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

California: The Land of the Sun

Mary Austin · myth

Beckles Willson · myth

Canadian Fairy Tales

Cyrus MacMillan · myth

Carleton's Condensed Classical Dictionary

George Washington Carleton · reference

Castles of Ireland: Some Fortress Histories and Legends

Constance Louisa Adams · myth

Caucasian Legends

Abraam Abraamovich Gul'bat · myth

Celtic Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs · myth

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

Joseph Jacobs · myth

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 1 of 2)

John Sir Rhys · myth

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2)

John Sir Rhys · myth

Celtic religion in pre-Christian times

E. Anwyl · myth

Celtic Tales, Told to the Children

Louey Chisholm · myth

Cerberus, the dog of Hades: The history of an idea

Maurice Bloomfield · myth

Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians

James Stevenson · myth

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 147, vol. III, October 23, 1886

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 42, Vol. I, October 18, 1884

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 704

Robert Chambers · periodical

Child Maidelvold, and Other Ballads

George Borrow · poetry

Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories

Matilda Chaplin Ayrton · myth

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

Hamilton Wright Mabie · poetry

Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece

E. F. Buckley · myth

Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade

Augusta Stevenson · play

Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two

Augusta Stevenson · play

Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories

Watty pseud. Piper · myth

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories

Robert Ford · myth

Chinese fables and folk stories

Mary Hayes Davis · myth

Chinese Folk-Lore Tales

J. -1922 Macgowan · myth

Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

Isaac Taylor Headland · poetry

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 1

F. Max Müller · myth

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 3

F. Max Müller · myth

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4

F. Max Müller · myth

Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 5

F. Max Müller · myth

Chitimacha Notebook: Writings of Emile Stouff—A Chitimacha Chief

Emile -1978 Stouff · collection

Chitra, a Play in One Act

Rabindranath Tagore · play

Christ in Flanders

Honoré de Balzac · novel

Selma Lagerlöf · short story

Christmas in Legend and Story: A Book for Boys and Girls

Elva Sophronia Smith · myth

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

Clement A. Miles · myth

Christmas Outside of Eden

Coningsby Dawson · novel

Christmas Stories And Legends

Phebe A. Curtiss · myth

Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse

Eugene Field · poetry

Christmas tales of Flanders

André de Ridder · myth

Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed

Jean Froissart · history

Chushingura; Or, The Treasury of Loyal Retainers

Izumo Takeda · collection

The story in one page

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations

A statesman and his friend debate whether virtue can actually outrun a really bad week.

Marcus Tullius Cicero · ideas

Henry W. Hewet · myth

Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales

Arthur Shearly Cripps · myth