New Stories and Old Legends
Author : Eleanora Louisa Hervey
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Author : Eleanora Louisa Hervey
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Children's stories
ISBN :
Author : Zitkala-Sa
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2015-12-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781502872975
"[...]hurry off! Stop! halt!" urged one of the singers. "Stop! stay! Show us what is in your blanket!" cried out other voices. "My friends, I must not spoil your dance. Oh, you would not care to see if you only knew what is in my blanket. Sing on! dance on! I must not show you what I carry on my back," answered Iktomi, nudging his own sides with his elbows. This reply broke up the ring entirely. Now all the ducks crowded about Iktomi. "We must see what you carry! We must know what is in your blanket!" they shouted in both his ears. Some even brushed their wings against the mysterious bundle. Nudging himself again, wily Iktomi said, "My friends, 't is only a pack of songs I carry in my blanket." "Oh, then let us hear your songs!" cried the curious ducks. At length Iktomi consented to sing his songs. With delight all the ducks flapped their wings and cried together, "Hoye! hoye!" Iktomi, with great care, laid down his bundle on the ground. "I will build first a round straw house, for I never sing my songs in the open air," said he. Quickly he bent green willow sticks, planting both ends of each pole into[...]".
Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143107615
For 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.
Author : Swapna Krishna
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593081900
From 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.
Author : Zitkala-Sa
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486141802
A testimony to the power of one woman's spirit, this moving collection of autobiographical tales and family stories portrays a Native American teacher's struggle between her heritage and American society.
Author : Genevieve Valentine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476739080
A 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.
Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher : Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin, 1885 [c1884]
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Algonquian Indians
ISBN :
Author : Mrs. T. K. Hervey
Publisher :
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 19,50 MB
Release : 1868
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Adolf Hungrywolf
Publisher : Book Publishing Company (TN)
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :
A random selection of the countless number of stories that have been recorded by some of the tribe elders.
Author : Mrs. T. K. Hervey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,90 MB
Release : 1869
Category :
ISBN :