Catálogo de libros: Mitos y leyendas narrados como ficción

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  • Stella of Akrotiri
    Linda Rae Sande
    Born an orphan, raised as a warrior princess, desired by men. Can an Immortal claim her heart?Unable to bear children of their own, Immortals Darius of Agremon and Stella of Akrotiri have raised over fifty adopted sons during their fourteen hundred years together, only to watch them grow old and die.Their first daughter, Diana, spends her mornings training with Darius at the ag...
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    12,53 €

  • Armenian Mythology
    Mardiros H. Ananikian / Mardiros HAnanikian
    Armenian mythology was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism, with deities such as Aramazd, Mihr or Anahit, as well as Assyrian traditions, such as Barsamin, but there are fragmentary traces of native traditions, such as Hayk or Vahagn and Astghik.According to De Morgan there are signs which indicate that the Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith in tim...
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    30,87 €

  • The Queen of Egypt
    Samuel Ebeid
    It’s about 5000 years ago and Egypt is a mess! The royal dynasty has been overthrown and the usurper king has already been murdered. His children have divided the kingdom and both have fallen under foreign domination. The Celestials, a race of aliens that nurtured the Egyptian civilization, have had a delegation of their heralds kidnapped and are threatening retribution.Meanwhi...
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    15,06 €

  • Grimm's Fairy Tales
    Jacob Grimm / Wilhem Grimm
    Do you want to read Grimm’s Fairy Tales? If so then keep reading… They are the stories we've known since we were children. Rapunzel. Hansel and Gretel. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. But the works originally collected by the Brothers Grimm in the early 1800s are not necessarily the versions we heard before bedtime. They're darker and often don't end very happily--but ...
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    16,12 €

  • Happily Ever After
    Liana Brooks
    Rose got her happily ever after, complete with castle, prince and ornate banquets every night. But after four centuries, Rose can state definitively: happy endings suck. No concerts, no plays, no children or visits with friends... Not one single change in four hundred years. That ends, now. Before Rose destroys her castle in a fit of pique. A fractured fairytale about the dange...
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    5,15 €

  • Pulp Literature Winter 2020
    A M Dellamonica / Graham Robert Scott / Wallace Cleaves
    With the beautiful red pointe shoe of On Thin Ice, cover artist Ann-Marie Brown offers this issue’s poignant opening act. Just as a dancer en pointe appears weightless, suspended in a moment of grace, so too do our authors, balancing the weight of beauty and sorrow.Blood and booze set the stage in ‘Wrap Party’ as featured author AM Dellamonica takes us behind the scenes of comm...
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    10,66 €

  • Jóhonaaʼéí -Tales From America’s South West
    Clive Gilson
    This collection covers a range of cultures and themes based around the California Basin and South Western nations. There is no single mythology of the Indigenous North American peoples. There are numerous traditions and narratives associated with religion, ethics and core beliefs. These stories are deeply based in nature and are rich with the symbolism of seasons, weather, plan...
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    19,36 €

  • The Chronicles of Lord Asunaro
    Kanji Hanawa / Meredith McKinney
    A Japanese tale - not about daring ninja or battling samurai - but a hero with a very different penchant. Based on an actual historical figure, the Akutagawa-nominated master short story writer, Kanji Hanawa, takes the reader on a journey of self-discovery, as Lord Asunaro inherits his own Japanese fiefdom and grapples with his role and ultimate legacy. Hanawa provides us with ...
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    10,91 €

  • The King of Elfland’s Daughter
    Dunsany Lord / LORD DUNSANY
    2020 Reprint of 1924 Edition.  Dunsany’s fantasy novel is widely recognized as one of the most influential and acclaimed works in all of fantasy literature.  This captivating tale is the forerunner of modern sword and sorcery novels. It tells of a young lord's quest through a supernatural world in search of a fairy princess bride, recounting the lovers' romance, separat...
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    10,03 €

  • Lord of Horses
    H. L. Macfarlane / HLMacfarlane
    Sometimes a villain is not a villain, and first impressions have to change…When the disgraced kelpie of Loch Lomond, Murdoch, discovers a new threat to his homeland, he finds a loophole in his banishment to show up at Sorcha Darrow’s door. Despite initial misgivings about Murdoch’s plea for help, Sorcha quickly agrees to help the creature out of guilt for what she did to him tw...
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    14,02 €

  • Fall of the Reaper
    Miranda Honfleur / Nicolette Andrews
    Should it wake, its nightmares will consume the world...After her life nearly fell apart, Brygida finally knows her place: away from the village, with her mothers, healing the slumbering wood to keep the nightmares at bay. Her family grimoire warns that the wood may never be allowed to wake, and she claims that duty for her own. Her mind does turn to the new lord of Rubin, but ...
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    14,60 €

  • Fall of the Reaper
    Miranda Honfleur / Nicolette Andrews
    Should it wake, its nightmares will consume the world...After her life nearly fell apart, Brygida finally knows her place: away from the village, with her mothers, healing the slumbering wood to keep the nightmares at bay. Her family grimoire warns that the wood may never be allowed to wake, and she claims that duty for her own. Her mind does turn to the new lord of Rubin, but ...
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    32,08 €

  • The Sun and The Boy
    Steven Flint
    The Sun and The Boy, is a gentle yet powerful allegory that takes the reader on an unforgettable journey from the mundane imperfections of life to a beautifully mystical experience of the soul. In this short and simple story, many important topics of the human experience are explored in an imaginative and clear way. Complex issues like love, jealousy, loneliness and betrayal...
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    15,64 €

  • Indebted
    Charmayne Hafen
    The king favors conquests that require his person and authority far away from his daughter, leaving her to her own devices.Little does he know, things are about to change; the princess has matured. There is a dragon to slay.On the appointed day, when the princess finds some muscle and companions...she must face the dragon.No longer a lost bird, Wren discovers a new kingdom, whe...
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    12,31 €

  • Favorite Fairy Tales
    Various Authors
    An anthology of twelve fairy tales for all ages. Stories include The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen, Hansel and Gretel by The Brothers Grimm, The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde, The Little Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe by Joseph Martin Kronheim, Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault, East of The Sun And West of The Moon by Peter Christen Asbjornsen, The Tiger, The Brahmin a...
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    12,65 €

  • The Age of an Endless Kite
    Jordon E Thill
    Failure has been a part of the world since the beginning of time. From tales such as Icarus, which portrays one who flies too high to be devoured by the endless ocean. From tales such as Oedipus, which show the folly in denying one's destiny and the struggle to uphold one's beliefs. From tales such as the greedy God Saturn, devouring his own children to stay in power to...
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    7,83 €

  • The Cracked Slipper
    Stephanie Alexander
    “...a sophisticated and fantastical twist to the beloved Cinderella fairy tale.” — A. G. Howard, author of the Splintered Series When Eleanor Brice loses a glass slipper, she unexpectedly gains a royal fiancé and a way out of her abusive stepmother’s house. Unfortunately, eight years of mistreatment, isolation, and clandestine book learning hardly prepared Eleanor for life at E...
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    17,41 €

  • Nettie’s Tea House
    R.D. Petti / R.DPetti
    A mystical journey of self-discovery ... and finding the true meaning of home.Morgan Rees, a student at Living Masters University in the Cascades, is considered gifted among the gifted. With her advanced psychic skills and vast knowledge of botanical medicine, she is being groomed to assume the helm of the university when its current president retires. Yet something is missing....
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    17,84 €

  • Tales From The Land of Hope & Glory
    Clive Gilson
    The wonder of storytelling is in the ritual. We have been sharing our stories, adult and child, for millennia. Before the advent of pen and parchment people relied on stories being passed through the generations as both history and as caution or adventure or excitement. Stories were and remain an essential element in the cultural and spiritual life of communities the world over...
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    23,31 €

  • Tales Told By Bulls & Wolves
    Clive Gilson
    Italian literature arguably began after the founding of Rome in 753 BC. Latin literature was, and still is, highly influential in the world, with numerous writers, poets, philosophers, and historians, such as Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Ovid and Livy.Much later, following in the footsteps of Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron, It...
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    23,67 €

  • Tales Of Fire & Bronze
    Clive Gilson
    Mythology was at the heart of everyday life in Ancient Greece. Greeks regarded mythology as a part of their history, using myth to explain natural phenomena, cultural variations, traditional enmities and friendships. It was a source of pride to be able to trace the descent of one's leaders from a mythological hero or a god. Few ever doubted that there was truth behind the a...
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    19,79 €

  • Tales From The Samodivi
    Clive Gilson
    The worlds of folklore and traditional storytelling are fascinating places to visit wherever the land or the people may be Tales from different regions are often shaped by geography and by cultural and historical factors that have accumulated over the course of centuries. At their heart, though, is an ever present desire to explain and understand the world and the experience of...
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    20,29 €

  • Tales From The Land Of The Strigoi
    Clive Gilson
    It is said that a particular feature of Romanian culture is the relationship between folklore and classical education and the arts. This is, in part, attributed to the rural character of Romanian life that has produced an exceptionally vital and creative traditional culture. Romanian folklore tales were the main literary genre until the 18th century, being both a source of insp...
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    19,49 €

  • Tales From The Land Of The Brave
    Clive Gilson
    Folklore, fairy tales, myths and legends from Scotland.This volume, Tales from the Land of The Brave, is the Scottish collection, part of a series covering the whole of the British Isles. These tales are drawn from some of the great collectors of Celtic and Scottish storytelling, and as ever, these stories illustrate the beauty and the darkness inherent in our ancestral memorie...
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    23,32 €

  • Tales From The Land of Saints & Scholars
    Clive Gilson
    This is the first of two volumes, so rich are the story-mining seams taken from just the few Irish collections I have in my possession at the moment. These first stories have been taken from around one hundred and forty Irish tales, themselves taken from pretty well every tradition, including classic tales of Irish legend, fairy and folk beliefs, and tales in the vernacular, or...
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    26,54 €

  • Tales From The Lands Of Snow & Ice
    Clive Gilson
    This is the first in a two volume collection of tales from Scandinavia. There is a clear and rich tradition of storytelling in the north, perhaps dictated by long winter nights and roaring fires. Whenever you read the sagas or pick up on the wandering collections of Hans Christien Andersen and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, amongst many others, you tap into a centuries old heritage...
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    19,83 €

  • Tales Told By The Wind Mother
    Clive Gilson
    Folklore & Fairy Tales from the Magyars (Hungary) - Here we have a rich mine of folk and fairy tales from the Magyar tradition. I’ve taken the following extract from Wikipedia as a starting point for this introduction…“According to András Róna-Tas the locality in which the Hungarians, the Manicha-Er group, emerged was between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains. Between the ...
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    19,79 €

  • Tales From Gallia
    Clive Gilson
    In Tales from Gallia we have a collection of tales from the French & Gallic folk tradition. These tales were originally collected by Andrew Lang, Charles Perrault, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, Comtesse de Sophie Ségur, Marie-Catherine Le Jumel de Barneville, Baroness d'Aulnoy, Katharine Pyle and Edmund Dulac, representing some of the finest collectors working from th...
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    19,71 €

  • Tales From Germania
    Clive Gilson
    Tales From Germania, as with the collection of stories from France, Tales From Gallia, concentrates on those lesser known stories from the Brothers Grimm alongside other collectors such as Andrew Lang, Margaret Arndt and Logan Marshall. I also found some interesting but unattributed tales to add to the mix.Although the stories told by the brothers and Andrew Lang have become ol...
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    19,71 €

  • More Tales Of Saints & Scholars
    Clive Gilson
    This is a second volume of Irish tales, so rich are the story-mining seams taken from just the few Irish collections I have in my possession at the moment. Across the two volumes we have around one hundred and forty tales taken from pretty well every tradition, including classic tales of Irish legend, fairy and folk beliefs, and tales in the vernacular, oral tradition.For the m...
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    22,91 €


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