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

Jack and the Bean-Stalk: English Hexameters

Hallam Tennyson Baron Tennyson · poetry

Jack the Giant Killer

Percival Leigh · poetry

Jamaica Anansi stories

Martha Warren Beckwith · myth

Jamaican song and story

Walter Jekyll · myth

Japan: From the Japanese Government History

Kan'ichi Asakawa · myth

The story in one page

Japanese Fairy Tales

Monkeys talk, rabbits manipulate crocodiles, and peach-born children fight ogres. It is exactly as strange as it sounds.

Yei Theodora Ozaki · collection

Japanese Fairy Tales

Grace James · myth

Japanese Fairy World

William Elliot Griffis · myth

Japanese folk stories and fairy tales

Mary F. -1930 Nixon-Roulet · myth

Ellen C. Babbitt · myth

Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur

Jean Bernard Lafon called Mary-Lafon · novel

Jerusalem Delivered

Torquato Tasso · poetry

Jewish children

Sholem Aleichem · short story

Jewish fairy stories

Gerald Friedlander · myth

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Gertrude Landa · myth

John Sherman; and, Dhoya

W. B. Yeats · novel

Johnny Nut and the Golden Goose

Charles Deulin · novel

Robert Nathan · novel

Joseph and His Brethren

W. K. Tweedie · myth

Joseph the Dreamer

Amy Steedman · myth

Joshua — Volume 2

Georg Ebers · novel

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2

Charles Herbert Sylvester · myth

Judith, a Play in Three Acts; Founded on the Apocryphal Book of Judith

Arnold Bennett · play

Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice

James Branch Cabell · novel

The story in one page

Just so stories

How the animals got their shapes, and why the cat still ignores your existence.

Rudyard Kipling · collection

W. Ben Hunt · myth

Kaffir folk-lore

George McCall Theal · myth

Kai Lung's Golden Hours

Ernest Bramah · novel

The story in one page

Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete

An old minstrel, a magical artifact, and the longest wedding-feast in literary history.

Elias Lönnrot · poetry

Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Volume 01

Elias Lönnrot · poetry

Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Volume 02

Elias Lönnrot · poetry

Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume One

Elias Lönnrot · poetry

Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two

Elias Lönnrot · poetry

Kalevan uhri: Näytelmä 4:ssä näytöksessä

Eero Eerola · play

Kathleen in Ireland

Etta Blaisdell McDonald · myth

Keeping Tryst: A Tale of King Arthur's Time

Annie F. Johnston · novel

Kenneth McAlpine: A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea

Gordon Stables · novel

Mary Gorges · myth

King Arthur and His Knights

Maude Radford Warren · myth

The story in one page

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

A boy pulls a sword from a stone, founds an elite fellowship, and watches it crumble through betrayal and magic.

Thomas Sir -1471 Malory · myth

King Arthur in Cornwall

W. Howship Dickinson · myth

King Arthur in history and legend

William Lewis Jones · myth

King Arthur's Knights

Henry Gilbert · myth

King Diderik and the fight between the Lion and Dragon, and Other Ballads

George Borrow · poetry

King Hacon's Death, and Bran and the Black Dog: Two Ballads

George Borrow · poetry

King Horn, Floriz and Blauncheflur, The Assumption of Our Lady

J. Rawson Lumby · poetry

Kitty-cat tales

Alice van Leer Carrick · short story

Knightly Legends of Wales; or, The Boy's Mabinogion

Sidney Lanier · myth