55 Traditional Stories from Around the World
This book is a collection of 55 folktales that feature supernatural abilities.
These tales represent powers--from invisibility to shape-shifting--that people have dreamed of, conjured up and strived for through the ages.
Many of the powers are present in popular culture, making the superheroes who wield them the direct descendants of characters such as... [click here for more]
Imagine, Joseph Campbell and Groucho Marx, Homer (the greek one) and Terry Pratchett writing a book together. Now imagine the depths of the unconscious dressed in the camouflage of humor. Join Forenk, the unlucky son of pig farmers, as he leaves home, an outcast, to find and uncover his destiny as the last mortal demigod capable of fathering divine beings. Along the way he meets his guardians and... [click here for more]
Langobert Galbaio, a legate of Trade Congregation, merchant republic, receives a new assignment. But is this task a prize... or a penance? ... [click here for more]
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