The Mythology, Legends & Folklore collection gathers the oldest stories humanity has told — the myths of gods and heroes, the fairy tales of the brothers Grimm and Andersen, and the legends and folk traditions of cultures around the world. From Greek and Norse mythology to Arthurian romance and global folklore, it is a treasury of the human imagination.
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- Four Arthurian RomancesChrétien de Troyes
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)Unknown
- The OdysseyHomer
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableThomas Malory
- The Kama Sutra of VatsyayanaVatsyayana
- Grimms' Fairy TalesJacob Grimm
- Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a DreameFrancesco Colonna
- UndineFriedrich de la Motte Fouqué
- The Romance of Tristan and IseultJoseph Bédier
- The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- The IliadHomer
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- Oedipus King of ThebesSophocles
- The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance
- The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving
- Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1Thomas Malory
- The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verseValmiki
- Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansPlutarch
- Aesop's Fables; a new translationAesop
- The Egyptian Book of the dead
- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 / Books 1, 2 and 3
- The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. / Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments
- The AeneidVirgil
- Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Translated by George Fyler TownsendAesop
- The Ballad of the White HorseG. K. Chesterton
- Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund Spenser
- Andersen's Fairy TalesH. C. Andersen
- AeneidosVirgil
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHesiod
- The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & IIOvid
- Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight / An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)
- Sagen van Koning Arthur en de Ridders van de TafelrondeNelly Montijn-de Fouw
- Fairy dreamsJane Austin
- Nederlandsche VolkskundeJos. Schrijnen
- The Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona AffairsPetronius Arbiter
- Maugis, ye sorcererLord Gilhooley
- How joy was foundIsobel Wylie Hutchison
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- JonahRobert Nathan
- Hero-Myths & Legends of the British RaceM. I. Ebbutt
- Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
- The Book of Romance
- The Wandering Jew — CompleteEugène Sue
- The Wind BlowethDonn Byrne
- River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father RhineBaron Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne
- Romulus / Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-loreUnknown
- WerwolvesElliott O'Donnell
- Italian Popular TalesThomas Frederick Crane
- A Book of MythsJean Lang
- Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
- Egyptian Literature / Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
- King Arthur's Knights / The Tales Re-told for Boys & GirlsHenry Gilbert
- Eight dwelling places of Buddhist immortalsFive colors stone
- Folklore as an Historical ScienceGeorge Laurence Gomme
- Nights With Uncle RemusJoel Chandler Harris
- Old Mackinaw; Or, The Fortress of the Lakes and its SurroundingsW. P. Strickland
- Negro Folk Rhymes / Wise and Otherwise: With a StudyThomas Washington Talley
- The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern MythsPadraic Colum
- Stories the Iroquois Tell Their ChildrenMabel Powers
- The Evolution of the DragonGrafton Elliot Smith
- The Nursery Rhyme Book
- Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and HerdsmenAlexander Chodzko
- Jewish Fairy Tales and LegendsGertrude Landa
- Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 11 (of 15), RomanCharles Morris
- The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American IndiansHenry Rowe Schoolcraft
- Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and RomeE. M. Berens
- Puck of Pook's HillRudyard Kipling
- The Indian Fairy Book: From the Original LegendsCornelius Mathews
- The Dew of Their YouthS. R. Crockett
- Andersens Sproken en vertellingen / MorgenroodH. C. Andersen
- The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales
- A Hundred Fables of La FontaineJean de La Fontaine
- Sprookjes: Tweede verzamelingJacob Grimm
- With Spurs of Gold: Heroes of Chivalry and their DeedsFrances Nimmo Greene
- The Book of Stories for the Story-tellerFanny E. Coe
- Mediaeval Tales
- Aesop, in Rhyme: Old Friends in a New DressAesop
- The Story of the GreeksH. A. Guerber
- The Book of Brave Old Ballads
- A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines / A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.Clayton Edwards
- Arabische Nächte
- Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy / Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls
- Indian Poetry / Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.Sir Edwin Arnold
- Border Ghost StoriesHoward Pease
- Finnish Legends for English ChildrenR. Eivind
- Woodland TalesErnest Thompson Seton
- The Olive Fairy Book
- Myths of the Cherokee / Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American EthnologyJames Mooney
- The Book of Nature MythsFlorence Holbrook
- 西遊記Cheng'en Wu
- Myths and Marvels of AstronomyRichard A. Proctor
- La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon GautierUnknown
- Japanische MärchenUnknown