The Tapestry of the Gods: 16 Exceptional Mythological Novels
Sixteen Timeless Tales of Gods, Heroes, Sagas, Folklore, and Early FantasyBy Harold F. Hughes, Rowland Thomas, Lucy Winifred Faraday, Euripides, Robert Ervin Howard, Marah Ellis Ryan, Louis Couperus, Emilie K. Baker, Padraic Colum, Mara L. Pratt-Chadwick, Mary Catherine Judd, E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
Length77h 41m
About this audiobook
The Tapestry of the Gods: 16 Exceptional Mythological Novels gathers classical legend, heroic romance, speculative fantasy, and instructive retelling into a capacious survey of myth's literary afterlives. Its selections move between the grave architecture of ancient tragedy and the vivid narrative freedoms of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century popular fiction. Tales of Olympian power, questing heroes, doomed passion, and encounters between mortals and the divine reveal myth as both inherited cultural memory and endlessly adaptable imaginative material. The volume's strongest contrasts arise from its juxtaposition of dramatic intensity, lyrical wonder, historical reconstruction, and adventure-driven storytelling. The contributors span antiquity through the modern revival of mythic fiction, bringing together a Greek dramatic tradition with Anglophone, European, Irish, and American writers attentive to folklore, classical learning, romance, and children's literature. Their collective work participates in the long reception of Greco-Roman myth while also reflecting Romanticism's fascination with legend, Victorian pedagogical retellings, and the early fantasy tradition's appetite for strange worlds and heroic scale. These differing cultural and formal positions make mythology appear not static, but continually remade for new readers. Recommended for students, teachers, and lovers of imaginative literature, this anthology offers an unusually rich opportunity to compare how shared myths change across genres and eras. It rewards close reading with historical insight, stylistic variety, and a sustained dialogue among competing visions of gods and humanity.
Audiobook details
GenreFairy Tales and Folklore, Fantasy
Length77 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths
26XVIII.
2PART I THE DWELLERS IN ASGARD
27XIX.
3SIF'S GOLDEN HAIR: HOW LOKI WROUGHT MISCHIEF IN ASGARD
28XX.
4PART II
29VALKYRIES’ SONG.
5ODIN TELLS TO VIDAR, HIS SILENT SON, THE SECRET OF HIS DOINGS
30XXI.
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6THE DWARF'S HOARD, AND THE CURSE THAT IT BROUGHT
31XXII.
7THE VALKYRIE
32XXIII.
8THE SWORD GRAM AND THE DRAGON FAFNIR
33VOCABULARY.
9THE STORY OF THE VENGEANCE OF THE VOLSUNGS AND OF THE DEATH OF SINFIOTLI
34Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas
10Legends of Norseland
35Told by the Northmen: Stories from the Eddas and Sagas
11LEGENDS OF NORSELAND.
36TOLD BY THE NORTHMEN:
12II.
37Chapter III
13III.
38Chapter VIII
14IV.
39Chapter XI
15V.
40Chapter XIII
16VI.
41Chapter XVII
17VII.
42Chapter XXI
18VIII.
43Chapter XXV
19XI.
44The Destruction of Dá Derga's Hostel
20XII.
45Translator’s Notes
21XIII.
46Legendary Heroes of Ireland
22XIV.
47MYTHOLOGY OF IRELAND
23XV.
48THE FENIANS
24XVI.
49THE BIRTH OF FINN
25XVII.
50FINN’S BOYHOOD
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