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

Queen Summer; Or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose

Walter Crane · poetry

Quotes and Images From The Tales and Novels of Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine · myth

Real Ghost Stories

W. T. Stead · myth

Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North

S. R. Crockett · myth

Red Hunters and the Animal People

Charles A. Eastman · novel

Red Riding Hood

Lydia L. A. Very · myth

James Stephens · poetry

Religion and Art in Ancient Greece

Ernest Arthur Gardner · myth

Religion in the Heavens; Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures

Logan Mitchell · myth

Religions of Primitive Peoples

Daniel G. Brinton · myth

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2 (of 3)

Thomas Percy · poetry

Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 3 (of 3)

Thomas Percy · poetry

Remedia Amoris; or, The Remedy of Love

Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts

Paul Schellhas · myth

Revolutionary Reader: Reminiscences and Indian Legends

Sophie Lee Foster · myth

Rewards and Fairies

Rudyard Kipling · short story

Reynard the fox in South Africa

W. H. I. Bleek · myth

Rhymes Old and New : collected by M.E.S. Wright

M. E. S. Wright · poetry

Richard Coeur de Lion and Blondel

Charlotte Brontë · poetry

Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book

L. Leslie Brooke · myth

The story in one page

A man walks into the mountains to avoid his chores and sleeps through a regime change.

Washington Irving · short story

River Legends; Or, Father Thames and Father Rhine

Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen Baron Brabourne · myth

The story in one page

An outlaw haunts Sherwood Forest, where he trades blows with tinkers and bishops while outmaneuvering the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Joseph Ritson · myth

Paul Creswick · myth

J. Walker McSpadden · myth

Robin Hood and His Merry Foresters

Joseph Cundall · novel

Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables

Roger Trewinion

Joseph Hocking · novel

Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology

Charles K. Dillaway · myth

Roman Legends: A collection of the fables and folk-lore of Rome

Rachel Harriette Busk · myth

Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)

Elizabeth W. Champney · myth

Romances of Old Japan

Yei Theodora Ozaki · short story

Romances of the old town of Edinburgh

Alexander Leighton · short story

Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces

George Borrow · poetry

Romantic legends of Spain

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer · short story

Jacob Abbott · myth

Roumanian Fairy Tales

Mite Kremnitz · myth

Round the year with the stars

Garrett Putman Serviss · myth

Rudy and Babette; Or, The Capture of the Eagle's Nest

H. C. Andersen · myth

Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories Rendered into English

Moses Gaster · collection

Rumpty-Dudget's Tower: A Fairy Tale

Julian Hawthorne · novel

Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevoi

P. Polevoi · myth

Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore

William Ralston Shedden Ralston · myth

Russian Folk-Tales

A. N. Afanas'ev · myth

Rustic Speech and Folk-Lore

Elizabeth Mary Wright · myth

Sacred and legendary art, volume 1 (of 2)

Mrs. Jameson · myth

Saga of Halfred the Sigskald: A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century

Felix Dahn · myth