Stories and literature

Browse story summaries, literary works and mythology. Each article identifies its source or version where available.

Stories and myths

• Pied Piper
• The Sleeping Beauty
• Beowulf
• St George and The Dragon
• Beauty and The Beast
• Peter Pan
• Mahabharata
• Theseus and the Minotaur
• Sisyphus
• Rapunzel
• Hansel and Gretel
• Bluebeard
• The Company of Wolves
• Paperhouse
• Moby Dick
• Frankenstein
• Dracula
• Faust and The Deal with The Devil
• The Golem

Collections

• The Canterbury Tales - an introduction and links to the individual tales

Cultural patterns and related reading

• The Muse
• Scapegoat
• Apocalypse
• Babies in Baskets Floating Down Rivers
• Pachisi
• The Ontological Argument
• The Egyptian Archetypes in The Wizard of Oz
• Chess
• Atlantis

Reading and interpretation

• Narrative and Interpretation - narrator, audience, the order of disclosure and different ways of reading character
• Metaphor in Literature and Creativity - figurative language in context and research on readers' responses
• The Hero's Journey - a comparative framework and its limits
• Metaphor Research Library - free books, research and historical texts

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