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Favorite Folktales From Around the World by Jane Yolen Publisher Comments A one volume collection of 160 tales from over 40 cultures and traditions, containing both classics and lesser known tales.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Norwegian Folk Tales: From the Collection of Peter Christen Asbj Rnsen, J Rgen Moe (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) by Peter Ch Asbjornsen Publisher Comments Collected here in a contemporary translation. With these tales we meet witches, trolls and ogres, sly foxes and mysterious bears, beautiful princesses and country lads turned heroes. Includes illustrations.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Wisdom Tales From Around the World by Heather Forest Publisher Comments Containing simple truths, common sense, and the promise that people can benefit from past generations' experience, this book is a collection of 50 metaphorical folk tales and parables selected with a global perspective and retold by a professional... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Best Loved Folktales of the World (82 Edition) by Joanna (ed.) Cole Publisher Comments A collection of over 200 folk and fairy tales from all over the world, this is the only edition that encompasses all cultures. Arranged geographically by region, this book also includes category index groups that list the stories by plot and character.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Favorite African Folktales by Nelson Mandela Publisher Comments The vibrant tradition of African folktales is long and varied, but to date it has been largely overlooked in the West. Aware of this gap, Nelson Mandela has selected 32 stories, many of them translated from their original tongues, to show the seminal... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ancient Egyptian Myths and Legends by Lewis Spence Publisher Comments This superb in-depth survey explores animism, totemism, fetishism, creation myths, Egyptian priesthood, cult of Osiris, numerous deities, Book of the Dead, alchemy, Egyptian art and magic, legends, and a host of other fascinating topics. An erudite... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Latin American Folktales: Stories from Hispanic and Indian Traditions by John Bierhorst Publisher Comments The wisdom and artistry of Latin America's storytellers preserve one of the world's richest folktale traditions--combining the lore of medieval Europe, the ancient Near East, and pre-Columbian America. Among the essential characters are the quiet man's... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Hawaiis Best Spooky Tales #00: Hawai'i's Best Spooky Tales: True Local Spine-Tinglers by Rick Carroll Publisher Comments Overflowing with true supernatural encounters, these tales, told from a first-person perspective, are guaranteed to cause chicken-skin!... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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World Mythology (Henry Holt Reference Book) by Roy Willis Publisher Comments A New York Public Library Outstanding Reference Book Filled with more than 500 color photographs, charts, maps, and line drawings, this is an incomparable guide to the world's most important mythological traditions. Roy Willis, Ph.D., is a research... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Don't Know Much about World Myths (Don't Know Much About...) by Kenneth C Davis Publisher Comments Why did the Mesopotamian hero Gilgamesh search for eternal youth? (see page 21)What is the Chinese recipe for creating the universe? (see page 67)How did the Blackfoot maiden Feather Woman turn the world upside down? (see page 122) Whether it's the... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Prose Edda by Sturluson Publisher Comments One of the great storybooks of the middle ages: a master storyteller from the thirteenth century recounts classic tales of Icelandic mythology along with a lesson to young poets on the importance of learning, respecting, and continuing traditional... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Tales of the Menehune by Mary Kawena Pukui Synopsis Legends about the little people of Hawaiian folklore, the demigod Maui, and other Hawaiian tales.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan Publisher Comments Inspired by the residual fear and need for stories of resilience following 9/11, the editor scoured the globe and collected 64 tales that respond to fear in its wide variety of incarnations, arranging them thematically around topics such as the nature of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Who's Who in Egyptian Mythology by Anthony Mercatante Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-230).... (read more) List Price $7.98 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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One Hundred Favorite Folktales by Stith Thompson Synopsis Amongst the one hundred folktales are such familiar tales as The Three Billy-Goats Gruff, Haensel and Gretel, Sleeping Beuaty, and some perhaps not so familiar, The Magic Bird, The Goose Girl, and The Pancake. If you can buy only one fairytale book a... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Handbook of Hindu Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology) by George Williams Publisher Comments Unlike many other ancient mythologies, Hinduism thrives in the modern world. One billion followers and countless others have been captivated by its symbolic representations of love, karma, and reincarnation. Handbook of Hindu Mythology offers an... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Whatever Gets You Through the Night: A Story of Sheherezade and the Arabian Entertainments by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments "Like a supercomputer concealed inside an exotic, aphrodisiac fruit, Codrescu's retelling of this ancient bawdy wonderwork ends up by surprisingly calculating the future of our race."--Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues "This... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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Folklore, Myths, and Legends by Donna Rosenberg About the Author McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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African Folktales by Paul Radin Publisher Comments A selection of eighty-one folktales from the many cultures that exist south of the Sahara, African Folktales includes tales of the Hausa and the Ashanti, the Bantu, the Bushmen, and the Zulu. The narratives, which range from the mythical tale to the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Richard F. Burton and A. S. Byatt Publisher Comments Full of mischief, valor, ribaldry, and romance, The Arabian Nights has enthralled readers for centuries. These are the tales that saved the life of Shahrazad, whose husband, the king, executed each of his wives after a single night of marriage. Beginning... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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