epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Joseph Jacobs [Jacobs, Joseph]

The Ass in the Lion's Skin * At the same time, when Brahma-datta was reigning in Benares, the future Buddha was born one of a peasant family; and when he ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-25 | Author:Alan Garner

The mist will always come from the fen. It bore on its breath the boating men, Saxon, Viking, iron swords, Burning thatch and crystal words. And their sons’ sons and ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Aesop

Quality, not quantity. 115. THE VIPER AND THE FILE A viper entered a carpenter’s shop, and went from one to another of the tools, begging for something to eat. Among ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-16 | Author:Peter Tate

The sound of a nightingale singing in the quiet of the night is unforgettable, and perhaps as a result is the subject of a great body of folklore. St Francis ...

mobi |eng | 2009-12-09 | Author:Davis, Kenneth C. [Davis, Kenneth C.]

WHO’S WHO OF THE CELTIC GODS This list is divided into two parts. Part I comprises the chief gods as they would have been known to early Celts in Europe ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:David Abram

Despite a few thunderstorms last month, this land is dry—too dry. All around my home the piñon pines are desiccating and dying from the deepening drought. Most of the fish ...

mobi, epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Calvino, Italo [Calvino, Italo]

*93* The Palace of the Doomed Queen In bygone days there lived an old widow who earned her bread by spinning. She had three daughters who also were spinners. Although ...

mobi | | 1993-01-30 | Author:Joseph Campbell

The body is the Bodhi-tree, The mind, a mirror bright, Take care to wipe them always clean, Lest dust on them alight. The idea here being that the essence of ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2003-10-24 | Author:Irwin, Robert [Irwin, Robert]

Essentially the same pneumatic image can be reconstructed from the Nights. When, in ‘The Tale of Omar bin al-Nu’uman’, the Muslim warrior Sharrkan wrestled with the Christian princess Abrizah, he ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Christopher Booker

`Before us was a great excavation, not very recent, for the sides had fallen in and grass had sprouted on the bottom ... all was clear ... the cache had ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1981-07-17 | Author:Jeffrey Gantz

The Death of Aífe’s Only Son Introduction ‘The Death of Aífe’s Only Son’ is an Irish Sohrab and Rustum story, more international than Irish in feeling and probably not very ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-15 | Author:Dave Isay

RAY MARTINEZ, 56 Ray Martinez: I was raised in the Colorado State Children’s Home in Denver. They kept kids from infancy to age eighteen or nineteen years old. I was ...

mobi |eng | 1962-01-01 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch; Charles Martin

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:— “Him steadfastly he marked, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Karen Armstrong

vi The Post-Axial Period (c. 200 BCE to c. 1500 CE) Hitherto in our historical survey, we have concentrated on the major intellectual, spiritual and social revolutions that forced human ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Nathan Robert Brown

• In one myth of the Pacific Northwest Tlingit tribe, a hero ascends to Heaven by shooting arrows into various celestial bodies and jumping from one to the next. • ...