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The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Milo Winter · myth
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete
Jonathan Scott · collection
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01
myth
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The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4)
Richard Westall · myth
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The Arabian Nights, Volume I of IV
Edward Forster · myth
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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
myth
The story in one page
The Argonautica
A king fears a one-sandaled man, so he sends fifty heroes on a boat toward a very dangerous sheepskin.
Rhodius Apollonius · poetry
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The Aspern Papers
Henry James · novel
The story in one page
The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
A Victorian doctor examines how John Milton built a universe using both ancient myths and the latest telescope discoveries.
Thomas Nathaniel Orchard · history
The story in one page
The Authoress of the Odyssey
An amateur sleuth scans the Odyssey for clues that Homer was actually a woman.
Samuel Butler · ideas
The story in one page
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories
Wives, mothers, and widows find themselves in rooms they can no longer comfortably occupy.
Kate Chopin · collection
The story in one page
The Bacchae of Euripides
A god shows up in Thebes to start a cult. The King says no.
Euripides · play
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The belles of Canterbury
Anna Bird Stewart · play
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
Henry Cabot Lodge · novel
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II.
Henry Cabot Lodge · novel
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
Henry Cabot Lodge · collection
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 08: Ruth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 11: 3 Kings
ideas
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias
myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith
myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job
ideas
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 23: Ecclesiastes
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 24: Canticle of Canticles
poetry
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 32: Daniel
myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 33: Osee
ideas
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 44: Malachias
religious
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The Bible, King James version, Book 18: Job
religious
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The Bible, King James version, Book 24: Jeremiah
ideas
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The Bible, King James version, Book 8: Ruth
ideas
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The Birds
Two men leave Athens to start a city in the clouds. Birds take over.
Aristophanes · play
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The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism
A young philosopher argues the Greeks were only beautiful because they were profoundly miserable.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · history
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The Blunderer
Molière · play
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The Book of Job
G. K. Chesterton · poetry
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The Book of Old English Ballads
George Wharton Edwards · poetry
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The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story
H. A. Guerber · poetry
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 (of 10)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 (of 10)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 06 (of 10)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 (of 10)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth
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The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 (of 10)
Richard Francis Sir Burton · myth