Books: What to Know

Myths That Still Shape Movies

The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.

The library

2,535 myth & legend

Harper's Young People, June 22, 1880

Harper's Young People, June 28, 1881

Harper's Young People, June 29, 1880

Hasisadra's Adventure

Thomas Henry Huxley · myth

Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Charles W. Whistler · novel

Hawaii National Park: A Guide for the Haleakala Section, Island of Maui, Hawaii

George Cornelius Ruhle · myth

Hawaiian folk tales

Thomas G. Thrum · myth

Hawaiian Historical Legends

W. D. Westervelt · myth

Hawaiian idylls of love and death

Herbert H. Gowen · short story

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology)

W. D. Westervelt · myth

Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala

Maurice H. Harris · myth

Hecuba and other plays

Euripides · play

Philip José Farmer · short story

Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway

Snorri Sturluson · myth

Andrew Lang · poetry

Helen of Troy, and Other Poems

Sara Teasdale · poetry

Helen Redeemed and Other Poems

Maurice Hewlett · poetry

Heliodora, and Other Poems

H. D. · poetry

E. E. Fournier d'Albe · myth

Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia

Arthur Stringer · poetry

Herakles, the Hero of Thebes, and Other Heroes of the Myth

Mary E. Burt · myth

Hermann and Dorothea

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · poetry

Hero and Leander

Christopher Marlowe · poetry

James Baldwin · short story

Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine

Lewis Spence · myth

Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

Woislav M. Petrovitch · poetry

Hero Tales of the Far North

Jacob A. Riis · myth

Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

M. I. Ebbutt · myth

Hero-Tales of Ireland

Jeremiah Curtin · myth

Heroes Every Child Should Know

Hamilton Wright Mabie · myth

Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Complete

Arthur Herbert Leahy · myth

Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 1

Arthur Herbert Leahy · novel

Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Volume 2

Arthur Herbert Leahy · poetry

The story in one page

Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica

A farmer explains the weather, gods fight for their lives, and the missing chapters of the Trojan War finally appear.

Hesiod · poetry

Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts

Herbert Silberer · myth

Highland Legends

Thomas Dick Sir Lauder · myth

Highways and Byways in the Border

Andrew Lang · myth

Hills and the Sea

Hilaire Belloc · myth

Hindoo Tales; Or, the Adventures of Ten Princes

active 7th century Dandin · myth

Hindu gods and heroes

Lionel D. Barnett · myth

Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala

Epiphanius Wilson · poetry

Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit

N. D'Anvers · myth

Hippolytus; The Bacchae

Euripides · collection

Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern

Edgar Saltus · myth

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 07 (of 15), Spanish

Charles Morris · myth

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 09 (of 15), Scandinavian

Charles Morris · myth

Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 10 (of 15), Greek

Charles Morris · myth