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The Power of Myth
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4.26 avg rating — 53,681 ratings
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Women Who Run With the Wolves
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4.11 avg rating — 95,223 ratings
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From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
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4.12 avg rating — 1,472 ratings
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The Classic Fairy Tales
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4.27 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
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4.20 avg rating — 290 ratings
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Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale
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3.88 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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4.13 avg rating — 44,912 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy
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4.39 avg rating — 345 ratings
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The Greek Myths: Complete Edition
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4.15 avg rating — 7,679 ratings
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Tree and Leaf: Includes Mythopoeia and The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
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4.12 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
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The Owl, The Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
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4.29 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
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3.80 avg rating — 530 ratings
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The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends
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4.20 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Tolkien On Fairy-stories
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4.32 avg rating — 4,765 ratings
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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
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3.93 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Feminine in Fairy Tales
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4.28 avg rating — 855 ratings
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The Fairies in English Tradition and Literature
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4.13 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Morphology of the Folktale
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4.01 avg rating — 2,180 ratings
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The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition (C. G. Jung Foundation Books Series)
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4.16 avg rating — 1,232 ratings
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Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies, & Other Supernatural Creatures
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4.26 avg rating — 1,257 ratings
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The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre
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3.82 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created a New Mythology
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3.95 avg rating — 6,132 ratings
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Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
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4.31 avg rating — 857 ratings
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Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
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3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Gods of the Greeks
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4.11 avg rating — 595 ratings
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One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L'Engle, Orson Scott Card
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
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4.08 avg rating — 2,163 ratings
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Living the Personal Myth: Making the Magic of Faerie Real in One's Own Life
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4.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Dharma of Dragons and Daemons: Buddhist Themes in Modern Fantasy
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3.69 avg rating — 55 ratings
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T.H. White's The Once and Future King (Arthurian Studies, 30)
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4.02 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper
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4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings
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The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine in Man
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4.38 avg rating — 136 ratings
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The Moon and the Virgin: Reflections on the Archetypal Feminine
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4.07 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction, and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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3.55 avg rating — 77 ratings
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From Girl to Goddess: The Heroine's Journey Through Myth and Legend
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3.93 avg rating — 122 ratings
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The Lore of the Unicorn
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3.75 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Goddesses of Sun and Moon (Circe/Aphrodite/Medea/Niobe) (Dunquin Series)
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3.81 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Personnel of Fairyland: A Short Account of the Fairy People of Great Britain for Those Who Tell Stories to Children
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3.69 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Rhetorics of Fantasy
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3.82 avg rating — 352 ratings
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Writing Down the Dragon: and Other Essays on the Tolkien Method and the Craft of Fantasy
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4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
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3.86 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
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4.07 avg rating — 394 ratings
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Beauty and the Beast: Visions and Revisions of an Old Tale
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3.91 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
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3.91 avg rating — 713 ratings
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The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
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3.97 avg rating — 1,823 ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century
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3.88 avg rating — 5,677 ratings
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Jack the Ripper and Black Magic: Victorian Conspiracy Theories, Secret Societies and the Supernatural Mystique of the Whitechapel Murders
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3.70 avg rating — 93 ratings
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The Morrigan: Raven Heart
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3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Werewolf Book: The Encyclopedia Of Shape-Shifting Beings
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3.82 avg rating — 477 ratings
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From the Forest: A Search for the Hidden Roots of our Fairytales
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3.59 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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A-Ma Alchemy of Love (AoL Mindfulness, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Green Man: The Archetype of Our Oneness with the Earth
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3.95 avg rating — 112 ratings
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The Flame Imperishable: Tolkien, St. Thomas, and the Metaphysics of Faërie
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4.40 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
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4.25 avg rating — 495 ratings
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The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters
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4.09 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon
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4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Short History of Myth
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3.69 avg rating — 6,490 ratings
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Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion
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4.23 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A-Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic
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4.14 avg rating — 5,992 ratings
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Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers
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3.69 avg rating — 842 ratings
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West
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4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Eternal Drama: The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology
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4.08 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Robin Hood
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3.71 avg rating — 297 ratings
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Kuan Yin: Myths and Revelations of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion: The Prophecies of the Goddess of Mercy
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4.13 avg rating — 141 ratings
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I Am Providence: The Life and Times of H.P. Lovecraft
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4.39 avg rating — 299 ratings
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Lord Dunsany: Master of the Anglo-Irish Imagination
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3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Heroes of the Greeks
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4.03 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Majesty and Magic in Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach to Cymbeline, Henry VIII and the Tempest
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4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The Quest for Merlin
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3.83 avg rating — 185 ratings
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Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence
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4.12 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales
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4.06 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Christian Imagination: G.K. Chesterton on the Arts
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4.20 avg rating — 49 ratings
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The Discovery of King Arthur
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3.80 avg rating — 611 ratings
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Essays on a Science of Mythology
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4.04 avg rating — 272 ratings
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The Goddesses' Mirror: Visions of the Divine from East and West
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3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Good and Evil In Myth and Legend
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3.59 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Guinevere
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3.58 avg rating — 125 ratings
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Heroines: Demigoddess, Prima Donna, Movie Star
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Language Of The Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
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4.28 avg rating — 2,196 ratings
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The Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World
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3.91 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Don't Tell the Grown-Ups: The Subversive Power of Children's Literature
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3.72 avg rating — 369 ratings
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Meditations on Middle-Earth
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3.84 avg rating — 3,142 ratings
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No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
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4.02 avg rating — 258 ratings
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Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 279 ratings
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Maps and Legends: Reading and Writing Along the Borderlands
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3.69 avg rating — 4,288 ratings
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
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3.71 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
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Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
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3.87 avg rating — 145 ratings
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Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space
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4.07 avg rating — 5,955 ratings
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Appendix N
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3.61 avg rating — 176 ratings
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The Neurobiology of the Gods: How Brain Physiology Shapes the Recurrent Imagery of Myth and Dreams
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4.22 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Lament of Prometheus: An Examination of David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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From Barsoom to Malacandra: Musings on Things Past and Things to Come
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4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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On Fairy-Stories
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4.09 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Transhuman and Subhuman: Essays on Science Fiction and Awful Truth
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3.80 avg rating — 168 ratings
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Trolls: An Unnatural History
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3.74 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth
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4.31 avg rating — 554 ratings
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Islam, Arabs, and Intelligent World of the Jinn
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4.04 avg rating — 161 ratings
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Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
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4.08 avg rating — 240 ratings
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