童话，神话，传说

Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey is one of the greatest and most influential literary works ever produced. However, its complex language and dense web of allusions and metaphors can be difficult for …

Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from …

This lively selection brings together journalist and broadcaster Libby Purves’ experiences as journalist, parent, governor and former pupil of half a dozen assorted schools from Bangkok to Tunbridge …

As many as one in four women have suffered severe neglect or abuse in childhood. This doubles the likelihood of their suffering clinical depression in adult life. Based on twenty years of systematic …

Giuseppe Pitre, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from …

{Then Allah sent a crow who scratched the ground to show murderer) said, ‘Woe to me! Am I not even able to be as this crow and to hide the dead body of my brother?’ Then he became one of those who …

This is a fairytale that more or less plays it straight, to use an inapt pun. It’s interesting to see how the writer could modulate his style, and that the more bizarre stuff is evidently no …

Man’s search for wealth has taken him to many out of the way places. Wealth can assume many forms, depending on the person striving for it. What is now Jackson Hole was a way of life to the …

The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (often published under its shorter title The Little Lame Prince) is a story for children written by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and first published in …

Great sequel to Cinderella plus many other stories in poetry From the preface: It is not always well to place Unbounded Faith in Fairy Lore, Believing that in every case They all lived Happy e …