Mythology & Folklore

A Venetian merchant’s account of two decades travelling the Silk Road to the court of Kublai Khan, which introduced Europe to the wonders of the East.

The tortoise and the hare, the boy who cried wolf, and dozens of other animal fables attributed to a Greek slave, still teaching morals 2,500 years later.

Snorri Sturluson’s 13th-century guide to Norse mythology, the source for most of what we know about Odin, Thor, and the end of the world at Ragnarök.

Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and dozens of other tales collected from across Europe, in the first and most famous of Andrew Lang’s twelve rainbow-coloured fairy books.

More fairy tales gathered from French, German, and Scandinavian sources, including early versions of Snow White and Rumpelstiltskin.

A sweeping single-volume retelling of Greek, Roman, and Norse myth that made the classical gods accessible to generations of readers who never touched the originals.