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  • An Andy Stevens Novel
    Andrew M. Stevens
    Andrew M Stevens picks up where he left off with his previous novel 3 ...
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    16,17 €

  • Tales of the Teahouse Retold
    Felix S. Chew / Katherine Liang Chew
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    27,16 €

  • Tales of the Teahouse Retold
    Katherine Liang Chew
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    38,41 €

  • Runaround
    Jonathan Hayes Edwards
    In this fictional account of the the fifties and sixties music business, young Roger Denton becomes inspired to be a rock and roll performer as a youth in a small town. He eventually has a hit record and faces many career challenges as well as difficult choices in his personal life. 3 ...
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    13,98 €

  • More Tellable Cracker Tales
    Annette J Bruce / Annette J. Bruce / Annette JBruce
    Drawn from Florida history, folklore, and fiction, this collection of stories tailor-made for telling will entertain, inspire, and astound readers and listeners of all ages.Cracker Jack is up to his old tricks: putting one over on his Yankee schoolteacher; confounding a census taker; and convincing a befuddled farmer that its not Saturday but Sunday (and if the preacher finds h...
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    8,73 €

  • Atom
    Stephen C. Sutcliffe
    What are the Beasts foretold in St. John’s Revelation? The Children of Atom avenge their post-Alamogordo legacy, and change, forever, everyone’s Fourth of July. 3 ...
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    11,06 €

  • The Fire Inside
    Tawanda Gumbo
    Picture a black Zimbabwean man living under a ferocious dictatorship. He falls in love with a white liberal American woman. Their ideologies and families collide amid AIDS, death and infidelity. The ensuing chaos is like a fire upon their souls. ...
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    15,39 €

  • El héroe del espigón
    Evelio Domínguez
    La décima es la estrofa por excelencia de la tradición poética popular cubana, si bien autores cultos como E. Florit, N. Guillén, M. Brull o Lezama Lima también la han cultivado. Sobre esta estrofa el autor se ha planteado de manera argumental y estructural el desarrollo de su novela. Conviven en el texto tanto los registros líricos como los narrativos y expositivos con la mism...
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    10,00 €

  • Shadows of Twilight
    Betty E. Croy
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    17,17 €

  • Once Upon Another Time--Another Place
    Nigel Davenport / Victoria Davenport
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    17,32 €

  • Yoruba Folktales
    Amos Tutuola
    The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Palmvine Drinkard. This book includes seven folktales especially for young adults, but of universal appeal. Beautiful black and white ink drawings illustrate the tales whose cast of characters include humans, a goddess, an elephant woman, a boa c...
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    31,54 €

  • A Touch of Myth
    Jean Forray
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    13,82 €

  • Voces africanas. Voix africaines
    Landry-Wilfrid Miampika
    Para el África de hoy y de mañana, la poesía podría servir de defensa en favor de un nuevo humanismo liberado de cualquier veleidad fundamentalista en esta búsqueda inacabada de la travesía, entendida como camino e impulso creador para una nueva fundación africana. Más allá de su vocación de resistencia o de su tentación de subversión esencialista, la poesía recobraría en esta ...
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    15,03 €

  • Destino Estambul
    Jaime Marchán
    Destino Estambul confirma la destreza narrativa demostrada por Jaime Marchán en La otra vestidura, su primera novela.El autor nos conduce ahora desde Quito, en la mitad del mundo, a Estambul, donde su protagonista se ve envuelto en las mallas de una trama intensa y cruel, en la que la revelación fulgurante del amor y de una confabulación de narcotraficantes se entrelazan eficaz...
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    17,95 €

  • Maya/Atlantis
    Augustus Le Plongeon
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    33,60 €

  • Theories of Myth
    Thomas J Sienkewicz / Thomas J. Sienkewicz / Thomas JSienkewicz
    Theories of Myth, a companion to the author’s World Mythology: An Annotated Guide to Collections and Anthologies (Scarecrow Press and Salem Press, 1996), has been written to serve the needs of college undergraduates, high school students, and general readers approaching the study of myth for the first time. Whereas the earlier volume describes the plethora of anthologies, colle...
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    108,38 €

  • Who’s Who in Egyptian Mythology, Second Edition
    Anthony S Mercatante / Anthony S. Mercatante / Anthony SMercatante / Robert Steven Bianchi
    Who is Osiris? Which god was invoked by common folk to bring good luck? Who is the patron of childbirth? Such questions are answered in this updated and comprehensive dictionary of Egyptian mythology. This fascinating volume has alphabetically arranged entries on all the major gods, goddesses, myths, and themes of Egyptian mythology. In addition, there are entries on such topic...
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    112,47 €

  • Index to Fairy Tales, 1987-1992, Sixth Supplement
    Joseph W. Sprug / Joseph WSprug
    This new publication, the seventh in the series, includes fairy tales, folk tales, fables, myths, and legends. The major change in this edition is that each entry (author, title, or subject) gives the exact source; no longer is the location found only under the title entry. The descriptive part of an entry (formerly limited to the title as printed) is often made more informativ...
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    228,22 €

  • Holy Grail
    Arthur Edward Waite
    ''The Holy Grail: The Galahad Quest in the Arthurian Literature'' by Arthur Edward Waite is a comprehensive exploration of the legend of the Holy Grail in Arthurian literature. The book delves into the origins of the myth, tracing its roots back to ancient Celtic and Christian traditions. Waite examines the various versions of the Grail story, including the medieval French roma...
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    55,64 €

  • New Atlantis
    Francis Bacon
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    21,66 €

  • Index to Fairy Tales, 1978-1986, Fifth Supplement
    Joseph W. Sprug / Joseph WSprug / Norma Olin Ireland / Peggy Sullivan
    This is the fifth supplement in the classic reference series begun by Mary Huse Eastman in 1926. Ireland and Sprug analyze 262 collections published between 1978 and 1986, with some 2,000 subject headings, plus copious cross-references. Many new headings are found in this volume, including additional adult headings of folklore and mythology to accommodate and increase in the nu...
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    228,31 €

  • Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore and Symbols, Volume 3
    Gertrude Jobes
    A timeless classic. ...
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    148,89 €

  • Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood
    Merlin Stone
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    29,28 €

  • The Frog King
    Boria Sax
    In this illuminating discussion of the role of animals in Western thought, the author shows, through his analysis of folklore, popular ideas, and natural history, that man’s traditional fascination with animals is more than it appears. Professor Sax asserts that ’animals put us in touch with modes of perception that are prior to culture. Encounters with animals compel us to que...
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    113,99 €

  • The Folkstories of Children
    Brian Sutton-Smith
    The Folkstories of ChildrenBrian Sutton-Smith'Will delight . . . the reader with the changing blend of fantasy, memory, and the conventions of literary form.'--Contemporary PsychologyWhat prompts children to tell stories? What does the word 'story' mean to a child at two or five years of age? The Folkstories of Children, first published in 1981, features nearly five hundred sto...
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    31,31 €

  • Encounter with Oral Literature
    Okumba Miruka / Simon Okumba Miruka
    The author has undertaken extensive research in oral literature and is the author of A Dictionary of Oral Literature. Here he uses an anthological approach to examine the various genres of oral literature both at the theoretical and analytical level. The anthology emphasises the areas of definition, classification, style and themes. The book is essentially an analysis of the fo...
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    34,59 €

  • Dictionary of American Folklore
    Marjorie Tallman
    Discover the delightful tales, characters, and themes of classic American storytelling in this comprehensive Dictionary of American Folklore. Ever wonder the origins of the fairy tales, myths, and legends passed down from generation to generation throughout America’s long history? From Paul Bunyan to Johnny Appleseed, Marjorie Tallman covers it all in an engaging voice sure to ...
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    15,37 €

  • Navajo Creation Myth
    Hasteen M. Klah / Hasteen MKlah
    The Navajo creation myth, called the Diné Bahaneʼ, is one of the greatest stories of the Native American peoples, filled with evocative images of nature and wondrous storytelling.Hasteen M. Klah was a Navajo medicine man who grew up among the culture, whereby ceremonial events and sandpainting were a direct expression of the people’s beliefs. Over the course of his life he soug...
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    12,54 €

  • Croatian Tales of Long Ago
    Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić / F. S. Copeland / FSCopeland
    This vibrant and illustrated selection of Croatian myths and heroic folk tales offers stunning glimpses into a centuries-old culture.The familiar themes of the fairy tale - the gallant hero, fearsome beast, and damsel-in-distress - were popular with the storytellers of Croatia of old. What makes these stories so interesting is the local variations of familiar narratives; the ma...
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    11,32 €

  • Legends of Maui
    W. D. Westervelt / WDWestervelt
    The Hawaiian island of Maui is the origin of one of the greatest myths, wherein the demigod Maui creates Hawaii by hauling the islands up from the ocean, and sees that this new land prospers.Maui’s many exploits are given in this translation, which is adapted from the original Hawaiian script derived from the telling of the Maui legend through many generations. Though no exact ...
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    11,98 €


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