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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- A Book of MythsJean Lang
- A Hundred Fables of La FontaineJean de La Fontaine
- A Treasury of Heroes and HeroinesClayton Edwards
- AeneidosVirgil
- Aesop’s Fables: A New TranslationAesop
- Aesop, in RhymeAesop
- Andersen's Fairy TalesH. C. Andersen
- Andersens Sproken en vertellingen: MorgenroodH. C. Andersen
- Arabische Nächte
- Belgian Fairy TalesWilliam Elliot Griffis
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- Border Ghost StoriesHoward Pease
- British GoblinsWirt Sikes
- Bulfinch’s MythologyThomas Bulfinch
- Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
- Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
- Egyptian Literature
- Eight Dwelling Places of Buddhist ImmortalsFive colors stone
- English Fairy TalesJoseph Jacobs
- Fairy dreamsJane Austin
- Fairy Tales of Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen
- Fairy Tales of the SlavAlexander Chodzko
- Famous Tales of Fact
- Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in ArtJohn Vinycomb
- Filipino Popular TalesDean S. Fansler
- Finnish Legends for English ChildrenR. Eivind
- Folk-Lore and Legends: North American IndianVarious
- Folklore as an Historical ScienceGeorge Laurence Gomme
- Four Arthurian RomancesChrétien de Troyes
- Grimms' Fairy TalesJacob Grimm
- Hero-Myths & Legends of the British RaceM. I. Ebbutt
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHesiod
- How Joy Was FoundIsobel Wylie Hutchison
- Humorous Ghost StoriesDorothy Scarborough
- HypnerotomachiaFrancesco Colonna
- Indian Fairy TalesJoseph Jacobs
- Indian PoetrySir Edwin Arnold
- Italian Popular TalesThomas Frederick Crane
- Japan: From the Japanese Government HistoryJapanese Government
- Japanische MärchenUnknown
- Jewish Fairy Tales and LegendsGertrude Landa
- JonahRobert Nathan
- King Arthur and the Knights of the Round TableThomas Malory
- King Arthur’s KnightsHenry Gilbert
- La Chanson de RolandUnknown
- Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1Thomas Malory
- Le Morte DarthurThomas Malory
- Maugis, ye SorcererLord Gilhooley
- Mediaeval Tales
- Myths and Legends of AncientE. M. Berens
- Myths and Legends of JapanF. Hadland Davis
- Myths and Legends of the Celtic RaceT. W. Rolleston
- Myths and Marvels of AstronomyRichard A. Proctor
- Myths of Babylonia and AssyriaDonald A. Mackenzie
- Myths of the CherokeeJames Mooney
- Myths of the NorsemenH. A. Guerber
- Nederlandsche VolkskundeJos. Schrijnen
- Negro Folk RhymesThomas Washington Talley
- Nights With Uncle RemusJoel Chandler Harris
- Oedipus King of ThebesSophocles
- Old MackinawW. P. Strickland
- Plant Lore, Legends, and LyricsRichard Folkard
- PlutarchPlutarch
- Puck of Pook's HillRudyard Kipling
- River LegendsBaron Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Brabourne
- Romulus: Makers of HistoryJacob Abbott
- Russian Fairy TalesUnknown
- Sagen van Koning Arthur en de Ridders van de TafelrondeNelly Montijn-de Fouw
- Sir Gawayne and the Green
- South-African Folk-TalesJames A. Honey
- Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund Spenser
- Sprookjes: Tweede verzamelingJacob Grimm
- Stories the Iroquois Tell Their ChildrenMabel Powers
- Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of ScotlandJohn Gregorson Campbell
- Tales of Folk and FairiesKatharine Pyle
- Tales of Giants from BrazilElsie Spicer Eells
- The Aeneid of VirgilVirgil
- The Arabian Nights: Their Best-known Tales
- The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance
- The Ballad of the White HorseG. K. Chesterton
- The Book of Brave Old Ballads
- The Book of Nature MythsFlorence Holbrook
- The Book of Romance
- The Book of Stories for the Story-tellerFanny E. Coe
- The Book of the EpicH. A. Guerber
- The Book of the SwordRichard F. Burton
- The Children of OdinPadraic Colum
- The Chinese Fairy BookRichard Wilhelm (editor)
- The Dew of Their YouthS. R. Crockett
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead
- The Elder and Younger EddasSæmund Sigfusson & Snorri Sturluson
- The Evolution of the DragonGrafton Elliot Smith
- The Fairy MythologyThomas Keightley
- The First Book of Adam and EveRutherford H. Platt (editor)
- The Golden AsseApuleius
- The IliadHomer
- The Indian Fairy BookCornelius Mathews
- The Kama Sutra of VatsyayanaVatsyayana
- The Kathá Sarit SágaraSomadeva
- The Legend of Sleepy HollowWashington Irving
- The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1
- The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodHoward Pyle
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- The Metamorphoses of Publius OvidusOvid
- The Myth of HiawathaHenry Rowe Schoolcraft
- The Nursery Rhyme Book
- The OdysseyHomer
- The Olive Fairy Book
- The Orkneyinga SagaAnonymous
- The Proverbs of ScotlandAlexander Hislop
- The Romance of Tristan and IseultJoseph Bédier
- The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translatedValmiki
- The Story of the GreeksH. A. Guerber
- The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I
- The Thousand Nights and a Night, Vol. 1Unknown
- The True Prophecies of NostradamusNostradamus
- The Wandering Jew — CompleteEugène Sue
- The WendigoAlgernon Blackwood
- The Wind BlowethDonn Byrne
- The Yellow Fairy BookAndrew Lang
- Three Hundred Aesop’s FablesAesop
- UndineFriedrich de la Motte Fouqué
- Vikram and the VampireRichard F. Burton
- WerwolvesElliott O'Donnell
- West African Folk-TalesW. H. Barker & Cecilia Sinclair
- Wigwam EveningsCharles A. & Elaine Goodale Eastman
- With Spurs of GoldFrances Nimmo Greene
- Woodland TalesErnest Thompson Seton
- 西遊記Cheng'en Wu