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Russian Fairy Tales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library) 13 reviews
Aleksandr Afanasev
Pantheon, 1976
Very different from what I grew up on.
+ Superb for general reading or for serious folk tale study
+ A real treasure!
+ Gives me a deeper fascination with Russian culture
+ Russian Fairy Tales
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Legends and Prophecies of the Quero Apache: Tales for Healing and Renewal 11 reviews
Maria Yraceburu
Bear & Company, 2002
Maria's words are like arrows
+ Life-Changing
An elder of our people, the Apache, once said that Maria's words were like "arrows that were shot into our hearts to awaken our souls." Truely the memory and spirit of the Sierra Madre (Quero) Apache lives on in this book!
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Gypsy Folktales 4 reviews
Diane Tong
Harvest Books, 1989
Good collection of tales and stories.
+ Great Tales, But Reinforcing Roma Stereotypes
+ amusing tales collected from gypsies
In reading "Gypsy Folktales" by Diane Tong, it is important to keep in mind this is a collection of stories and histories as told to Ms. Tong by individuals. Some may have more historic or folkloric significance than others. That said, many of the stories may seem familiar--many they illustrate ...
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Egyptian Mythology (Dover Books on Egypt)2 reviews
F. Max Muller
Dover Publications, 2004
An amazing mythology collection
I suppose that some of the work in this book, one of a 13 volume set written between 1916 and 1932 (reprinted in the 1960s), has been changed by more recent scholarship, but there is still nothing to equal this fantastic achievement. The set includes not only the more familiar myths such as Greek ...
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Cajun Folktales (American Storytelling) 2 reviews
J.J. Reneaux
August House, 1993
Cajun Folk Tales
This book is full of tales to please even the hard-nosed, gonna find something wrong with it Cajun's like myself! Nothing annoys me quicker than to buy a 'Cajun' book and find it obviously written by someone who isn't. Ms. Reneaux always does a great job of depicting the truth as we see it, and ...
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Tales of the Taoist Immortals5 reviews
Eva Wong
Shambhala, 2001
Role models of spiritual attainment
+ Interesting stories, but no context
+ Beautiful, Entertaining and Instructive
+ Delightful, personable, educational, and entertaining
+ Origins of the Taoist Immortals
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Stories from the Haunted South2 reviews
Alan Brown
University Press of Mississippi, 2004
The Spooky Old South.
Alan Brown has traveled far and wide to do interviews and research so that he could put together a very interesting collection of Southern ghost stories. I know this because he was kind enough to include a bibliography that not only includes his personal interviews but also his secondary sources. I ...
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Tales of H.P. Lovecraft12 reviews
Joyce Carol Oates, Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2000
Best way to get into Lovecraft
+ Gothic Mythology
+ A Very Fine Collection
If you're just getting into Lovecraft, this is, without a doubt, the best way to get started with your favorite old god, Cthulhu. It contains a perfect list of Lovecraft standards: The Outsider; The Music of Erich Zann; The Rats in the Walls; The Shunned House; The Call of Cthulhu; The Colour out ...
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A Cycle Of Myths: Native Legends From Southeast Alaska
Salmon Run Press, 1993
Folklore. Mythology. With an introduction by the editor and a map of Alaska Native Peoples. This "collection of twenty myths is an excellent introduction into the world of southeast Alaska Native cultures." (--Dr. Alexandr Vaschenko) John Smelcer has dedicated his professional life to recording the traditionally oral tales of Alaskan Native peoples; his latest book contains narrative myths ...
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Native American Legends of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley 1 review
Katharine Berry Judson
Northern Illinois University Press, 2000
Provides the reader with insights
Native American Legends Of The Great Lakes And The Mississippi Valley is an outstanding collection of legends, tales and myths drawn from the Native American peoples of the Great Lakes area, the Midwest, and the Mississippi River valley. This rich and diverse collection reveals the central beliefs ...
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The Wind Gourd of La'Amaomao
Moses Kuaea Nakuina
Kalamaku Press, 1995
The classic Hawaiian story about a mistreated attendant regaining his position at court with the help of his precocious son and a magical wind gourd.
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Folk-Tales of the British Isles1 review
Kevin Crossley-Holland
Pantheon, 1988
Fantastic Interpretation of British Myths.
This Book does a splendid job of both providing the myths in an interesting fashion as well as summing up a suficient amount of information on every story. The book as well provides stories from a diverse variety of the Isles from Wales to The Isle Of Man. The stories in this book pertain from a ...
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Yiddish Folktales (Library of Yiddish Classics)2 reviews
Beatrice Weinreich
Schocken, 1997
Would make excellent bedtime stories for children
+ Seemingly simple folktales with a deeper meaning
This is a great read. Many tales have similarities to standard fairytales, but they have a wonderful richness not found in the usual blanded-down stories. The book has 178 stories, some as short as a half-page, so it's also great if you only have short snippets of time. My husband and I ...
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King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales4 reviews
Thomas Malory
Oxford University Press, USA, 1975
A Pleasant Must Read For Any Quester's Soul
+ A Good Introduction to Malory
This nice collection of tales of King Arthur and his knights of the table round is a wonderful reading for anyone concerned with the history of western civilization and the thought that helped shape it. The book begins with Merlin, and really King Uther Pendragon and the wife of the Duke of ...
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The Arabian Nights (Everyman's Library)32 reviews
Husain Haddawy, Muhsin Mahdi
Everyman's Library, 1992
Excellent Translation
+ Justified New Translation
+ Beautiful and affordable!
+ So far very good, not for kids though
+ Arabian Nights
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Choctaw Tales2 reviews
University Press of Mississippi, 2004
Basic Folklore Collection
+ Great compilation of stories
Choctaw Tales by Tom Mould, Phillip (University Press of Mississippi) Including stories from the 1700s to today, Choctaw Tales showcases the myths, legends, supernatural tales, prophecies, histories, animal tales and jokes that make up the rich and lively Choctaw storytelling tradition. The stories ...
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The Victorian Fairytale Book (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
Michael Patrick Hearn
Pantheon, 1990
Here is a truly magical book. It brings together the best and best-loved stories from the Golden Age of the fairy tale, and reunites them with delightful illustrations from their original editions. Stories and poems by Dickens, Thackeray, J. M. Barrie, Kenneth Grahame, Oscar Wilde, Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats, and many others are paired with pictures by some of the most celebrated ...
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Hawaiian Mythology2 reviews
Martha Warren Beckwith
University of Hawaii Press, 1977
Hawaiian Mythology
+ Informative and Insightful
This is a very thorough and interesting book about the ancient Hawaiian myths. Martha Beckwith's book Hawaiian Mythology leaves no stone unturned when it comes to an extremely comprehensive look at the myths that have been passed down by the Hawaiians for hundreds of years. It tells adventurous ...
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Classical Mythology8 reviews
Mark Morford, Robert Lenardon
Longman Publishing Group, 1994
thru a distant lens
+ The best Book on the Subject in my Opinion
+ Excellent source
+ Excellent overview of everything with Classical Mythology
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American Indian Myths and Legends (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)14 reviews
Richard Erdoes, Alfonso Ortiz
Pantheon, 1985
Fantastic Collection of Stories from the First Nations
+ wow
+ authentic but inconsistent
+ Good storyteller
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