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  • Celtic Tales Told to the Children
    Louey Chisholm
    B/W edition. Illustrated by Katherine Cameron. A wonderfully illustrated classic, hand-edited and restored to its former glory. Directed primarily at children, this enchanting book contains three classic Celtic legends: The Star-Eyed Deirdre, The Four White Swans, and Dermat and Grania.Set in the age of the great Celtic realms in Scotland and Ireland, each tale bristles with in...
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    36,33 €

  • Celtic Tales Told to the Children
    Louey Chisholm
    Color edition. Illustrated by Katherine Cameron. A wonderfully illustrated classic, hand-edited and restored to its former glory. Directed primarily at children, this enchanting book contains three classic Celtic legends: The Star-Eyed Deirdre, The Four White Swans, and Dermat and Grania.Set in the age of the great Celtic realms in Scotland and Ireland, each tale bristles with ...
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    42,73 €

  • Page, Esquire, and Knight
    Marion Florence Lansing
    Illustrated by Charles CopelandFifteen exciting stories from the Medieval era of Knights, Courtly Love, and Chivalry, selected, arranged, and retold by Marion Florence Lansing. Beginning with the immortal story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, the book also covers Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Arthur’s passing, before moving on to the era of Charlemagne...
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    37,34 €

  • British Goblins
    Wirt Sikes
    One of the most beautiful and complete collections of stories, legends, myths, folktales, and traditions to ever emerge from Wales. Compiled by an American-the United States consul for Wales in the late nineteenth century-this volume was the work of several years’ labor.Scouring the hills and valleys of Wales after falling in love with the land, the author wrote down the oral t...
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    44,37 €

  • Croatian Tales of Long Ago
    Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić
    Color edition with ten color illustrations and many in black and white. Croatian Tales of Long AgoBy Ivana Berlić-Mažuranić. Translated by F. S. Copeland. Illustrated by Vladimir Kirin. Croatian Tales of Long Ago is a collection of six short stories, based on the author’s extensive knowledge of ancient Slavic mythology of Croatia.Mixing fairy stories with events, motifs, and le...
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    32,76 €

  • Stories from Dante
    Mary MacGregor
    Color edition. Illustrated by R. T. Rose. Dante’s Divine Comedy, written in the fourteenth century, is one of the greatest epic poems ever written in Italian, and it certainly ranks among the world’s greatest literary undertakings. This version, designed to introduce the Divine Comedy to younger readers (but older ones will find it equally readable), tells the story of each of ...
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    26,81 €

  • Stories from Dante
    Mary MacGregor
    Illustrated by R. T. Rose. Dante’s Divine Comedy, written in the fourteenth century, is one of the greatest epic poems ever written in Italian, and it certainly ranks among the world’s greatest literary undertakings. This version, designed to introduce the Divine Comedy to younger readers (but older ones will find it equally readable), tells the story of each of the canticas, o...
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    19,87 €

  • Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children
    Mary MacGregor
    Color edition. The marvelous Germanic legends of the Nibelungenlied-The Song of the Nibelungs-retold especially for children are a wonderful way to introduce young people to an enthralling part of European culture and heritage. The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German, drawn from ancient Germanic heroic motifs (the 'Nibelungensaga'), from around the year 1100.Th...
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    25,63 €

  • The Boys’ Cuchulain
    Eleanor Hull
    The Boys’ Cuchulain: Heroic Legends of Ireland is a perfect introduction for those wishing to gain a knowledge and understanding of the legends around the Irish mythological hero Cuchulain, the ’ancient defender of Ireland’ and that nation’s greatest warrior, as contained in the myths of the Ulster Cycle.The son of the god Lugh and Deichtine (sister of the equally legendary Iri...
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    24,35 €

  • The Mabinogion
    Lady Charlotte Guest
    Introduction and footnotes by Owen Edwards.The complete collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. Drawing on pre-Christian Celtic mythology-with some of the themes having been dated back to the early Iron Age-this marvelous compendium of tales contains some of the oldest European folklore in existence.The source material-the Red Book of Herges...
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    43,43 €

  • Stories of William Tell and His Friends
    H. E. Marshall / HEMarshall
    Color edition. Illustrated by I. L. Gloag. The legend of William Tell takes on new meaning in this wonderful retelling by master storyteller H. E. Marshall. William Tell is the folk hero of Switzerland whose exploits were first recorded in a fifteenth-century Swiss chronicle. Set in the time of the first Swiss Confederacy, Tell’s story runs alongside that of the struggle for in...
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    24,42 €

  • Stories of William Tell and His Friends
    H. E. Marshall / HEMarshall
    The legend of William Tell takes on new meaning in this wonderful retelling by master storyteller H. E. Marshall. William Tell is the folk hero of Switzerland whose exploits were first recorded in a fifteenth-century Swiss chronicle. Set in the time of the first Swiss Confederacy, Tell’s story runs alongside that of the struggle for independence waged against the Holy Roman Emp...
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    18,39 €

  • Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children
    Mary MacGregor
    The marvelous Germanic legends of the Nibelungenlied-The Song of the Nibelungs-retold especially for children are a wonderful way to introduce young people to an enthralling part of European culture and heritage. The Nibelungenlied is an epic poem in Middle High German, drawn from ancient Germanic heroic motifs (the 'Nibelungensaga'), from around the year 1100.This version tell...
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    18,63 €

  • The Crusaders
    Alfred J. Church / Alfred JChurch
    Color edition. A wonderful retelling of the stories of the First, Third, and Eighth Crusades, narrated by a fictional 'wandering Jew' (cursed to live until the Second Coming of Christ), this classic work takes the reader on an epic rollercoaster ride of the triumphs, tribulations, and ultimate defeat of the European counterattack against the rampant Muslim aggression which had ...
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    37,52 €

  • The Crusaders
    Alfred J. Church / Alfred JChurch
    Illustrated by George Morrow. A wonderful retelling of the stories of the First, Third, and Eighth Crusades, narrated by a fictional 'wandering Jew' (cursed to live until the Second Coming of Christ), this classic work takes the reader on an epic rollercoaster ride of the triumphs, tribulations, and ultimate defeat of the European counterattack against the rampant Muslim aggres...
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    23,36 €

  • Celtic Tales Told to the Children
    Louey Chisholm
    Color edition. Illustrated by Katherine Cameron. A wonderfully illustrated classic, hand-edited and restored to its former glory. Directed primarily at children, this enchanting book contains three classic Celtic legends: The Star-Eyed Deirdre, The Four White Swans, and Dermat and Grania.Set in the age of the great Celtic realms in Scotland and Ireland, each tale bristles with ...
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    25,64 €

  • Celtic Tales Told to the Children
    Louey Chisholm
    Illustrated by Katherine Cameron. A wonderfully illustrated classic, hand-edited and restored to its former glory. Directed primarily at children, this enchanting book contains three classic Celtic legends: The Star-Eyed Deirdre, The Four White Swans, and Dermat and Grania.Set in the age of the great Celtic realms in Scotland and Ireland, each tale bristles with intrigue, magic...
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    18,60 €

  • The Prose Edda
    Snorri Sturluson
    The Younger Edda, also known as Snorre’s Edda, or the Prose Edda, is a collection of Old Norse poems preserved by Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241). The Prose Edda forms the basis of what the world knows as Norse mythology, and contains legends of the creation of the cosmos and the best-known stories of Odin, Thor, and the other gods.The Prose Edda was originally referred to as simp...
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    42,33 €

  • Libro de College Station (Segunda edición)
    Pablo de Cuba Soria
    Segunda edición de Libro de College Station. Para José Prats Sariol en este libro 'el poeta encara su identidad, lo que convierte el Libro en una suerte de bildungsroman, no novela pero sí texto poético de iniciación y aprendizaje sobre la marcha del tren, de su tren que disecciona al escribirse'. ...
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    16,84 €

  • Nunca la deja
    Javier Marimón
    Lo razonable no tiene aquí sitio seguro. Nadie sabe si vive dentro o fuera. Todo puede suceder, hasta un grotesco guiñol con partes cercenadas de cuerpos humanos. Javier Marimón describe un cosmos a medio camino entre lo ficticio y lo existente, que dialoga de tú a tú con autores como Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter o Genet. Persistir, permanecer, es algo que, en medio de asesinatos, ...
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    16,34 €

  • 1000 - Il Druido, la Spada e il Corvo
    Guido Maria Giordano
    Una spada, dai magici poteri, accompagna l’anziano Alferius nel lungo e periglioso viaggio attraverso l’Italia medievale dell’Anno 1000.In primo piano Porpora di Tabellaria, Willa di Tuscia, Ava di Staggia. Donne forti, capaci di condizionare la storia della nostra bella penisola.Molti anni più tardi, la nascita dei Templari, le gesta di Sichelgaita e l’opera di Trotula de Ru...
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    10,87 €

  • Bourbon Penn 14
    Erik Secker
    Bourbon Penn’s devotion to visionary storytelling continues with issue #14: nonhuman species pursuing questionable agendas provoke two minimum-wage workers into doubting their own humanity ... a small town fraught with economic despair, where mothers mysteriously die, drives boyhood pals into an emotional quest for meaning through building their own fortress ... a college janit...
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    10,85 €

  • Prosa de la nación. Ensayos de literatura cubana
    Pedro Marqués de Armas
    'Si la coherencia del canon poético cubano, sustancialmente origenista, ha dependido del espejismo de cierta élite, lo mejor sería salirse por la tangente', escribe Pedro Marqués. En busca de esa salida, el autor rastrea lo que llama 'el relato', una cierta manera de narrar que asimila 'la prosa de la nación'. Líneas de fuga, en suma: el desvío decadente de Casal, el Lezama can...
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    17,82 €

  • El Chicotet Príncip
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    En l’any 1935 uns aviadors feen un vol que tenia que batre tots els récorts de velocitat entre Paris i Saigon. Pero l’avió en el que viajaven va tindre una averia i just quan sobrevolava el Sàhara, van caure en mig del desert. Intentaren arreglar l’aparell sense èxit. Despuix de quatre dies, casi a punt de morir, un beduí que passava per allà els va recollir i els va salvar la ...
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    51,91 €

  • Black Dandy #1
    H. Andrew Lynch / HAndrew Lynch
    Black Dandy is a quarterly literary journal dedicated to excellence in magic realism, surrealism, and the otherwise strange. Based in New Zealand, we’re proud to feature top talent from around the world. Our premiere issue features 10 stories from today’s most compelling writers. Relive 9/11 through the eyes of a chronic nail-biter, a Russian weightlifter, and a bureaucrat who ...
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    23,57 €

  • Stories of Roland Told to the Children
    H. E. Marshall / HEMarshall
    The classic Romantic French epic poem, known as The Song of Roland (La Chanson de Roland), is here retold for younger readers by master storyteller H. E. Marshall. The Song of Roland is one of the oldest surviving major works of French literature, dating from around 1150 AD, and possibly the greatest heroic and romantic poem of its genre.Although The Song of Roland is presented...
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    36,34 €

  • Stories from the Iliad
    Jeanie Lang
    This is a masterful retelling of the story of the siege of Troy, as contained in The Iliad. Written especially for younger readers, this book provides a perfect introduction to the storyline contained in the classic work, starting from the events which led to the ten-year siege of Troy by a coalition of Greek states, and ending with the death of Hector after the climactic final...
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    18,50 €

  • Stories from Wagner Told to the Children
    C. E. Smith / CESmith
    A knowledge of great European cultural works is vital for any well-rounded classical education, and the anti-European bias of many present-day educational curricula has led to the deliberate downplaying of great works of art such as Richard Wagner’s wonderful operas.Although this work was originally designed for younger readers, older persons seeking an introduction to Wagner’s...
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    36,37 €

  • Stories from the Odyssey Told to the Children
    Jeanie Lang
    A masterful retelling of The Odyssey, written especially for younger readers. This book provides a perfect introduction to the storyline contained in the famous classic work, starting from the end of the Trojan War when the hero Odysseus sets off for home after having spent ten years at war.All of the great events and adventures are recounted in this easy-to-read version-the la...
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    36,36 €

  • Stories from the Greek Comedians
    Alfred J. Church / Alfred JChurch
    The comedy of Classical Greece set the standard by which all of European-and ultimately world-comedic theater is judged. Here in this volume, the very best of Greek comedic works by the most famous authors is presented in easy-to-read English.While these works will grant the reader an insight into just how advanced Classical Grecian culture was, they also reveal otherwise hidde...
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    41,30 €


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