Guerber. The Book of the Epic

Today's free book is The Book of the Epic: The World's Great Epics Told in Story by H. A. Guerber. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at the Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books. You can get a free Kindle ebook from Amazon too!


Greek Epics
The Iliad
The Odyssey

Latin Epics
The Aeneid

French Epics
The Song of Roland
Aucassin and Nicolette

Spanish Epics
The Cid

Portuguese Epics
The Lusiad

Italian Epics
Divine Comedy
The Inferno
Purgatory
Paradise
The Orlandos
Gerusalemme Liberata, or Jerusalem
Delivered

Epics of the British Isles
Beowulf
The Arthurian Cycle
Robin Hood
The Faerie Queene
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained

German Epics
The Nibelungenlied
Story of the Holy Grail

Epics of the Netherlands

Scandinavian Epics
The Volsunga Saga

Russian and Finnish Epics
The Kalevala, or the Land of Heroes

Epics of Central Europe and of the Balkan Peninsula

Hebrew and Early Christian Epics

Arabian and Persian Epics
The Shah-Nameh, or Epic of Kings

Indian Epics
The Ramayana
The Mahabharata

Chinese and Japanese Poetry

American Epics