Download or read book Tales of the Quest written by Katherine Woodbury and published by Peaks Island Press. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ah, the Quest! The sight of chivalric knights setting forth on heroic tasks to win the hand of the fair princess stirs any heart. This fourth installment in the Roesia Chronicles explores the dark and violent beginnings of the Quest up to its pragmatic and often humorous present. Amidst all the game playing, will true love and genuine respect still triumph? Therein lies quite the tale.
Download or read book Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Quest 1 written by Patrick Shand and published by Zenescope Entertainment. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brand new epic fantasy series from Pat Shand (Robyn Hood, Unleashed) begins now! A rogue princess Aisling teams up with Blake, a fallen Wonderland knight, and Bolder, a dwarf banished from his home, to protect the realm of Myst from the dark shadows of its past. Journey with this ragtag team of disgraced warriors as they fight for redemption in a world that has forgotten them.
Download or read book Grimm Fairy Tales presents Quest 2 written by Patrick Shand and published by Zenescope Entertainment. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With guidance from the goddess Druanna, known to many as Gaia and Mother Earth, Blake, Bolder, and Aisling continue their quest to save the Realm! However, their old lives begin to catch up with them in the form of ghosts from their past…which is, unfortunately for them, a bit too literal. The countdown to Grimm Fairy Tales #100 begins
Download or read book World Folklore for Storytellers Tales of Wonder Wisdom Fools and Heroes written by Howard J Sherman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a treasury of favorite and little known tales from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Oceania, gracefully retold and accompanied by fascinating, detailed information of their historic and cultural backgrounds. The introduction provides an informative overview of folklore, its purpose in world cultures and in contemporary society and popular culture. Following this, the main sections of the book are arranged by tale type, covering wonder tales, hero tales, tales of kindness repaid and hope and redemption, and finally tales of fools and wise people. Each section begins by comparing the tales cross-culturally, explaining similarities and differences in the folkloric narratives. Tales from diverse cultures are then presented, introduced, and retold in a highly readable fashion.
Download or read book riu written by Kuno Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book David Mitchell written by Sarah Dillon and published by Gylphi Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The outcome of the first international conference on David Mitchell's writing, this collection of critical essays focuses on his first three novels - 'Ghostwritten', 'number9dream' and 'Cloud Atlas' - to provide an analysis of Mitchell's complex narrative techniques and the literary, political and cultural implications of his work.
Download or read book Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.' Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.
Download or read book Iwain written by Arthur Charles Lewis Brown and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pick Your Own Quest written by Connor Hoover and published by Pick Your Own Quest. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your granny disappears into a closet, and suddenly you're trapped in the world of fairy tales. You need to get out of here! Should you trust the evil witch? Climb the tower? One path might be the way out. Another might be your end.
Download or read book Journal of Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quest for Middle Earth written by Dirk Vander Ploeg and published by Dirk Vander Ploeg. This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Quest for Middle-earth he suggests that The Lord of the Rings may be more than an imaginary tale set thousands of years in the past in a place called Middle-earth! What if J.R.R. Tolkien weaved his fictional characters into a tapestry created from the secret knowledge of earth's ancient history?" Is there historical and archaeological evidence that supports this position and was any of this knowledge known to Tolkien? Recent discoveries in Iraq (ancient Sumer, Babylon), Greece and Finland confirm the possibility that intelligent creatures once lived and worked alongside man. There are clues that point to the fact, that as a race, we were the labor force required to serve superior beings - Gods - to create their vision of heaven on earth. Discover the truth about the Sang Real (Royal Blood), Rennes-la-Chateau and the Templar Knights!
Download or read book Discoveries written by Harold Schechter and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of this short story reader includes new stories by writers from diverse cultural backgrounds, including Amy Tan, Bharati Mukherjee, and B. K. Narayan, and representing a new generation of writers, such as Stephen Milhauser, Ellen Gilchrist, and Patrick McGrath. The anthology is organized around the quest pattern delineated by Joseph Campbell.
Download or read book The Dragons Call written by Judy Hayman and published by Practical Inspiration Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spring is coming, the snow is melting and the young dragons are growing up. There are quarrels and new alliances, a family problem to solve, a desperate hunt and help from unexpected friends.Soon Emily and her family must leave the Castle and head home to Ben McIlwhinnie and their Scottish Glen, where Tom gets a shock, Lily finds playmates and Emily faces the biggest challenge of her life. There is excitement but also sadness in this, the sixth and last volume of the Dragon Tales Chronicles.
Download or read book Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours written by St. Louis Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of magic tales in print written by Willem De Blecourt and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only lately have more and more specialists been arguing in favour of at least an interdependence between oral and printed distribution of stories. This book takes an extreme position in that debate: as far as Tales of magic is concerned, the initial transmission proceded exclusively through prints. From a historical perspective, this is the only viable approach; the opposite assumption of a vast unrecorded and thus inaccessible reservoir of oral stories, presents a horror vacui. Only in the course of the nineteenth century, when folklorists started collecting in the field and asked their informants for fairy tales, was this particular genre incorporated into a then feeble oral tradition. Even then story tellers regularly reverted to printed texts. Every recorded fairy tale can be shown to be dependent on previous publications, or to be a new composition, constructed on the basis of fragments of stories already in existence. Tales of magic, tales in print traces the textual history of a number of fairy tale clusters, linking the findings of literary historians on the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries to the material collected by nineteenth- and twentieth-century field workers. While it places fairy tales as a genre firmly in a European context, it also follows particular stories in their dispersion over the rest of the world.
Download or read book The Spiritual Quest written by Robert M. Torrance and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Torrance's wide-ranging, innovative study argues that the spiritual quest is rooted in our biological, psychological, linguistic, and social nature. The quest is not, as most have believed, a rare mystical experience, but a frequent expression of our most basic human impulses. Shaman and scientist, medium and poet, prophet and philosopher, all venture forth in quest of visionary truths to transform and renew the world. Yet Torrance is not trying to reduce the quest to an "archetype" or "monomyth." Instead, he presents the full diversity of the quest in the myths and religious practices of tribal peoples throughout the world, from Oceania to India, Africa, Siberia, and especially the Americas. In theorizing about the quest, Torrance draws on thinkers as diverse as Bergson and Piaget, van Gennep and Turner, Pierce and Popper, Freud, Darwin, and Chomsky. This is a book that will expand our knowledge—and awareness—of a fundamental human activity in all its fascinating complexity.
Download or read book The Bookman written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
