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Myths and legends featuring big and bloody battles include such stories as "The Minotaur," "The Great Bell of Peking," and "Romulus and Remus," as well as Celtic and American Indian tales.Tags
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Revised from an 1980s book, Horowitz tells 4 stories of legends from around the world with humour and gore abounding. I particualrly liked the twist at the end of "Given to the Sun" the Inca legend and kicked myself that I should have seen it coming! There's a bit of "oohh yuck" with regards to how the Minotaur was created - Queen Pasiphae's union with a bull! - but apart from that cringe-worthy moment, the stories are very good.
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Author and television scriptwriter Anthony Horowitz was born in Stanmore, England on April 5, 1956. At the age of eight, he was sent to a boarding school in London. He graduated from the University of York and published his first book, Enter Frederick K. Bower (1979), when he was 23. He writes mostly children's books, including the Alex Rider show more series, The Power of Five series, and the Diamond Brothers series. The Alex Rider series is about a 14-year-old boy becoming a spy and was made into a movie entitled Stormbreaker. He has won numerous awards including the 1989 Lancashire Children's Book of the Year Award for Groosham Grange and the 2003 Red House Children's Book Award for Skeleton Key. He also writes novels for adults including The Killing Joke and The Magpie Murders. He has created Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders for television as well as written episodes for Poirot and Murder Most Horrid. He made The New York Times Best Seller list with his titles The House of Silk Russian Roulette: The Story of an Assassin and Moriarity.Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 2010
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 398.2 — Society, Government, and Culture Customs, etiquette & folklore Folklore & Folktales Folk literature
- LCC
- BL312 .H66 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Religions. Mythology. Rationalism Religions. Mythology. Rationalism The myth. Comparative mythology
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- Reviews
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- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 15
- ASINs
- 5
