Popular European Folklore Books

Find folklore books written by authors from Europe for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (19)

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Aesop's Fables by Aesop EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Greece flag Greece
Description:
A collection of familiar short moral tales.

2.

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg by Dubravka Ugrešić EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Croatia flag Croatia
Description:
"Baba Yaga Laid an Egg takes a traditional myth and spins it afresh. The result is an extraordinary meditation on femininity, aging, identity, secrets and love." -- taken from jacket front flap.

3.

Beowulf by Unknown EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Description:
Beowulf is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films ... continue

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Bingo's Run by James A. Levine EN

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Description:
A tale set against the backdrop of Kenya's poverty-stricken slums and luxury resorts follows the experiences of a young drug runner who makes deliveries to a reclusive artist before his witness of murder leads to his adoption by a woman who tests his sense of morality.

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Der blinde Masseur : Roman by Catalin Dorian Florescu DE

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
a philosophical book about a man returning from Switzerland to his home country Romania. A book about lies, trust, love and friendship set in the early 2000s.


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Pleasantview by Celeste Mohammed EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Description:
Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and coke. To many outsiders, these and other sunny images are all they know about life in the Caribbean. However, if you want to learn how the locals truly live and experience the dark and often harrowing truths that lurk behind the idyllic imagery of Caribbean culture, then come visit the town of Pleasantview. Come during election season, and see how one candidate sets out to slaughter endangered turtles - just for fun. Or come on the day the other candidate beats his "outside-woman," so badly she ends up losing their baby. Then come on the night of the political ... continue


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Stork Mountain : A Novel by Miroslav Penkov EN

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Country: Europe / Bulgaria flag Bulgaria
Description:
"A young Bulgarian immigrant returns to the country of his birth in search of his grandfather, who suddenly and unexpectedly cut all contact with the family three years ago. The trail leads him to a village on the border with Turkey, a stone's throw away from Greece, high up in the Strandja Mountains--a place of pagan mysteries and black storks nesting in giant oaks; a place where every spring, possessed by Christian saints, men and women dance barefoot across live coals in search of rebirth. Here in the mountains, he gets drawn by his grandfather into a maze of half-truths"--Amazon.com.