Fairy Tales
epub |eng | | Author:A.B. Mitford

THE OLD MAN WHO CAUSED WITHERED TREES TO FLOWER. One night the dog appeared to him again in a dream, and told him what had happened, adding that if he ...
( Category: Japanese November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-13 | Author:Brittni Chenelle [Chenelle, Brittni]

Chapter 23 Princess Charlotte A FLECK OF SCATTERED light tickled my eyelids, waking me like a soft whisper, welcoming me to the dawn. I traced its source to the white ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy November 19,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-12 | Author:Sarah Ashwood [Ashwood, Sarah]

Chapter 35 Keeping Company “I don’t think they believed me,” I said. My companion didn’t answer, and the words drifted away into the peace of the night. That was okay. ...
( Category: Fairy Tales October 7,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-21 | Author:Beverley Scherberger [Scherberger, Beverley]

Chapter 9 NIGHT SURRENDERED EASILY to the light of day as we found our way back to the cavern. We entered the opening and paused at the overhead ledge. I ...
( Category: Fairy Tales September 5,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Anna Smith Spark

Chapter Thirty-Two Tobias The Mountains of Pain. Very, very aptly named and the world’s best ever funniest joke A trail of wounded staggered through the mountains. Wailed like seagulls. Crows ...
( Category: Dark Fantasy August 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-24 | Author:Munya Andrews

El Castillo pyramid at Chichén Itzá in the Yucatan, Mexico. Each year thousands flock to this site on 21 March at the Spring equinox to view the famous descent of ...
( Category: Astronomy August 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-01 | Author:Jean La Fontaine

The heart will follow where the head May lead, and does so willingly. Whence stemmed the pagan error, spread Over a vast humanity. The ancients seized on folly, thus: Mad ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology August 2,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-03 | Author:Richard Buxton

Book 3 But as the sun was rising from the fair sea into the firmament of heaven to shed light on mortals and immortals, they reached Pylos the city of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical July 24,2019 )
epub |eng | 2009-09-28 | Author:Abolqasem Ferdowsi [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Rostam Spies on Sohrab The sun withdrew from the world, and dark night spread her troops across the plain. Eager to observe the enemy, Rostam came before Kavus. He said, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern July 18,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-06-05 | Author:unknow

The three men, none of them young and vital and each armed weapons that were pitted and worn, their blades dulled by the onset of time, stood waiting at her ...
( Category: Historical July 11,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-08-06 | Author:Green, Roger Lancelyn [Green, Roger Lancelyn]

5 Geraint and Enid Although the high Feast of Pentecost was held ever by King Arthur at Camelot where the great Round Table stood in the castle hall, he would ...
( Category: Arthurian July 4,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Graves, Robert [Graves, Robert]

1. According to Strabo (xii. 8. 21), Tantalus, Pelops, and Niobe were Phrygians; and he quotes Demetrius of Scepsis, and also Callisthenes (xiv. 5. 28), as saying that the family ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 4,2019 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2000-10-04 | Author:Saramago, José [Saramago, José]

The other lockers, she soon discovered, were empty. The fact that there was no gunpowder in the gunpowder locker, just a bit of black dust in the bottom, which she ...
( Category: Historical June 26,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Hollander

13. OF EARL STRÚT-HAROLD AND VÉSETI AND THEIR SONS At that time there ruled in the island of Zealand an earl by the name of Harold. He was nicknamed Strút-Harold,35 ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical June 7,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Skyes, Edgerton & Kendall, Alan & Sykes, Egerton [Skyes, Edgerton]

L God ‘L’ ‘The Old Black God’ of the Mayans, depicted as an old man with toothless gums with one half of his face covered with black paint. He may ...
( Category: Medieval June 6,2019 )