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Mythology, Legends & Folklore: Public-Domain Books

29 popular free books on the “Mythology, Legends & Folklore” shelf.

The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the Homer · 117,338 words The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10) 165,494 words Four Arthurian Romances de Troyes, active 12th century Chrétien · 165,833 words King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table Thomas, Sir Malory · 84,946 words Hypnerotomachia: The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna · 71,472 words The Romance of Tristan and Iseult Joseph Bédier · 20,140 words Undine Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de La Motte-Fouqué · 32,377 words The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle · 95,892 words Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.) 37,047 words The Bakhtyār Nāma: A Persian Romance 69,683 words The Iliad Homer · 184,274 words Grimms' Fairy Tales Jacob Grimm · 85,999 words The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Pr Vatsyayana · 52,527 words Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 43,893 words Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory No Sophocles · 18,852 words The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII Ovid · 127,794 words The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving · 8,492 words Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 Thomas, Sir Malory · 147,605 words Aesop's Fables; a new translation Aesop · 34,015 words The Egyptian Book of the dead 139,580 words The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 632,012 words The Aeneid Virgil · 118,921 words Andersen's Fairy Tales H. C. Andersen · 47,736 words The Ballad of the White Horse G. K. Chesterton · 20,553 words Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend Aesop · 39,176 words The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Enterta 253,457 words Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod · 88,864 words Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Edmund, 1552?-1599 Spenser · 81,749 words Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch · 720,122 words