azw3 |eng | 2004-03-17 | Author:Fee, Christopher R. [Fee, Christopher R.]

Heroic Journeys and Quests At the center of most hero myths is the quest. Through the quest adventure, the hero proves his worth and “makes a name” for himself. The ...

epub |eng | 2019-05-13 | Author:Robert Kirk

A succinct account of My Lord of Tarbat’s relations in a letter to the Honorable Robert Boyle, Esquire (of the predictions made by seers whereof himself was ear- and eyewitness) ...

epub |eng | 2016-01-25 | Author:Giambattista Basile

9 ROSELLA* Ninth Entertainment of the Third Day The Grand Turk has a prince captured so that he can bathe in a lord’s blood. His daughter falls in love with ...

epub |eng | 1992-11-15 | Author:Italo Calvino [Calvino, Italo]

* * * them for fools. But the two youths didn't give up hope and continued their search. One evening the older boy met an old man who was part-sorcerer. ...

mobi |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Italian Folktales

them for fools. But the two youths didn’t give up hope and continued their search. One evening the older boy met an old man who was part-sorcerer. “Tell me, is ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-17 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch

Spenser introduces Sir Tristram in his Faery Queene. In Book VI., Canto ii., Sir Calidore encounters in the forest a young hunter, whom he thus describes:—“Him steadfastly he marked, and ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 1881-04-26 | Author:Thomas Bulfinch [Bulfinch, Thomas]

Chapter 14 Sir Tristram's Battle with Sir Launcelot Sir Tristram rode through a forest and saw ten men fighting, and one man did battle against nine. So he rode to ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-02-28 | Author:Noble, Carrie Anne [Noble, Carrie Anne]

Inside the speeding wagon, O’Neill and I sit on woven mats. Soraya reclines on an upholstered couch, snoring most daintily. Apparently she is unbothered by Dr. Phipps’s wild driving, how ...

epub |eng | 1909-12-31 | Author:James Honeÿ

16 The Story of a Dam There was a great drought in the land; and Lion called together a number of animals so that they might devise a plan for ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Barber, Elizabeth Wayland & Barber, Paul T. [Barber, Elizabeth Wayland]

* * * 1 Joshua Katz points out to us that hocus pocus is a mutilation(!) of the Eucharistic phrase Hoc est corpus [meum], “This is [my] body.” 2 After ...

mobi |es | 2011-12-10 | Author:Jorge Luis Borges

06 —El hijo de tu compañera se ha portado bien, Brun. Ha sido una matanza limpia y buena —dijo Zoug mientras los cazadores depositaban al animal sobre el suelo delante ...

mobi, epub, azw3 | | 1998-02-01 | Author:Lafcadio Hearn

"It is now our honorable duty to inform you... as to the reason of your having been summoned hither... Our master, the King, augustly desires that you become his son-in-law;... ...

epub |eng | 1984-12-31 | Author:Leena Krohn [Krohn, Leena]

291 But that happened only when I was able to be alone in the room. When the other children came to listen to the radio, I found other things to ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Daniel Diehl

Twelve From Russia with Hate: André Chikatilo (1978–90) Life has always been hard in the Russian states and it was especially true in 1936 when André Chikatilo was born in ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-10 | Author:Calvino, Italo [Calvino, Italo]

*93* The Palace of the Doomed Queen In bygone days there lived an old widow who earned her bread by spinning. She had three daughters who also were spinners. Although ...