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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Apu Ollantay: A Drama of the Time of the Incas
Clements R. Sir Markham · play
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Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic
John Wortabet · myth
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Archaic England
Harold Bayley · myth
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Armenian legends and festivals
Louis A. Boettiger · myth
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Armenian Legends and Poems
Zabelle C. Boyajian · poetry
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Armenian Literature: Comprising Poetry, Drama, Folk-lore and Classic Traditions;
Robert Arnot · play
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Arnold of Winkelried, the Hero of Sempach
Gustav Höcker · myth
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Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses
Edith Wharton · poetry
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Arthur
Laurence Binyon · play
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Arthur Machen: Weaver of Fantasy
William F. Gekle · myth
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Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
Wace · myth
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Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology
Mary H. Foster · myth
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Aslauga's Knight
Friedrich Heinrich Karl Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué · novel
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Asneha, the legend of the opal
Carlo de Fornaro · novel
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Astral Worship
J. H. Hill · myth
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Astronomical Myths: Based on Flammarions's "History of the Heavens"
J. F. Blake · myth
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At the gateways of the day
Padraic Colum · myth
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Atalanta in Calydon
Algernon Charles Swinburne · play
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Atlantida
Pierre Benoît · novel
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Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World
Ignatius Donnelly · myth
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Aucassin & Nicolette, and Other Mediæval Romances and Legends
Eugene Mason · myth
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Aucassin and Nicolete
Andrew Lang · poetry
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Aucassin and Nicolette
Francis William Bourdillon · poetry
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Aunt Charlotte's Stories of Greek History
Charlotte M. Yonge · myth
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Aurora Leigh
Elizabeth Barrett Browning · poetry
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Aus meinem Königreich: Tales from the Carpathian Mountains
Carmen Sylva · myth
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Australian fairy tales
Atha Westbury · myth
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Australian Fairy Tales
James Hume-Cook · myth
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Australian Legendary Tales: folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies
K. Langloh Parker · myth
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Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights: Being the Myths and Legends of the Pimas of Arizona
J. Wm. Lloyd · myth
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Babylonian and Assyrian Literature
Epiphanius Wilson · poetry
The story in one page
Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients
A courtier decodes the secrets of power, the anatomy of anger, and the hidden political manuals buried inside ancient Greek myths.
Francis Bacon · collection
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Bagh O Bahar, or Tales of the Four Darweshes
Amir Khusraw Dihlavi · myth
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Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals
James S. De Benneville · myth
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Balder the Beautiful, Volume I.
James George Frazer · myth
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Ballad Book
Katharine Lee Bates · poetry
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Ballads
Robert Louis Stevenson · poetry
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Ballads from the Danish and Original Verses
E. M. Smith-Dampier · poetry
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Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth
Frank Sidgwick · poetry
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Ballads of Robin Hood and other Outlaws
Frank Sidgwick · poetry
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Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance
Frank Sidgwick · poetry
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Bantu Beliefs and Magic
C. W. Hobley · myth
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Bantu Folk Lore (Medical and General)
Matthew L. Hewat · myth
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Barlaam and Ioasaph
Saint John of Damascus · myth
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Baron Bruno; Or, The Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories
Louisa Morgan · myth
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Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language
Wentworth Webster · myth
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Basutoland: Its Legends and Customs
Minnie Martin · myth
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Battle of the Monkey & the Crab
Eitaku · myth