Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 09

Before there were novels, there were these stories. Civilizations gathered fireside to tell of heroes who strode between worlds, of gods who loved and betrayed, of creatures that guarded the boundaries between the known and the unimaginable. This collection gathers myths and legends from cultures spanning continents and millennia, from the thunder-lovers of the Norse to the star-weavers of the East, from African Griots to Celtic bards. These are the original stories, the ones that taught people how to be brave, how to mourn, how to wonder. They are the DNA of human imagination, and they have survived because they spoke something true about what it means to live and die and hope. Here, in one volume, you will find the skeletons of every fantasy novel ever written, the bones upon which all modern storytelling rests. Read this to remember where stories came from.