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Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
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Roberto Calasso · 454 pages
Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or describe this mental world - he regenerates it through its epic cyclical stories and customs, until we no longer need to define it for ourselves because we have come to know what it is. So: Who is Ka? And who is the immense eagle asking the question, filling the sky,
The Immortals of Meluha
Amish Tripathi · 417 pages
1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha – a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction.
Ramayana: Divine Loophole
Sanjay Patel · 184 pages
Artist and veteran Pixar animator Sanjay Patel lends a lush, whimsical illustration style and lighthearted voice to one of Hindu mythology's best-loved and most enduring tales. Teeming with powerful deities, love-struck monsters, flying monkey gods, magic weapons, demon armies, and divine love, Ramayana tells the story of Rama, a god-turned-prince, and his quest to rescue his wife Sita after she i
Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished
Anand Neelakantan · 504 pages
The story of the Ramayana has been told countless times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the King of Wrath, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors, that lives on. But what if Ravana and his people had a different story to tell? Asura is the epic narrative of the vanquished Asura people, a st
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
R.K. Narayan · 171 pages
A retelling of the Tamil epic poem which records Prince Rama's search for his abducted sweetheart, Sita.
The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 372 pages
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of the wife of an amazing woman.Relevant to today's war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancien
Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior-Prince
Anuja Chandramouli · 364 pages
Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi
Pratibha Ray · 402 pages
Epistolary novel about Draupadī, Hindu mythological character from the Mahābhārata.
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
Ingri d'Aulaire, Edgar Parin d'Aulaire · 192 pages
A re-telling of the myths of ancient Greece for children.
Yayati: A Classic Tale of Lust
Vishnu Sakharam Khandekar · 256 pages
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
Valmiki, Ramesh Menon · 539 pages
Toads and Diamonds
Heather Tomlinson · 288 pages
A retelling of the Perrault fairy tale set in pre-colonial India, in which two stepsisters receive gifts from a goddess and each walks her own path to find her gift's purpose, discovering romance along the way.
Arrow to the Sun
Gerald McDermott · 38 pages
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
The Transposed Heads: A Legend of India
Thomas Mann · 143 pages
An ancient Indian fable of the time when men and gods talked together.
Black Ships Before Troy
Rosemary Sutcliff · 128 pages
Retells the story of the Trojan War, from the quarrel for the golden apple, and the flight of Helen with Paris, to the destruction of Troy.
Dream Country
Neil Gaiman · 160 pages
Presents four Sandman stories, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which Shakespeare's company, at the instigation of the Lord of Dreams, gives an open-air performance of the play to an audience of fairies.
The White Stag
Kate Seredy · 94 pages
For generations the tribes of Huns and Magyars had moved relentlessly westward, obeying the voices of their pagan gods, which compelled them to follow the elusive white stag to their promised homeland. They swept Europe, all the while pursuing their vision of the stag. Their leader was called Attila, and the land Hungary. Here is the epic story of their tribal migration and their fierce leader - k
Till We Have Faces
C.S. Lewis · 320 pages
C.S. Lewis once described Till We Have Faces as his best work. It is a retelling of the Psyche myth with a subtle Christian bent. One of my professors, Dr. Jim Hand, once posed the question, "Is Psyche a case of spirit becoming flesh, or flesh becoming spirit?" It is a great novel with much depth.
Lord of Light
Roger Zelazny · 261 pages
A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship that brought them to their new home 1000 years before. They have taken control of ancient technologies and enhanced themselves with godlike psychic powers and virtual immortality. Adopting the panoply of the venerable Hindu religion, they live lives as its Gods, surrounded by advanced technology within the trappin