." --Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; "A People Without Shame is an artistic triumph composed by a master craftsman whose courageous eye makes all too vivid the abundant horrors suffered by beautiful people and their culture at the hands of soul-dead colonizers eager to extinguish them. Patrick Hogan is - as Kurosawa says an artist must be - one who does not look away. Inside this grand and ambitious novel beats an urgent and epic dirge written with magic enough to awaken our collective humanity to the poetry preserved in the raging hearts of people whose stories refuse to die." --Matt Cashion, author of Last Words of the Holy Ghost; "Hogan's absorbing and stylistically inventive novel offers a stirring meditation on the cost of colonial appropriation. Told with visceral prose and cinematic sweep, it's also a unique tale of unrequited love. Kehinta, the guardian of her people's epic poem, is Hogan's great achievement, magnetic yet always just beyond our grasp, and A's quest to understand her - to wrest the meaning of a poem from her - brings all the twisted moralities of the colonial enterprise into razor-sharp relief." Ken Kwapis, director of The Office and He's Just Not That Into You; Praise for other books by Patrick Colm Hogan: "Formidably armed with statistics, intelligence, a relentless philosophical method... Hogan makes an excellent case [in The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology and Professionalism in the Study of Literature] that the world is a very real place which we can touch and shape with both our hands and our pens." --Times Higher Education Supplement; "From start to finish, [Joyce, Milton, and the Theory of Influence] delivers what it promises: clear, even-handed discussions of theoretical matrices; social, intellectual, and aesthetic contexts for influence; three text-based chapters showing Joyce at play in Miltonic fields... this is a first-class example of how to do a study of significant literary influence." --James Joyce Literary Supplement; "What is not in doubt [in On Interpretation: Meaning and Inference in Law, Psychoanalysis, and Literature]... is Hogan's achievement in writing a book that lives up to the high ideals of the Enlightenment." --The British Journal of Aesthetics; "This marvelous book [The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion] reconnects the study of literature to the themes that have made it eternally fascinating, and connects it for the first time to the sciences of mind and brain. It is a landmark in modern intellectual life, heralding an exciting new integration of the sciences and humanities." Steven Pinker, Harvard University; "Patrick Hogan analyzes literary works to tell the story of the annihilation of selves and the death of cultures that accompanied colonialism. But it is also a story of the emancipatory visions that have emerged from the crucibles of self-disavowal and massive cultural dislocations. [Colonialism and Cultural Identity: Crises of Tradition in the Anglophone Literatures of India, Africa, and the Caribbean] is a homage to human creativity under oppressive and humiliating conditions and to the indomitable resilience of the defeated and the forgotten." --Ashis Nandy, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi; "This sober, readable book [Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Literature] organizes and describes the connections between philosophy and literary theory with rare lucidity. --Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries; "The philosophy of ethics has been central to understanding human interaction since ancient times. Now Patrick Colm Hogan, the most important researcher in the twenty-first century on the relationships between psychology and worldwide literature, has written a fascinating update [Literature and Moral Feeling: A Cognitive Poetics of Ethics, Narrative, and Empathy]." --Keith Oatley, University of Toronto
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