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.
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2,535 myth & legend
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Old Peter's Russian Tales
Arthur Ransome · myth
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Old Testament legends
M. R. James · myth
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Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales
Juliana Horatia Ewing · myth
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Old-Time Stories
Charles Perrault · myth
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Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods
Frank Rinder · myth
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Oldtown Fireside Stories
Harriet Beecher Stowe · short story
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Olympian Nights
John Kendrick Bangs · novel
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Omens and Superstitions of Southern India
Edgar Thurston · myth
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On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire
Charles Hardwick · myth
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On the track of Ulysses; Together with an excursion in quest of the so-called Venus of Melos
William James Stillman · travel
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On the Tree Top
Clara Doty Bates · poetry
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Once upon a time animal stories
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey · novel
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One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances
Théophile Gautier · short story
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Opera Stories from Wagner
Florence Akin · collection
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Ophiolatreia
Edward Sellon · myth
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Oral tradition from the Indus
John Frederick Adolphus McNair · myth
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Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth
myth
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Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines
H. Otley Beyer · myth
The story in one page
Orlando Furioso
A paladin goes mad, a hippogriff visits the moon, and two lovers fight fate to start an Italian dynasty.
Lodovico Ariosto · myth
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Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 1 of 2
Luís de Camões · myth
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Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 2 of 2
Luís de Camões · myth
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Osage Traditions
James Owen Dorsey · myth
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Outa Karel's Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales
Sanni Metelerkamp · myth
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Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths
Frank Hamilton Cushing · myth
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Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning
Edward Carpenter · myth
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Pagan Passions
Randall Garrett · novel
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Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania
Adam Mickiewicz · novel
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Pan-Worship, and Other Poems
Eleanor Farjeon · poetry
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Paradise Regained
John Milton · poetry
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Parsifal
Oliver Huckel · collection
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Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 1 of 2)
von Eschenbach Wolfram · poetry
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Parzival: A Knightly Epic (vol. 2 of 2)
von Eschenbach Wolfram · poetry
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Passamaquoddy Texts
John Dyneley Prince · myth
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Patrañas; or, Spanish Stories, Legendary and Traditional
Rachel Harriette Busk · short story
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Paul Bunyan
James Stevens · myth
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Paul Bunyan and His Loggers
Otis T. Howd · myth
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.
active approximately Pausanias · myth
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Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume II.
active approximately Pausanias · myth
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Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales
George Bird Grinnell · myth
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Peeps at many lands: Wales
E. M. Wilmot-Buxton · myth
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Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii
Nathaniel Bright Emerson · myth
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Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems
John Greenleaf Whittier · poetry
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Perez the Mouse
Luis Coloma · novel
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Perseus
H. F. Scott Stokes · myth
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Phaedra
Jean Racine · play
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Phallic Miscellanies
Hargrave Jennings · myth
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Pharais; and, The Mountain Lovers
William Sharp · novel
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Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars
Lucan · poetry