Showing posts with label myths and fairy tales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label myths and fairy tales. Show all posts
Sunday, January 10, 2021

The New Arabian Nights

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  The New Arabian Nights Robert Louis Stevenson Fiction, 186 pages The "Arabian Nights" first appeared during the 10th century bef...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Armageddon, anyone?

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Good omens : the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett Fiction 384 pages William Morrow, 19...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

The hidden meaning of fairy tales

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The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Bruno Bettelheim Non-fiction 328 pages Vintage Books, 1989, 1976 ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

A magical story collection

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Strange News from Another Star Hermann Hesse (Denver Lindley translator) Fiction 99 pages Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972 Although sev...
Sunday, February 03, 2013

Instant Karma

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The Tea Goddess Dekker Dreyer Fiction 156 pages Fringe Majority LLC. 2010 Kai and Ceire died before revealing their secret. A generati...
Sunday, December 09, 2012

Killing with the Edge of the Moon

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Killing with the Edge of the Moon A. A. Attanasio Fiction 160 pages Prime Books. 2006 Would you go all the way to Hell just to get a da...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Nowhere to Hide

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Once again Israel and Palestine are going at each other, and as usual, the Palestinians are getting the worst of it. Benjamin Netanyahu say...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

He read it all and lived to tell about it

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The Arabian Nights : Acompanion Robert Irwin Nonfiction 342 pages Tauris Parke Paperbacks. 2004 Henry Reeve discussed the translat...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2012

The Arabian Nights – Gathered, Privately Printed, and Out of Print

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While not all of us are familiar with the titles, “The Arabian Nights’ Entertainment” or “One Thousand and One Nights”, most of us have hear...