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

Aino Folk-Tales

Basil Hall Chamberlain · collection

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

Aladdin or The Wonderful Lamp

Alaeddin and the Enchanted Lamp

John Payne · myth

Alf the Freebooter, Little Danneved and Swayne Trost, and Other Ballads

George Borrow · poetry

Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, First Series. Indian Tales and Legends, Vol. 1 of 2

Henry Rowe Schoolcraft · myth

Algonquin Indian Tales

Egerton Ryerson Young · novel

Algonquin Legends of New England

Charles Godfrey Leland · myth

Ali Baba, or the Forty Thieves

The story in one page

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

A bored girl follows a rabbit into a world where eating cake changes your height and logic is optional.

Lewis Carroll · novel

All About the Three Little Pigs

Dick Hartley · novel

All the Way to Fairyland: Fairy Stories

Evelyn Sharp · short story

Allegheny Episodes

Henry W. Shoemaker · myth

American Fairy Tales

L. Frank Baum · short story

American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent

Daniel G. Brinton · myth

American Indian Fairy Tales

W. T. Larned · myth

American Indian life

Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons · myth

American Indian Stories

Zitkala-Sa · myth

Among the Great Masters of Music

Walter Rowlands · myth

Among unknown Eskimo

Julian W. Bilby · myth

Molière · play

Amusing prose chap-books

Robert Hays Cunningham · myth

An Enchanted Garden: Fairy Stories

Mrs. Molesworth · collection

An Entertaining History of Tom Thumb

An essay towards a natural history of serpents

Charles -1746 Owen · myth

An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition

F. W. Bain · novel

An Introduction to Mythology

Lewis Spence · myth

An Irish precursor of Dante

Charles Stuart Boswell · myth

The story in one page

An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic

Two ancient tablets surface, and a pair of academics spend decades arguing about the translation.

Morris Jastrow · myth

Ancient Art and Ritual

Jane Ellen Harrison · myth

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

Toru Dutt · poetry

Ancient calendars and constellations

Emmeline M. Plunket · myth

Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado

Alexander McAllan · myth

Ancient Egyptian legends

Margaret Alice Murray · myth

Ancient legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland

Lady Wilde · myth

Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

Robert Bell · poetry

The story in one page

Andersen's Fairy Tales

A Flea competes for a princess’s hand, a tree regrets growing up, and two rogues weave a suit of nothing.

H. C. Andersen · collection

Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew

Robert K. Root · poetry

Andromache: A Play in Three Acts

Gilbert Murray · play

Andromeda, and Other Poems

Charles Kingsley · poetry

Animal Figures in the Maya Codices

Alfred M. Tozzer · myth

Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

Elliott O'Donnell · myth

Animal Stories from Eskimo Land

Renée Coudert Riggs · myth

Antar: A Bedoueen Romance

Terrick Hamilton · myth

Anthologica Rarissima: The Way of a Virgin

L. C. Brovan · collection

Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry

E. F. M. Benecke · myth

Anting-Anting Stories, and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

Sargent Kayme · short story

Apollo and Marsyas, and Other Poems

Eugene Lee-Hamilton · poetry