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A Tale of Four Dervishes by Mir Amman, translated by Mohammed Zakir. A classic of early Urdu literature, in which three princes and a rich merchant renounce the world on account of their disappointment in love, and become wandering dervishes. Their journeys introduce them to characters more unfortunate than themselves, each with a fantastic tale to tell
African Folktales by Roger D. Abrahams
Aeneid by Virgil (30 B.C.E.)
Arabian Nights by anonymous authors
Egyptian Book of the Dead (1600 B.C.E.)
Enuma Elish, a Babylonian creation myth (1800 B.C.E.)
Epic of Gilgamish, the earliest Mesopotamian sacred epic (2500 B.C.E.)
Fables by Aesop (640 B.C.E.). Aesop, a former slave, wrote 358 fables full of humour, wit, and descriptions of everyday life. Most of his tales were based on Indian legends
Fables by Jean de la Fontaine. Mostly inspired from Aesop's fables
Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson
Hitopadesha
Illiad by Homer (750 B.C.E.)
Jataka Tales (350 B.C.E.). Tales of the Buddha's former births.
Kathasaritsagara
Le Morte d'Arthur by Thomas Mallory
Metamorphosis by Ovid
Nibelungenlied (c. 5th century) C.E.?)
Odyssey by Homer (750 B.C.E.)
Panchatantra. A textbook on the right conduct of life in the form of animal fables
Parzifal by Wolfram von Eschenbach Perceval, or the Knight of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes (an unfinished novel). See The High History of the Holy Graal
Popol Vuh (200 C.E.), Mayan mythology
Sandabar's Parables by Sandabar
Sufi Tales, compiled by Idries Shah
Tales about Bilhana, the jester
Tales about Birbal, the witty minister of the Mughal Emperor Akbar (mid-16th century)
Tales about Gopal Bhar, the jester from Bengal
Tales about Mariada Raman, the jester
Tales about Mullah Nasruddin, a.k.a. Nasreddin Hodja, Ch'ha, Joha, Toto, Malek, etc. (legendary fool-sage from the Middle East, claimed by at least three countries: Afghanistan, Turkey and Iran). Compiled by Idries Shah
Tales about Tennalirama, the favorite jester of King Krishnadeva Raya
Tales of the Hasidim by Martin Buber
The Golem by Rabbi Yehuda Lowe (16th century)
The High History of the Holy Graal by an anonymous author: a continuation of the unfinished Perceval, or the Knight of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes
The Magic Drum by W. F. P. Burton. A selection of Central African tales
The Other Wise Man by Henry Van Dyke
The Sacred Flame and other tales by Selma Lagerlof (20th century)
Theogony by Hesiod (730 B.C.E.)
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