Mythology & Folk Tales
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1972-01-01 | Author:Angela Carter

5 The Erotic Traveller At first I thought the landslide must have been the Doctor’s work, but no logic of any kind, no matter how circuitous, could have justified that ...
( Category: Contemporary June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-12 | Author:John Gardner

THE LAST PIECE OF LIGHT Once, long, long ago, a strange thing began to happen—all the lights in the world began to grow dim. At first, no one especially noticed. ...
( Category: Poetry June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-03 | Author:unknow

The Tattooed Men17 Igorot Once there were two young men, very good friends, who were unhappy because neither of them had been tattooed.18 They felt that they were not as ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 13,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-20 | Author:Treadwell, Harriette Taylor [Treadwell, Harriette Taylor]

"Stop, pancake," said the hen. "Do not go so fast. I want to eat you." The pancake said, "I did not stop for the old woman, I did not stop ...
( Category: Beginner Readers June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Kipling, Rudyard [Kipling, Rudyard]

THIS is the story of Taffimai Metallumai carved on an old tusk a very long time ago by the Ancient Peoples. If you read my story, or have it read ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Lang, Andrew [Lang, Andrew]

Charming was very much surprised by this answer, but he bowed low to the Princess, and begged her to accept the embroidered scarf and the tiny dog he had brought ...
( Category: Anthologies June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:Anne McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Anne]

"I must be away now, Piemur. You're to rest, without getting into any mischief." "Rest? I've been resting—" "Bored? Well, I'll ask Rokayas to give you drum mea sures to ...
( Category: Epic June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-11 | Author:Marshall, H., E [Marshall, H., E]

She bore him to the ground and kneeled upon his breast The dagger shone and fell again and yet again. And then truly Beowulf's last hour had come had his ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-01 | Author:Anne McCaffrey [McCaffrey, Anne]

"We can see as well from the windows, Menolly. Come owl" Piemur tugged at her sleeve. The fire lizards reacted to the excitement, streaking through the open windows. Menolly saw ...
( Category: Epic June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

DID you ever hear of the golden apples, that grew in the garden of the Hesperides? Ah, those were such apples as would bring a great price, by the bushel, ...
( Category: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-14 | Author:Brown, Abbie Farwell [Brown, Abbie Farwell]

The Giantess Who Would Not OF all the Æsir who sat in the twelve seats about Father Odin's wonder-throne none was so dear to the people of Midgard, the world ...
( Category: Magical Realism June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Diana L. Paxson

WOODPECKER WOKE TO THE sound of water and the briny scent of the sea. What dim recollection he could muster told him that this was to be expected. But it ...
( Category: Epic June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Kingsley, Charles [Kingsley, Charles]

CHAPTER X How the Argonauts Were Driven into the Unknown Sea SO they fled away in haste to the westward; but Aietes manned his fleet and followed them. And Lynceus ...
( Category: Literature & Fiction June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-12 | Author:Pyle, Howard [Pyle, Howard]

HE STRODE FORWARD INTO THE ROOM AND LAID HIS HAND HEAVILY ON THE BOY'S SHOULDER. The knight did not answer him. "Fetch the cord hither," said he, "and drag the ...
( Category: Classics June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-09 | Author:Hawthorne, Nathaniel [Hawthorne, Nathaniel]

THEN it flew towards the edge of the cliff, and looked round at them, as if exceedingly anxious that they should return whence they came. Eurylochus and a few of ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales June 8,2017 )