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id: 23749
author: Herford, Oliver
title: The Mythological Zoo
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words: 2053
sentence: 118
flesch: 84
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summary:
  The horse was sure to cast his vote Unswervingly for _table d'OAT_. Though having neither gills nor scales, His title _should be_ Prince of Whales.


id: 7841
author: Smythe, E. Louise (Emma Louise)
title: A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children
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words: 8471
sentence: 1000
flesch: 104
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summary:
  * * * fold sail afraid sorry each ring shining faster gave All the gods felt very sorry for little Brok. The dwarfs were ugly little black men.


id: 30800
author: Cooke, Flora J. (Flora Juliette)
title: Nature Myths and Stories for Little Children
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words: 16524
sentence: 1201
flesch: 95
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summary:
  For many days and nights he bravely took care of his father and kept the fire burning. When the sun had shone upon it many days and dried and hardened it, people called it pudding stone.


id: 6447
author: Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
title: Proserpine and Midas
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words: 17674
sentence: 1257
flesch: 85
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summary:
  The Garden of Proserpine_, 1866; _ The parallel would be more illuminating--and the final award passed on Mrs. Shelley's attempt more favourable--if we were to think of a contemporary production like 'Barry Cornwall's' _Rape of Proserpine_, which, being published in 1820, it is just possible that the Shelleys should have known.


id: 17964
author: Bangs, John Kendrick
title: Olympian Nights
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words: 32496
sentence: 1971
flesch: 84
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summary:
  Said he'd like to try Apollo and a Muse or two, for a little while, and preferred Cupids on toast for Sunday-night tea. Said Prometheus was a very interesting man, but as a diet he was monotonous and demanded a more diversified _menu_.


id: 44460
title: Carleton's Condensed Classical Dictionary
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words: 49200
sentence: 3037
flesch: 75
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summary:
  =A.B.=, Bachelor of Arts. =A.D.= (L. _anno Domini_), in the year of our Lord. =A.M.= (L. _ante meridiem_), before noon.


id: 35704
author: Bailey, Carolyn Sherwin
title: Wonder Stories: The Best Myths for Boys and Girls
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words: 63574
sentence: 2979
flesch: 84
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summary:
  We would like to be the guardians of your temple, great Jupiter. Mars was a very ruthless kind of god.


id: 976
author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
title: Tanglewood Tales
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words: 66201
sentence: 2638
flesch: 78
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summary:
  Little children, not quite understanding what is said to them, often get such absurd notions into their heads, you know. But, from his earliest remembrance, Aethra used to go with little Theseus into a wood, and sit down upon a moss-grown rock, which was deeply sunken into the earth.


id: 30332
author: Morris, William
title: The Earthly Paradise: A Poem (Part II)
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words: 71570
sentence: 1917
flesch: 73
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summary:
  Purblind are most of folk, The happy are the masters of the earth Which ever give small heed to hapless worth; So goes the world, and this we needs must bear Like eld and death: yet there were some men there Who drank in silence to the memory Of those who failed on earth great men to be, Though better than the men who won the crown. So in few days what man shall know The needy Scholar, seeing me Great in the place where great men be, The richest man in all the land? Beside the best then shall I stand, And some unheard-of palace have; And if my soul I may not save In heaven, yet here in all men's eyes Will I make some sweet paradise, With marble cloisters, and with trees And bubbling wells, and fantasies,


id: 41765
title: Half a Hundred Hero Tales of Ulysses and The Men of Old
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words: 111372
sentence: 4905
flesch: 82
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  The maidens looked at his massive club, and at the shaggy lion's skin which he wore, and likewise at his heroic limbs and figure; and they whispered to each other that the stranger appeared to be one who might reasonably expect to perform deeds far beyond the might of other men. Pirates, doubtless, who peril your own lives to rob other men! Nay, answered Ulysses, who of all the trembling band alone found voice to speak.


id: 22381
author: Berens, E. M.
title: Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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words: 108047
sentence: 3841
flesch: 63
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summary:
  As we have already seen in the Legend of Heracles, that great hero conquered Troy, and after killing king Laomedon, carried away captive his beautiful daughter Hesione, whom he bestowed in marriage on his friend Telamon. Many great heroes were descended from Perseus and Andromeda, foremost among whom was Heracles, whose mother, Alcmene, was their granddaughter.


id: 3327
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
title: Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable
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words: 146923
sentence: 6764
flesch: 77
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  They were directed where to seek him, and soon found him in a verdant valley, where he was contemplating the ranks of his posterity, their destinies and worthy deeds to be achieved in coming times. While the majority of the Brahmans still profess to recognize the equal divinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, the mass of the people worship Krishna, Rama, the Singam, and many other gods and idols.


id: 46063
author: Bulfinch, Thomas
extension: .txt
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words: 228318
sentence: 12772
flesch: 79
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title:
  The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

summary:
  Figures in italics preceded by _C._ refer to sections of the Commentary and incidentally to the corresponding sections in the Text. Figures in italics preceded by _C._ refer to sections of the Commentary and incidentally to the corresponding sections in the Text.


