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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The Arabian Nights' Entertainments
myth
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The Aran Islands
J. M. Synge · myth
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The Arctic Queen
poetry
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The Argonautica
A king fears a one-sandaled man, so he sends fifty heroes on a boat toward a very dangerous sheepskin.
Rhodius Apollonius · poetry
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The Asbestos Society of Sinners
Lawrence Daniel Fogg · novel
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The Ashes of a God
F. W. Bain · novel
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The Assemble of Goddes
poetry
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The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'
A Victorian doctor examines how John Milton built a universe using both ancient myths and the latest telescope discoveries.
Thomas Nathaniel Orchard · history
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The Authoress of the Odyssey
An amateur sleuth scans the Odyssey for clues that Homer was actually a woman.
Samuel Butler · ideas
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The Awakening of the Soul
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl · myth
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The Babe in the Bulrushes
Amy Steedman · myth
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The Babes in the Wood
poetry
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The Babes in the Wood
Randolph Caldecott · myth
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The Baby's Own Aesop
Walter Crane · myth
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The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
E. A. Wallis Sir Budge · myth
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The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh
E. A. Wallis Sir Budge · myth
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The Baitâl Pachchisi; Or, The Twenty-Five Tales of a Sprite
John T. Platts · myth
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The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance
William Ouseley · poetry
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The Ballad of the White Horse
A defeated king gathers a ragtag army to defend a white horse on a hill against a Danish apocalypse.
G. K. Chesterton · myth
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The Ballads & Songs of Derbyshire
Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt · poetry
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The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire
Christopher James Davison Ingledew · poetry
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The Banshee
Elliott O'Donnell · myth
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The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales for Children
Mary Austin · novel
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The Beacon Second Reader
James H. Fassett · myth
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The Beast-Jewel of Mars
V. E. Thiessen · short story
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The beloved of Hathor, and The shrine of the Golden Hawk
Florence Farr · play
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The Bible for Young People
Gwendolen Jackson Gilder · myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 08: Ruth
religious
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 17: Tobias
myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 18: Judith
myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 19: Esther
myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 32: Daniel
myth
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The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 37: Jonas
myth
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The Bible, King James version, Book 17: Esther
religious
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The Bible, King James version, Book 2: Exodus
myth
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The Bible, King James version, Book 27: Daniel
myth
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The Bible, King James version, Book 32: Jonah
myth
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The Bible, King James version, Book 66: Revelation
myth
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The Bible, King James Version, Complete
A desert migration leads to monarchy, catastrophe, and letters sent to small, tense assemblies across the Mediterranean.
collection
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The Birds
Two men leave Athens to start a city in the clouds. Birds take over.
Aristophanes · play
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The Birth of the War-God: A Poem by Kálidása
Kālidāsa · poetry
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The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism
A young philosopher argues the Greeks were only beautiful because they were profoundly miserable.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche · history
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The black border
Ambrose Elliott Gonzalez · myth
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The black ship: with other allegories and parables
Elizabeth Rundle Charles · myth
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The Blood of Rachel, a Dramatization of Esther, and Other Poems
Cotton Noe · play
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The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
Maurice Maeterlinck · play
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The Blue Fairy Book
Thirty-seven stories of bronze rings, glass slippers, and magical dwarves gathered to rescue folklore from the nursery and the archive.
Andrew Lang · collection
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The Blue Moon
Laurence Housman · novel