The Penguin Book of Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt

Every Egyptian myth and legend from the Eye of Ra to the legends of Isis, retold in fascinating details and lavishly illustrated and designed with ...

An authoritative A to Z guide to the mythologies and legends of the East, from ancient Egypt to Japan. Over 500 alphabetical entries describe the c...

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Reducere. Drama, death, glory and love flowed through the blood of the Egyptians under the watchful eyes of their Gods & Goddesses... Ancient Egypt was one o...

Tom is determined to rescue his father, Jack the Giant-Killer, from the clutches of the dastardly Ormestone. But to do so he will have to venture i...

An exciting collection of mythology about heroes, heroines, villains, and monsters in the intriguing world of the nomad warriors of the Caucasus Th...

Two highly accessible books charting the mythology and religion of ancient Egypt over 3, 000 years, and the iconic temples, tombs and treasures of ...

An authoritative A-Z to the mythologies of the East, with 500 entries and 400 pictures.

From its humble origins as a cluster of rival chiefdoms along the banks of the Nile, ancient Egypt rose to become one of the most advanced civiliza...

The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spir...

Contributor(s): Editor: Paul KeeganSpanning seven centuries, this ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologi...

Get ready to travel through time with 21 dazzling stories of daring and deceit, reward and punishment. Meet gods and goddesses, serpents, coyotes, ...

Reducere. The sagas of the ancient Narts are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the W...

Unrivaled in its range and intensity, the poetry of World War I continues to have a powerful effect on readers. This newly edited anthology reflect...

Contributor(s): Author: VariousEditor: Barbara KorteEditor: Ann-Marie EinhausAn anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famou...

Gathers together poetry in Hebrew from "The Song of Deborah" to contemporary Israeli writings. Verse written up to the tenth century show the devel...

This book supports trainee and beginning teachers to understand what 'mastery' is and how to effectively integrate it into class teaching. It explo...

Presents an introduction to the mythology of the peoples, who inhabited the northwestern fringes of Europe from Britain and the Isle of Man to Gaul...

India is particularly rich in colourful folklore. With stories told by parents to their children for many generations, this is a rich collection of...

Reducere. Marie L. McLaughlin delivers a memorable selection of Native American stories infused with folklore and oral traditions passed on from one generati...

Reducere. Marie L. McLaughlin delivers a memorable selection of Native American stories infused with folklore and oral traditions passed on from one generati...

Includes supernatural tales and legends: from a ghostly army marching across Cumbria to the vanishing hitchhiker of Bluebell Hill, from the gruesom...

Publisher: Penguin AdultAuthor(s): John FreemanNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 35Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 496Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 198 x 40Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Kadija S...

Reducere. Historian and author M. B. Synge tells the reader the greatest and most compelling stories of antiquity; those of ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome and I...

Reducere. Dagda swept his fingers across the strings of the harp, and a beautiful melody started to play. It was the music of grief that had the Fomorians st...

Reducere. Dagda swept his fingers across the strings of the harp, and a beautiful melody started to play. It was the music of grief that had the Fomorians st...

A new edition of the definitive collection of modern poetry from Africa "Poetry, always foremost of the arts in traditional Africa, " writes Gerald...

"Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants" is one of the most valuable botanical folkloric works ever penned. It contains a wealth o...

Reducere. Chaos was the origin of everything, the beginning of time. From Chaos sprang forth three primordial deities, Gaea, Tartarus & Eros...Ancient Greece...

Reducere. Chaos was the origin of everything, the beginning of time. From Chaos sprang forth three primordial deities, Gaea, Tartarus & Eros...Ancient Greece...

First Penguin volume Of best Japanese haiku Vivid translations Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a Japanese verse form that flourished ...

"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guant namo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book Review Three...

Reducere. Do you know that the Sumerians believed that: The moon was actually a god child conceived unintentionally by the God Enlil and a maid?Or that human...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 142 x 205 x 39Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Kaveh AkbarRedescope...

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and I...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Explore Captivating Cherokee MythsIn Cherokee myth-as in other Indigenous American traditions-the whole of creation is alive and able to communicat...

Today, we may encounter the legacy of ancient Roman myths before we encounter the stories themselves, whether this is in day-to-day speech, the art...

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Reducere. Most fascinating about the ancient Egyptians is that they were natural-born storytellers, which shows not only in their myths and gods, but also in...

Reducere. Explore Captivating African Mythology and Egyptian GodsTwo captivating manuscripts in one book: African Mythology: Captivating Myths of Gods, Godde...