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Epic Genre
Books in the Epic genre:
The Renowned History of the Seven Champions of Christendom (1824)
Author(s):
Richard Johnson
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Echoes of Hellas (1887)
Author(s):
George C. W. Warr
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Faerie Queene (1894)
Author(s):
Edmund Spenser
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The History of Reynard the Fox (1894)
Author(s):
William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The History of Reynard the Fox (1897)
Author(s):
William Caxton
F. S. Ellis
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
W. W. Denslow
The Red Romance Book (1905)
A selection of stories from the old epics and some newer tales such as Don Quixote. Read online at Hathitrust.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Ballad of the White Horse (1911)
Author(s):
G. K. Chesterton
Illustrator(s):
None
Den underbare prinsen och andra indiska epos återberättade för ungdom (1916)
A Swedish translation of several Indian epic tales.
Author(s):
Erik Jotson
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Odyssey of Homer (1929)
This prose translation of the Odyssey aims to convey the full force of the Greek original.
Author(s):
Homer
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
John Brown’s Body (1930)
An epic poem about the abolitionist and domestic terrorist.
Author(s):
Stephen Vincent Benet
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Story of Roland (1930)
Author(s):
James Baldwin
Illustrator(s):
Peter Hurd
The Ring of the Nibelung (1932)
The story of Wagner’s opera cycle based on Norse sagas of Siegfied and Brunhilde.
Author(s):
Gertrude Henderson
Richard Wagner
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
The Bird of Dawning (1933)
The adventures of Cruiser Trewsbury 2nd Mate aboard the Blackgauntlet running an epic race from China to London when the ship goes down.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
M. G.
The Bird of Dawning (1933)
The adventure of the 2nd Mate aboard the Blackgauntlet running an epic race from China to London when the ship goes down.
This is the limited second English edition.
Author(s):
John Masefield
Illustrator(s):
Claude Muncaster
Roland the Warrior (1934)
A retelling of La Chanson de Roland.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Virginia M. Collier
Jeanette Eaton
Illustrator(s):
Frank Schoonover
The Story of Odysseus (1937)
The Odyssey of Homer.
The White Stag (1937)
The legendary tale of the migration of the Huns and Magyars from the east to Hungary.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Kate Seredy
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
Beowulf (1939)
Author(s):
William Ellery Leonard
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Yankee Doodle’s Cousins (1941)
A compilation of stories about American folk heroes.
Author(s):
Anne Malcolmson
Illustrator(s):
Robert McCloskey