Mythology & Fables Archives

Mythology & Fables

Lively, well-argued essays on the role of fairy tales in our culture now. Far from outgrowing them, the world needs these stories as much as - if not more than - ever. .

Once upon a Time There Was Truth: or, Why We Need Fairy Tales ...

Jack Zipes

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Pearls From Their Mouth

Pear Nuallak

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Once the most widely read of German romantic stories, the capricious water nymph Undine has inspired countless artists and writers, from E.T.A. Hoffmann to George MacDonald, Arthur Rackham a... read more

Undine

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

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Medea for the modern age.

No Friend to This House

Natalie Haynes

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Myths and transformations glint in Gianisi's three collections Homerica, Cicada and Chimera, published together in one volume. Translated from the Greek.

Goatsong

Phoebe Giannisi

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An anthology of new, chilling short stories by Abir Mukherjee, Janice Hallett, Stuart Turton and others.

Monstrous Tales: Haunting encounters with Britain’s mythical bea ...

Rosie Andrews

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A mid-C19th collection of folktales, first published in 1841: this is its first new English translation in 150 years. Asbjornsen and Moe are the Brothers Grimm of Norway.

The Complete and Original Norwegian Folktales of Asbjornsen and Moe ...

Peter Christen Asbjornsen

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A wonderful - and serious - compendium by the British folklorist, scholar and author.

Briggs’s Dictionary of Fairies: Banshees, Boggarts and Other Fol ...

Katharine Briggs

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Pieces together the story of a young woman who fell ill in a tower on a hill, was confined there by her father for three years and eventually died. Using fiction, fairytale and memoir, Lena... read more

The Tower

Thea Lenarduzzi

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The latest in this excellent series on regional/national mythologies from Thames & Hudson.

The Maya Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Ancestors ...

Mallory Matsumoto

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The catalogue for a new Hayward exhibition about the artist's interest in books, folklore, fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Paula Rego: Visions of English Literature

Marco Livingstone

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A captivating account of the author's life-long love affair with Greece, her youthful experience - sometimes very painful - finding a parallel in classical myth.

Dust and Pomegranates: How Greece Changed Me Forever ...

Victoria Whitworth

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An exploration of darkness through literature, in which memory, history and myth are deployed as instruments of illumination.

Night Vision: In Search of the True Dark

Jean Sprackland

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The master of American spookiness has based his retelling of the Grimm brothers' tale around the great Sendak's set and costume designs for Humperdinck's eponymous opera. (King has not adjus... read more

Hansel and Gretel

Stephen King

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A new translation by a distinguished classicist, a fine verse rendering that keeps much of the formal poetics of the original. With an introductory essay and notes by the translator.

The Odyssey

Homer

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In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.

The Voyage Home

Pat Barker

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A new volume in this excellent series, useful for those interested in comparative mythology or the kaleidoscope of contemporary Korean culture.

The Korean Myths: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends ...

Heinz Insu Fenkl

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A year of saints, day-by-day, with their legends and cults; illustrated with woodcuts by the author, who had a great success with Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain.

Saints: A new legendary of heroes, humans and magic ...

Amy Jeffs

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A wandering sailor entertains Alfred with tales of shipwreck and a ruler embedded in ice. By the former Children's Laureate and scholar of things Norse and Anglo-Saxon. For ages 8-12.

King Alfred and the Ice Coffin

Kevin Crossley-Holland

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An exploration of Britain's identity, from Neolithic Orkney to Thanet, which argues for the historic status of women in the body politic.

The Britannias: An Archipelago’s Tale

Alice Albinia

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The author draws on myth and folklore in this fine collection of her stories; some readers will remember her wonderful work of non-fiction Gossip from the Forest: The Tangled Roots of Our Fo... read more

True North: Selected Stories

Sara Maitland

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These spirits and their bizarre manifestations are not taken straight from the Japanese but rather from the English collections of the Meiji and Taisho eras, including those of Lafcadio Hear... read more

The Snow Ghost and Other Tales: Classic Japanese Ghost Stories ...

Various

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The Grimm Brothers' tale recast as a C21st dystopia by the Poet Laureate. Illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins, who also did the other-worldly illustrations for Armitage's Sir Gawain and the ... read more

Hansel & Gretel: A Nightmare in Eight Scenes

Simon Armitage

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The Firebird, Baba Yaga and their cohorts of human, divine and supernatural beings: an enjoyable mix of stories from the Carpathians with analysis of their traditional context. Illustrated ... read more

The Slavic Myths

Noah Charney

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Clever mice, cunning crocodiles, loquacious tortoises: many of the stories from the Panchatantra made their way into the fables of Aesop and even La Fontaine. Here are a handful, retold by t... read more

Animal Tales from India: Ten Stories from the Panchatantra ...

Nikita Gill

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A ferocious new verse translation.

Metamorphoses

Ovid

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Marvellous storytelling for ages 9-13 by Tom Holland, the historian.

The Wolf-Girl, the Greeks and the Gods: a Tale of the Persian Wars ...

Tom Holland

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Scholarly but accessible approach to Thor, Odin et alia, the green myth of Yggdrasil and the darker one of Ragnarok, and the way these have been recast repeatedly. Some illustrations. A comp... read more

The Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think

Carolyne Larrington

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Egeler begins his remarkable history of the faerie world in the meadows of Iceland, moving on to Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, from its Norse and Celtic origins to the lamplit rooms o... read more

Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld ...

Matthias Egeler

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A carefully annotated, illustrated catalogue to the remarkable costumes and paraphernalia acquired in Siberia and Mongolia in the 1930s by two Danish travellers - Henning Haslund-Christensen... read more

Mongol Shamans: Shaman Costumes at the National Museum of Denmark ...

Rolf Gilberg

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A deft and powerful retelling of the myth of Medusa - the only mortal born to a family of gods, whose life was upended by Athene's revenge on Poseidon. Haynes' work is always exciting.

Stone Blind: Medusa’s Story

Natalie Haynes

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Creation stories, dragons, gods, demigods, the Queen Mother of the West, rivers, mountains; legends from Dunhuang, Buddhism, Daoism, etc. Illustrated. (By the late 1980s, most of these were... read more

The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends

Tao Tao Liu

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Stoppard's libretto for André Previn's Penelope - a monodrama by Odysseus's wife - first performed in 2019 by Renée Fleming, Uma Thurman and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Penelope

Tom Stoppard

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New edition of this wonderful classic. Ages 7-11.

Tales of the Greek Heroes

Roger Lancelyn Green

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Heracles, Perseus et alia: a collection for the fairly young. Another book of classical tales written and illustrated by Marcia Williams. Ages 5-7.

Greek Heroes: Top Ten Myths and Legends

Marcia Williams

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It's an odd state of things if publishers believe that girls need elided versions of classical tales - but far better they read this than none at all, of course. Circe, Demeter, Penelope, Ar... read more

Tales of Brave and Brilliant Girls from the Greek Myths ...

Rosie Dickins

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