![]() | The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures: The Ultimate A-Z of Fantastic Beings from Myth and Magic by John Matthews
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £9.50 comprehensive guide to all kinds of mythical creatures
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![]() | Holy Bible by -
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.96 Important reading to understand many myths, also rich in symbolisim and fantastic imagry very useful for art students
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![]() | The Metamorphoses: a New Verse Translation (Penguin Classics) by Ovid
Buy new: £6.69 / Used from: £1.49 A wonderfully writen poem of pretty much all roman and greek myths, which deals with the crux of many myths - metamorphosis.
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![]() | Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (Clarendon Lectures in English) by Marina Warner
Buy new: £16.99 / Used from: £10.20 A collection of essays concerning metamorphosis
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![]() | The Metamorphosis (Dover Thrift) by Franz Kafka
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01 Metamorphosis has been used as a tool in myths throughout the ages because of its ability to explore relevant issues and messages, if your interested in the subject definately read this!
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![]() | The Complete Book of Devils and Demons by Leonard R.N. Ashley
Buy used from: £101.95 An interesting, well researched book not just on demons but other mythical creatures
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![]() | The Classic Fairy Tales (Norton Critical Editions) by M Tatar
Buy new: £10.44 / Used from: £8.45 has various sources for tales, which makes it a more infromed read
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![]() | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.25 Carter's retellings of mythical subject matter are beautifully writen and incredibly interesting
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![]() | Six Myths of Our Time: Vintage Books Edition: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More by Marina Warner
Buy new: £12.00 / Used from: £3.80 An interesting and poignant collection of essays concerning the relevance of a variety of myths on issues today
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![]() | The Odyssey (Penguin Classics) by Homer
Buy new: £4.29 / Used from: £2.36 classic tale of Odysseus trying journey home; shipwrecks, battles, monsters and gods
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![]() | One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections) by Geraldine McCaughrean
Buy new: £2.99 / Used from: £4.38 collection of exotic tales, some you'll know others mabey not but its nice reading them all together
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![]() | The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World's Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
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![]() | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.10 Milton's take on the all things good and evil, a must!
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![]() | Dore's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost" (Dover Pictorial Archive) by Gustave Dore
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £6.00 if you're looking for illustrations that really sick to the story and capture the magic and intensity then these will captivate you too.
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![]() | Nursery rhymes by Paula Rego
Buy used from: £9.00 Rego's etchings are wonderful in their reinterpretations of nursery rhymes
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![]() | William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books by David Bindman
Buy used from: £241.78 the complete collection of Blake's illuminated works presented beautifully and clearly.
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![]() | The Pre-Raphaelites by Christopher Wood
Buy new: £14.99 / Used from: £8.48 looking to medievalism for inspiration, many of their works deal with mythical subject matter and therefore have a moral tone.
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![]() | The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Penguin Psychology) by Bruno Bettelheim
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![]() | Good Faeries/Bad Faeries by Brian Froud
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £34.37 |
![]() | Northern Lights: Adult Edition (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Pulman focuses mainly weaving the Eden myth into his trilogy but there really is so much he revaluates and reinvigorates
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![]() | The Magic of Recluce (Saga of Recluce) by L.E. Modesitt Jr
Buy used from: £0.32 Modesitt focuses mainly on the edanic myth, theres some very rich undertones here
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![]() | Good Omens (Discworld) by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.25 Gaiman and Pratchett are often very profound in their writtings, I loved this witty re-invention of Revelations.
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![]() | The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes (The Sandman) by Neil Gaiman
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £7.00 I'll quote from the synopsis as I think it defines this brilliant work just right 'It blends modern myth and dark fantasy, into which historical drama, contemporary fiction and legend are interwoven.'
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![]() | Lords and Ladies (Discworld Novel) by Terry Pratchett
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.66 Pratchett's presentation of elves - brilliant and his interpretation of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream - funny as anything
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![]() | Beauty by Robin McKinley
Buy new: £4.49 / Used from: £0.04 A wonderful re-telling of beauty and the beast
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