Lang complemented each myth with poetry by other authors who, like her, were inspired by these ancient stories of the gods. Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes tell it, is actually there, so, down through the ages, men have stretched out their hands in eager endeavour to know their god. Page 159 there is an universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object, those qualities, with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious. This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. If you take the rhyme of mary and her little lamb, and call mary the sun and the lamb the moon, you will achieve astonishing. Final warning, this book isnt for the squeamish and contains graphic violence at times. Yet did he prefer to endure his agonies rather than to free himself by bowing to. They are accurate, easy to understand, and beautifully illustrated. Rather is the book intended for those who, in the course of their reading, frequently come across names which possess for them no meaning, and who care to read some old stories, through. Mar 08, 2018 stories of the border marches, with john lang some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the united states because they were published before january 1, 1925. Its one of those genres where anyone who has ever strung together two sentences think that they are qualified to write a book.
White this is a collection of mythsmostly greek with a smattering of others from the eastwritten in a clear and easytoread style. The author died in 1932, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the term is the authors life plus 80 years or less. I liked a lot of the poems inserted to the various myths. Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Its hard to imagine that this book of myths is just a book with some old myths in it. First published in 1914, jean langs a book of myths is a foundational work of modern anthropology covering in breathless style a pantheon of western mythological figures, ranging from ancient greece to medieval scandinavia. With everyone cooped up during this coronavirus outbreak, i thought now would be a good time to offer my two novels splashdown. When icarus was compared to the young people in the beginning of the history of aeroplanes, i fell in love. Just as a little child holds out its hands to catch the sunbeams, to feel and to grasp what, so its eyes. White this is a collection of myths mostly greek with a smattering of others from the eastwritten in a clear and easytoread style. This is a collection of mythsmostly greek with a smattering of others from the eastwritten in a clear and easytoread style. Jean lang 18671932 is the author of a book of myths. A book of myths by jean lang free ebook project gutenberg. In a relaxed, easily readable style, lang retells the big familiar stories and several lesserknown ones.
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