Found 1,189 results for "Tales, Medieval"
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
Genji monogatari
by Murasaki Shikibu
IN the reign of a certain Emperor, whose name is unknown to us, there was, among the Niogo and Koyi of the Imperial Cour...
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Since its publication in 1886, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has remained continuously in print and has be...
Decamerone
by Giovanni Boccaccio
DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...
The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Metamorphoses
by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington
What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...
Fables
by Aesop, Joseph Jacobs
ONE hot, sultry day, a Wolf and a Lamb happened to come, just at the same time, to quench their thirst in the stream of ...
Christmas Books (Battle of Life / Chimes / Christmas Carol /...
by Charles Dickens
MARLEY was dead, to begin with.
Telling tales
by Giuseppe C. Di Scipio
Medieval literature may have suffered most at the hands of those who profess to love it most dearly, and overarching int...
