[PDF] Young Folks Library A Book Of Famous Myths And Legends eBook

Author : Thomas Joseph Shahan
Publisher :
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 35,75 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Legends
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A collection of tales of gods, heroes, and monsters, retold from famous myths and legends of the world.

Author : Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2017-12-19
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ISBN : 9780484120203

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Excerpt from The Young Folks' Library: Selection From the Choicest Literature of All Lands Legends are like the vines and tendrils that grow up about a tree. These sometimes hide its strength and cause its death, but they also lend to it a great and varied charm of color and outline. So Legends some times take the place of the real facts of history, but usually only add to them some touch of pathos or ten der human interest. To - day trained judgment has pruned away many old Legends from the great trunk of history. In this cleansing process, however, we have learned that Legends, like Myths, have their uses; that they are often symbols of deep truths that were once known to all, but in tme became changed into new shapes, often through ignorance and bad passions of the heart and mind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thomas J. Shahan
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 3849663744

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Ages ago, when the world was young, people did not know as much of nature and its secrets as we do now. Moreover, they did not have the art of writing, or if known to them, it was used only by a few, and its value for handing down the facts of history was not clearly understood. Thus, two great fields of knowledge, the world of nature and the world of history, were known only in a dim and vague way. Yet men and women were even then anxious to find out the causes of what they saw about them in nature, as well as to know whence and how they came to their native lands, through what journeys and labors, who were their ancient leaders in war, the builders of their cities, the founders of their laws and customs, and the like. In this book, the editor tells us of Beowulf, Rip van Winkle, Odysseus, the Argonauts, King Arthur and many tales more.