Cuentos, mitologías y leyendas

One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling

de Hanan Al-Shaykh & Mary Gaitskill

Gathered and passed down over the centuries from India, Persia, and across the Arab world, the mesmerizing stories of One Thousand and One Nights tell of the real and the supernatural, love and marriage, power...

Ghosts of the Carolinas

de Nancy Roberts & Bruce Roberts

More spooky tales and folklore from a master storyteller

Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends

de Nancy Roberts & Bruce Roberts

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's...

The Lion and the Aardvark: Aesop's Modern Fables

de Jim Demonakos & Robin D. Laws

Seventy writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to the classic format of Aesop's 2,500-year-old fables. Zombies, dog-men, and robot wasps mingle with cats, coyotes, and cockroaches....

Reawakened: A Once Upon a Time Tale

de Odette Beane

Emma Swan’s life has been anything but a fairy tale. She's been on her own since she was abandoned as a baby--that is, until the night of her twenty-eighth birthday, when Henry, a ten-year-old boy, shows up...

At the Fireside: True South African Stories

de Webster Roger

Roger Webster published his first volume of At the Fireside stories in 2001. It became an overnight bestseller and he went on to write three more books filled with magnificent stories from southern African.

Now,...

More Wild Camp Tales

de Mike Blakely

A lighthearted look at some of the stories Texans have been improving on since their first telling around the glow of a campfire.

Resonance

de J.A. Belfield

Guilt is a heavy burden for the one carrying it. Jem Stonehouse is no exception to this rule. What if she'd acted sooner? What if she'd fully recognised the threat? What if she hadn't allowed the male pack members...

The Brothers Grimm Volume 2: 110 Grimmer Fairy Tales

de Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm & Margaret Hunt

We all know the stories — or do we? We know who Snow White is, but what about Rose Red? And what happens to an all-too willful child? Learn more intriguing stories about "Wise Folks," "The King's Son Who Feared...

Folk Tales of Scotland: The Well at the World's End and Other Stories

de William Montgomerie & Norah Montgomerie

The classic folk tales of Scotland were passed down from storyteller to storyteller, and from the first sentence they held the attention of the listeners and readers as though a spell had been cast over them,...

Psyche

de Louis Couperus, Lucius Apuleius & B.S. Berrington

In the original myth of Cupid and Psyche, the goddess Venus becomes jealous of Psyche’s celebrated beauty and instructs her son, Cupid, to make her fall in love with a monstrous creature. However, when Cupid...

Jack the Giant Killer (Illustrated)

de Joseph Jacobs & Hugh Thomson

Jack the Giant Killer is the famous English fairy tale about a brave lad slaying hideous giants. Color illustrations by Hugh Thomson.

The Tale of Genji

de Shikibu Murasaki, Edward G. Seidensticker & Edward G. Seidensticker

In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu, a lady in the Heian court of Japan, wrote the world's first novel. But The Tale of Genji is no mere artifact. It is, rather, a lively and astonishingly nuanced portrait...

Snow White

de Donald Barthelme

An inventive, satiric modern retelling of the classic fairy tale provides an incisive and biting commentary on the absurdities and complexities of modern life.

In Snow White, Donald Barthelme subjects the traditional...

The Legend of King Arthur and His Knights

de Sir James Knowles

King Arthur is a legendary British leader who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defense of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early sixth century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly...

The Book of Were-Wolves

de Sabine Baring-Gould

The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould was originally published in 1865 and remains the most important and most often cited book on Lycanthropy. It is as compelling today as it was more than one hundred...

Russian Fairy Tales

de Aleksandr Afanas'Ev

Translated by Norbert Guterman

Illustrated with black-and-white line drawings by Alexander Alexeieff

Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

In this most comprehensive collection of classic Russian...

Silicon Tales

de Ella Price

This book is the 'always there' book for your bedside table. It's ideal to dip into as a late night distraction from your day's stresses, or to break the monotony of a morning commute. And it's likely to spark...

AZLANDER -

de Gabriel Brunsdon

Puck falls in love with a mortal girl as she lay dying. He follows her soul into the Heavens and beyond. The tale winds its way back to a dark past in the forests of Nottingham, and yet further back to the time...

Tales

de Hans Christian Andersen

Illustrazioni di Ilaria Mattia. La giovane mano di Ilaria Mattia rappresenta alcune delle più famose fiabe di Andersen mostrando con immagini fresche e variopinte le magiche finzioni di storie ancora oggi tra...