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The Book of the Epic: the World's great Epics told in Story

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The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story

This book offers principal examples of the time-honoured stories which have inspired our greatest poets and supplied endless material to painters, sculptors, and musicians ever since art began.

It contains epics from across Europe, Arabian and Percian epics, epics from Ancient Greece and Rome, Hebrew and early Christian epics and Asian poetry and epics from America, such as The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Divine Comedy, the Arthurian Cycle, Robin Hood, the Story of the Holy Grail and the Song of Hiawatha.

632 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1909

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Hélène A. Guerber

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Hélène Adeline Guerber (1859 – 1929), better known as H.A. Guerber, was a British historian most well known for her written histories of Germanic mythology.

Her most well known work is Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas - George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1908 in London.

Other histories by Guerber include Legends of the Rhine (A.S. Barnes & Co., New York, 1895; new edition 1905), Stories of the Wagner Opera, The Book of the Epic, The Story of the Ancient World, The Story of the Greeks, The Story of the Romans, Legends of the Middle Ages, The Story of the Renaissance and Reformation, The Story of the Thirteen Colonies, and The Story of the Great Republic.

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