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Hinilawod is a 29,000-verse epic that takes about three days to chant in its original form, making it one of the longest epics known, alongside that of Tibet's Epic of King Gesar. Hinilawod is one of the many pieces of oral literature passed from one generation to the next, changed and morphed by the chanter to one degree or another as he told ...
The prelude closes with a "tail", which serves to connect it to the main body of the story. [1]: xxiii–xxiv Philippine epics narrate the adventures of the hero in chronological order, many of them beginning with the hero's birth. None begin in medias res like in the Iliad. The epics narrate the hero's life and adventures and end in happy endings.
Biag ni Lam-ang (lit. ' The Life of Lam-ang ') is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines.It is notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded in written form, and was one of only two folk epics documented during the Philippines' Spanish Colonial period, along with the Bicolano epic of Handiong.
Samak-e Ayyar, Samak-e Ayyar is an epic ancient Persian romantic folklore story; Nart saga, includes the stories and mythological epics and folklore of the Iranic Ossetian people; Hamzanama, A long popular Islamic prose epic, which contains more than 45,000 pages in the Urdu language version; Mem and Zin, a Kurdish folk and love epic
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Island is a book of short stories by Alistair MacLeod, first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart. [1]The book collects all of the short stories published in MacLeod's earlier collections, The Lost Salt Gift of Blood and As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories, as well as two previously unpublished stories, "Island" and "Clearances".
The story, told in epistolary format consisting entirely of letters, memos and correspondence, is about an editor in a paperback publishing house who gets a manuscript from what appears to be a crackpot. The manuscript is about magic, but it also contains photographs that seem very real.
South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii , or are set aboard a ship. List of Stories