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 Stories of El Dorado
Frona Eunice Wait · myth
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The Story and Song of Black Roderick
Dora Sigerson Shorter · novel
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The Story Girl
L. M. Montgomery · novel
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The Story Hour, Vol. I, No. 1, November, 1908
William Carl Ruediger · periodical
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The Story Hour, Vol. I, No. 2, December, 1908
William Carl Ruediger · periodical
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The Story of a Dewdrop
John R. Macduff · novel
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The Story of a Robin
Agnes S. Underwood · novel
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The story of Aaron (so named) the son of Ben Ali
Joel Chandler Harris · novel
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The Story of Alexander
Robert Steele · novel
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The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
W. Scott-Elliot · myth
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The Story of Bawn
Katharine Tynan · novel
The story in one page
The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose
The Danish king has a pest problem in his living room, and a Geat offers to handle it.
Ernest J. B. Kirtlan · novel
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The Story of Blue-Beard
Charles Perrault · novel
The story in one page
The story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga
An Icelandic lawyer tries to stop a blood feud with logic, but his neighbors prefer arson and axes.
George Webbe Sir Dasent · myth
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The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor
George Webbe Sir Dasent · myth
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The story of Eros & Psyche (retold from Apuleius)
Edward Carpenter · myth
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The Story of Frithiof the Bold
Eiríkr Magnússon · myth
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The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and Girls
Mary Macgregor · myth
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The Story of Grettir the Strong
Eiríkr Magnússon · myth
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The Story of Gunnlaug the Worm-Tongue and Raven the Skald
Eiríkr Magnússon · myth
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The Story of Hiawatha, Adapted from Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · myth
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The Story of Jack and the Giants
Richard Doyle · novel
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The Story of King Arthur and his Knights
Howard Pyle · myth
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The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus
Gilbert Murray · poetry
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The Story of Noah's Ark
E. Boyd Smith · novel
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The Story of Peter Pan, Retold from the fairy play by Sir James Barrie
Daniel O'Connor · novel
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The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus, Told to Boys and Girls
Mary Macgregor · myth
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The Story of Rustem, and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi
Elizabeth D. Renninger · novel
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The story of Santa Klaus
William S. Walsh · myth
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The Story of Siegfried
James Baldwin · novel
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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung
William Morris · poetry
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The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
William Morris · poetry
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The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions
Howard Pyle · myth
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The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
Howard Pyle · myth
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The Story of the Duchess of Cicogne and of Monsieur de Boulingrin
Anatole France · novel
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The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur
Howard Pyle · myth
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The Story of the Greeks
H. A. Guerber · myth
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The story of the Iliad
Alfred John Church · myth
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The Story of the Odyssey
Alfred John Church · myth
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The Story of the Other Wise Man
Henry Van Dyke · novel
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The Story of the Prophet Jonas
William Tyndale · religious
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The story of the Rhinegold (Der Ring des Nibelungen) told for young people
Anna Alice Chapin · collection
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The Story of the Siren
E. M. Forster · short story
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The Story of the Three Little Pigs
L. Leslie Brooke · myth
The story in one page
The Story of the Volsungs (Volsunga Saga); with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda
A family tree grows around a divine sword, but its branches eventually buckle under the weight of cursed dragon treasure.
Eiríkr Magnússon · myth
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The Story of the White Mouse
novel
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The Story of Tim
George Borrow · myth
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The Story of Troy
Michael Clarke · myth