H. A. GuerberBesprekingen

$112.75 First Edition 1896 Excellent condition,

This was such a fun read. Guerber does a fantastic job in retelling these myths, and they were easy to understand. The way Guerber tells the myths made them fun to read, and I highly recommend this book.

La historia de los 12 siglos desde los primeros asentamientos alrededor de Roma hasta la caida del imperio del oeste en unos 100 capitulos muy cortos.

Aunque parezca increible menciona casi a todos los emperadores. Y aunque es un poco arbitrario en cuanto a que eventos darle mas peso, dado todo lo que paso en ese tiempo es inevitable.

Es un libro escribo para niños y con muy claro caracter moralista pero aun asi, es una fuente increible de informacion y un magnifico resumen.

Un video para niños sobre la historia de las 13 colonias britanicas en America y la guerra de independencia de estados unidos.

La historia de las colonias es interesante pero la mitad del libro se dedica a la guerra de independencia con muchos nombres de lugares y personas lo que lo hace bastante pesado.

a well written and informative book

A book full of tales of the Norse gods, goddesses and more. It's a great book for people first learning about Norse Mythology. Has a few things missing or some things aren't clear but it's an overall great book about the Norse tales.

I'm not a scholar of Norse Mythology but I loved this book. A lot of the information is the same as what I've gotten from the Prose and Poetic Eddas, with a few exceptions. It's important to remember that the original printing of this book was for 1909 and some things have probably been proven untrue or dismissed in that time, but I found 95% of it to be an accurate and well written account (so far as my own knowledge goes).

Aside from the text, the book is GORGEOUS. It's faux leather hard cover with gold embossing, a ribbon bookmark, gold edged pages and is full of black and white art. It's the most beautiful book I own.

5/5 would buy again.

I'm not a scholar of Norse Mythology but I loved this book. A lot of the information is the same as what I've gotten from the Prose and Poetic Eddas, with a few exceptions. It's important to remember that the original printing of this book was for 1909 and some things have probably been proven untrue or dismissed in that time, but I found 95% of it to be an accurate and well written account (so far as my own knowledge goes).

Aside from the text, the book is GORGEOUS. It's faux leather hard cover with gold embossing, a ribbon bookmark, gold edged pages and is full of black and white art. It's the most beautiful book I own.

5/5 would buy again.

This book is terribly outdated, and skews toward Christianity more often than not, but is a good primer for someone who doesn't know where to start with Norse mythology. It lays out all the gods, discussing their stories and how they connect to one another. It should be taken with a grain of salt, like many other books from this time, and should definitely not be treated as any scholarly source.

I found this book on Project Gutenberg and decided to read it before reading some Icelandic sagas so that I wouldn't be completely lost. For someone who had little knowledge of Norse mythology this was a good book to get an overview of Norse gods and mythology. I have seen some reviews that have stated some facts in this book are not correct but since I am far from an expert on this subject I cannot comment on that. I was pleasantly surprised to get to read about Aslaug and Ragnar Lothbrok as I was not expecting them to be in this book (even the teeny bit that they were). I really enjoyed that the author sprinkled quotes from the sagas throughout this book. One thing that I felt might be interesting to some but was completely unnecessary to me was the comparison of Norse mythology to Greek mythology at the end. Quite frankly it just felt like filler and was boring. I think I would have liked it more if the author would have used the Greek names for the Greek gods instead of the Roman names. Now that I have more knowledge of Norse mythology I am looking forward to reading some Icelandic sagas.½

The late W M S Russell, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Reading, was a modern-day polymath: classicist, sociologist, biologist (he helped formulate the principle of the three Rs of humane animal experimentation: Reduction, Replacement and Refinement), folklorist (former President and Secretary of the Folklore Society), radio quiz panellist (a sometime stalwart of Round Britain Quiz), raconteur, singer, novelist... Well, you get the picture. I was privileged to be a longtime correspondent of his, and while I never had the opportunity to meet up with him in person I knew him from phone conversations to be knowledgeable, personable and friendly. His premature death was a great sadness to me personally and a loss to his many friends and acquaintances generally.

Bill Russell provided a new introduction to this re-issue, one of a series entitled Myth, Legend and Folklore, the result of a collaboration between Wordsworth Editions and The Folklore Society which it is intended will make the archive of the Society more generally accessible than at any time since its beginnings in 1879. This classic narrative of classical mythology, first published in 1908 and written by British academic Hélène Adeline Guerber, was apparently highly regarded in its day. Though not as famous as The Age of Fable, which I remember from my childhood as the first part of Bullfinch’s Mythology, Guerber’s retelling comments on their origins and significance from a later and more scientific viewpoint, as its opening sentence proclaims:
Mythology is the science which treats of the early traditions, or myths, relating to the religion of the ancients, and includes, besides a full account of the origin of their gods, their theory concerning the beginning of all things.

My review copy from 2000 is actually full of Bill’s handwriting, correcting the handful of typographical errors that had slipped through the editing process to appear in the published version, so I am particularly fond of it. Unlike modern academic tomes, there is no extensive bibliography – indeed, none at all, as Guerber's contemporary references are now all well out of date. However, there remains the nineteenth-century penchant for quoting classical and contemporary poetry at appropriate points in the text. For all that the text reads easily enough, with sub-headings to chop up the text in bite-size chunks and a useful index to locate names (though the numerous but bald page references for Heaven, Earth, Love etc are a bit daunting – a bit of cross-referencing would have been more useful).

Every so often someone will lament the passing of an age when to be educated meant being as familiar with the ancient Greek and Roman myths as with your own neighbourhood. For better or worse that is no longer the case but, as with the practice of straitjacketing the English language with the rules of Latin grammar, this knowledge could often constrict the creative imagination. Maybe the passing of time may lead to public re-acquaintance with this ancient matter, resulting in a kind of mini-renaissance.

Or maybe not. Professor Russell’s introduction reminds us nevertheless that classical myths and folk-tales have inspired modern writers in unexpected ways, especially science-fictioneers such as Asimov, Arthur C Clarke, Sprague de Camp and Brian Stableford; one tale-type even provided the name of pioneering rock band The Grateful Dead. And as you yourself read through these various stories, and immerse yourself in tales of boar hunts, and wild hags decapitated by heroes, and kings with animal ears betrayed by barbers, and ships returning with black sails (all classical motifs recurring in, for example, Arthurian legends), you may well begin to wonder if there is anything new under the sun except a change of name and a new context.

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Very eclectic collection of legends from the Rhineland, including heroic stories like Siegfried and minor local traditions, saints legends, ghost stores etc. There are a few from the Low Countries but most are German.

Myths of the Norsemen gives good descriptions of most of the Norse Gods and tells at least one story about each.

Illustrated and contains two Norse sagas. The Sigurd Saga, and The Frithiof Saga.

Just what it says --prose summaries of great epics, mostly standard ones. For me, useful because it has a brief survey of Balkanc poetry though not detailed summaries of those epics.

While the Norse myths are interesting, I can't help but think that this is probably not the best book on the subject. As is fairly common for late 19th and early 20th century scholars--from what I've read at any rate--the author comes across as rather condescending. The introduction, which I assume is by the author, was so pompous I only read a few lines of it before I put the book down and didn't pick it up again for over a year, and even then I skipped the introduction.

An eclectic reader, containing 84 readings on early American history, specifically the thirteen colonies. There are several color maps and many black and white illustrations.½

Dover appears to have secured exclusive exploitation rights for the 19th Century. They're putting them to good use. If the subject matter interests you, this is a great way to learn about it.

A manual for children on growing up, hygiene, and, quite literally, the birds and the bees.

by H A Guerber
Type: Book; French
Publisher: London ; Sydney : George G. Harrap & Co., 1933.
Edition: Australian ed | 3 Editions
OCLC: 220714438
Related Subjects: French language -- Readers -- Folk literature. | Folk literature.