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2,535 myth & legend
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The San Francisco Fairy: A Tale of Early Times
novel
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The Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona Affairs
Petronius Arbiter · novel
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The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena Notes
Petronius Arbiter · novel
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The science of fairy tales
Edwin Sidney Hartland · myth
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The Scottish Fairy Book
Elizabeth W. Grierson · myth
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The Scouring of the White Horse; Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk
Thomas Hughes · myth
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The Sea-Kings of Crete
James Baikie · myth
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The secret commonwealth of elves, fauns & fairies
Robert Kirk · myth
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The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4
H. P. Blavatsky · myth
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The Secret of Kralitz
Henry Kuttner · short story
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The Secret of the Creation
Howard D. Pollyen · myth
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The Secret Rose
W. B. Yeats · short story
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The secrets of black arts!
myth
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The Serpent Knight, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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The Seven Champions of Christendom
William Henry Giles Kingston · novel
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The Seven Plaits of Nettles, and other stories
Edric Vredenburg · myth
The story in one page
The Seven Plays in English Verse
A king discovers his parentage, a sister breaks the law, and gods never stop watching.
Sophocles · collection
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The Seven Wives of Bluebeard
Anatole France · novel
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The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
Richard Runciman Terry · myth
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The Shoemaker's Apron: A Second Book of Czechoslovak Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Parker Fillmore · myth
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The Silly Jelly-Fish
Basil Hall Chamberlain · myth
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The Silver Crown: Another Book of Fables
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards · myth
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The Silver Fox
Martin Ross · novel
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The Singing Caravan: A Sufi Tale
Robert Gilbert Vansittart Baron Vansittart · myth
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The sirens
Laurence Binyon · poetry
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The Siwash, Their Life, Legends, and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacfic Northwest
J. A. Costello · myth
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The Sleeping Bard; Or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
Ellis Wynne · poetry
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The Sleeping Beauty
C. S. Evans · myth
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The sleeping beauty and other fairy tales from the old French
Arthur Quiller-Couch · myth
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The Sleeping Beauty Picture Book
Walter Crane · poetry
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The Snake's Pass
Bram Stoker · novel
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The Soldier and Death
Arthur Ransome · myth
The story in one page
The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata)
A prince refuses to fight, so his charioteer explains the nature of the universe instead.
Edwin Sir Arnold · myth
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The Song of Deirdra, King Byrge and his Brothers, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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The Song of Hiawatha
An Ojibway leader wrestles corn spirits, hunts giant beavers, and courts the daughter of his enemies in relentless trochaic tetrameter.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · poetry
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The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · poetry
The story in one page
The Song of Roland
A king spends seven years conquering Spain, but his rear guard loses everything in an afternoon.
C. K. Scott-Moncrieff · myth
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The Songs of Ranild
George Borrow · poetry
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The sons of Kai
Henry Beston · myth
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The soul of Lilith
Marie Corelli · novel
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The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation
Charles A. Eastman · myth
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The Spawn of Ixion; Or, The 'Biter Bit.' An Allegory
James Ewing Cooley · poetry
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The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines
Isabel Anderson · myth
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The Spell of the White Sturgeon
Jim Kjelgaard · novel
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The Spook Ballads
William Theodore -1908 Parkes · poetry
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The Stars in the Pool: A Prose Poem for Lovers
Edna Kingsley Wallace · poetry
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The Steel Flea
N. S. Leskov · novel
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The Stone Axe of Burkamukk
Mary Grant Bruce · myth