New Stories and Old Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New Stories and Old Legends write by Eleanora Louisa Hervey. This book was released on 1868. New Stories and Old Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Old Indian Legends
Old Indian Legends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Old Indian Legends write by Zitkala-Sa. This book was released on 2015-03-08. Old Indian Legends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. IKTOMI is a spider fairy. He wears brown deerskin leggins with long soft fringes on either side, and tiny beaded moccasins on his feet. His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands. Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders.He even paints his funny face with red and yellow, and draws big black rings around his eyes. He wears a deerskin jacket, with bright colored beads sewed tightly on it. Iktomi dresses like a real Dakota brave. In truth, his paint and deerskins are the best part of him—if ever dress is part of man or fairy.
American Indian Stories
American Indian Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Indian Stories write by Zitkala-Sa. This book was released on 2022-05-28. American Indian Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. American Indian Stories is a collection of stories by Zitkála-Šá. The author was a Sioux historian and recounts here several colorful legends and tales from American Indian oral tradition.
Sword Stone Table
Sword Stone Table - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sword Stone Table write by Swapna Krishna. This book was released on 2021-07-13. Sword Stone Table available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Bloody Chamber
The Bloody Chamber - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bloody Chamber write by Angela Carter. This book was released on 2015-05-26. The Bloody Chamber available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
