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  • Myths and Legends of China

    The Gods and Spirits of Chinese Tradition

    by E. T. C. Werner ...
    Complete and unabridged, with 27 full-page plates by Wang Hui, Chen Hongshou and Zhou Lianggong. The Chinese pantheon set out in order - the gods of thunder, of the walls and ditches, of literature and the hearth - with the stories that go with them. Werner spent decades in the Chinese consular service and worked from Chinese sources rather than from other Europeans. This edition adds a gallery of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths and Legends of China (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Study of Chinese Folklore

    by E. T. C. Werner, Faye Roswell ...
    Myths and Legends of China is a capacious early-twentieth-century survey of Chinese cosmology, divine hierarchies, heroic tales, popular superstition, and religious folklore. Werner gathers creation myths, stories of culture heroes, dragon lore, immortals, ghosts, and temple deities into a prose style that is lucid, cataloguing, and comparativist. The book belongs to a formative period of English ... Read more

    Was $2.99 CAD Now $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scotichronicon

    Volume 4 Books VII-VIII: New edition in Latin and English with notes and indexes

    by Walter Bower ...
    Series series Scotichronicon
    Writing on a small island in the Firth of Forth in the 1440s, Walter Bower set out to tell the whole story of the Scottish nation in a single huge book, the Scotichronicon--'a history book for Scots'. It begins with the mythical voyage of Scota, the Pharaoh's daughter, from Egypt with the Stone of Destiny. The land that her sons discovered in the Western Ocean was named after her: Scotland. It ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best Russian Short Stories

    by Leonid Andreyev et al.; Chekov, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, etc. ...
    Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple delights of Russian literature. French and English and German authors, too, occasionally, offer ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths & Legends of China

    by ETC Werner, GP Editors ...
    In this fascinating and comprehensive collection of Chinese myths and legends, E. T. C. Werner drew upon material readily available to him as a member of the Chinese government's' Historiographical Bureau in Peking. A former barrister and British consul in Foochow, Werner presents a wealth of information illuminating the ideas and beliefs that governed the daily lives of the Chinese people long ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 4

    by Emily Bullock, Laura Windley, Laura Lewis etc ...
    Original, exciting and innovative writing abounds in this collection of 20 irresistible short stories. Selected from more than 2,000 entries for the 2011 Bristol Short Story Prize ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Bristol Short Story Prize Anthology Volume 3

    by Valerie O'Riordan, Ian Madden, Rachel Howard, etc. ...
    These outstanding stories from the 2010 Bristol Short Story Prize will provoke, stimulate, move, amuse, unsettle, and entertain ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Tao Te Ching & Taoism For Beginners – World’s Best Collection

    Taoist Expert Translations and Explanations For Beginners to Advanced Levels For Easy Understanding Of The Dao De Jing

    by Lao Tzu, ETC Werner ...
    Translated by Dwight Goddard, Henri Borel, Frederic Balfour, Paul Carus, James Legge ...
    Tao Te Ching World's Best CollectionThis is the best Tao Te Ching Collection available, including the most important and famous translations, interpretations and writings about the Tao, desitned to help you achieve the strength and calming power of the Tao Te Ching; to help you achieve a stress free life, feel in control and empowered – to help you achieve all that the Tao has helped millions do ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths and Legends of China

    by E. T. C. Werner ...
    In the text, Werner elucidates various aspects of Chinese mythology, including creation myths, legendary heroes, mythical creatures, and religious beliefs. Drawing from a wide range of Chinese literary sources, historical texts, and oral traditions, the author presents a detailed and engaging portrayal of the mythological landscape of China."Myths and Legends of China" offers readers a glimpse ... Read more

    $1.33 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Surrender

    by E. T. C. Werner ...
    The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths and Legends of China

    by E. T. C. Werner ...
    Myths and Legends of China' is a collection of mythical stories of China by E. T. C. Werner, who was a noted British diplomat in Qing Dynasty China and sinologist specialising in superstition, myths and magic. This unique and important collection of stories was first published in the year 1915. ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Myths and Legends of China

    by E. T. C. Werner ...
    For administrative purposes there were at the seat of central government (which, first at P’ing-yang—in modern Shansi—was moved eleven times during the Feudal Period, and was finally at Yin) ministers, or ministers and a hierarchy of officials, the country being divided into provinces, varying in number from nine in the earliest times to thirty-six under the First Emperor, 221 B.C., and finally ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD