New Stories and Old Legends
Author: Eleanora Louisa Hervey
Publisher:
Published: 1868
Total Pages: 190
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New Stories and Old Legends
Author: Mrs. T. K. Hervey
Publisher:
Published: 1868
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOld Indian Legends
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-03-08
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9781508785026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIKTOMI is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders.He even paints his funny face with red and yellow, and draws big black rings around his eyes. He wears a deerskin jacket, with bright colored beads sewed tightly on it. Iktomi dresses like a real Dakota brave. In truth, his paint and deerskins are the best part of him—if ever dress is part of man or fairy.
The Bloody Chamber
Author: Angela Carter
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-05-26
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0143107615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book—featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Sword Stone Table
Author: Swapna Krishna
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2021-07-13
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0593081900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings. Featuring stories by: Alexander Chee • Preeti Chhibber • Roshani Chokshi • Sive Doyle • Maria Dahvana Headley • Ausma Zehanat Khan • Daniel M. Lavery • Ken Liu • Sarah MacLean • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Jessica Plummer • Anthony Rapp • Waubgeshig Rice • Alex Segura • Nisi Shawl • S. Zainab Williams Here you’ll find the Lady of the Lake reimagined as an albino Ugandan sorceress and the Lady of Shalott as a wealthy, isolated woman in futuristic Mexico City; you'll see Excalibur rediscovered as a baseball bat that grants a washed-up minor leaguer a fresh shot at glory and as a lost ceremonial drum that returns to a young First Nations boy the power and the dignity of his people. There are stories set in Gilded Age Chicago, '80s New York, twenty-first century Singapore, and space; there are lesbian lady knights, Arthur and Merlin reborn in the modern era for a second chance at saving the world and falling in love—even a coffee shop AU. Brave, bold, and groundbreaking, the stories in Sword Stone Table will bring fresh life to beloved myths and give long-time fans a chance to finally see themselves in their favorite legends.
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club
Author: Genevieve Valentine
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1476739080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reimagining of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" traces the story of a family of flappers who work in a 1920s speakeasy until their suspicious father decides to marry them off, prompting a confrontation with a bootlegger from the eldest sister's past.
American Indian Stories
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-05-28
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Indian Stories is a collection of stories by Zitkála-Šá. The author was a Sioux historian and recounts here several colorful legends and tales from American Indian oral tradition.
Legends Told by the Old People
Author: Adolf Hungrywolf
Publisher: Book Publishing Company (TN)
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 74
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The Algonquin Legends of New England, Or, Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes
Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 [c1884]
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 444
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn Midnight Beach
Author: Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2020-03-31
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0571355609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonegal, 1976 When a dolphin takes up residence in Carrig Cove, Emer and her best friend, Fee, feel like they have an instant connection with it. Then Dog Cullen and his sidekick, Kit, turn up, and the four friends begin to sneak out at midnight to go down to the beach, daring each other to swim closer and closer to the creature . . . But the fame and fortune the dolphin brings to their small village builds resentment amongst their neighbours across the bay, and the summer days get longer and hotter . . . There is something wild and intense in the air. Love feels fierce, old hatreds fester, and suddenly everything feels worth fighting for. In this beautiful, epic coming-of-age novel, an old tale is rewoven as a stunning YA story by well-known Irish author/illustrator Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick.
