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Legends and Tales
Seven stories for children retelling ancient legends with a moral purpose: Ganga the river maid, the stealing of Persephone, the first roses, the drowning of the world, the Wandering Jew, Perseus the saviour and the story of Hypatia. Besant offers them as examples of self-sacrifice and courage.
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Authorship note
First number of the children's series Lotus Leaves for the Young. Besant's foreword notes that the stories had been written 'many years ago' and had already circulated; their first publication has not been established. Descriptive Spanish title.
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English
Annie Besant
Legends and Tales
The Conscious LibraryLegends and Tales
Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, 1913
Serie Lotus Leaves for the Young, n.º 1. Digitalizada en Internet Archive: cu31924022891109.
Other works by Annie Besant
- An Autobiography · 1893
- Autobiographical Sketches · 1885
- My Path to Atheism · 1877
- The Law of Population · 1877
- Marriage, As It Was, As It Is, and As It Should Be · 1879
- Why I Became a Theosophist · 1889
- The Seven Principles of Man · 1892
- Reincarnation · 1892
- Death—and After? · 1893
- Karma · 1895
- Man and His Bodies · 1896
- The Building of the Kosmos · 1894
- In the Outer Court · 1895
- The Path of Discipleship · 1896
- The Bhagavad Gita (translation) · 1895
- Four Great Religions · 1897
- The Ancient Wisdom · 1897
- Esoteric Christianity · 1901
- Thought Power · 1901
- Thought-Forms · 1905
- A Study in Consciousness · 1904
- An Introduction to Yoga · 1908
- Occult Chemistry · 1908
- The Laws of the Higher Life · 1903
- The Pedigree of Man · 1904
- Theosophy and the New Psychology · 1904
- London Lectures of 1907 · 1907
- The Changing World · 1909
- A Study in Karma · 1912
- Initiation: The Perfecting of Man · 1912
- Man: Whence, How and Whither · 1913
- How India Wrought for Freedom · 1915
- The Case for India · 1917
- India: Bond or Free? · 1926
- Talks on the Path of Occultism · 1926
- Popular Lectures on Theosophy · 1910
- The Spiritual Life · 1912
- Evolution of Life and Form · 1899
- Avatâras · 1900
- Dharma · 1899
- Giordano Bruno · 1913
- Fabian Essays in Socialism · 1889
- The Riddle of Life · 1913
- The Doctrine of the Heart · 1914
- Ancient Ideals in Modern Life · 1901
- The Religious Problem in India · 1901
- Hints on the Study of the Bhagavad Gita · 1906
- The Wisdom of the Upanishads · 1907
- The Story of the Great War · 1899
- Shri Rama Chandra, the Ideal King · 1901
- Some Problems of Life · 1900
- The Three Paths to Union with God · 1897
- The Birth and Evolution of the Soul · 1896
- The Self and Its Sheaths · 1895
- The Ideals of Theosophy · 1912
- Theosophy · 1912
- Theosophy and the Theosophical Society · 1913
- Superhuman Men in History and Religion · 1913
- Mysticism · 1914
- Wake Up, India · 1913
- India: A Nation · 1915
- The Immediate Future · 1911
- Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems · 1916
- Lectures on Political Science · 1919
- The Inner Government of the World · 1920
- The Future of Indian Politics · 1922
- The Birth of New India · 1917
- Buddhist Popular Lectures · 1908
- History of the Great French Revolution · 1876
- The Freethinker's Text-Book, Part II · 1876
- Charles Bradlaugh: A Sketch of His Life and Work · 1891
- The War and Its Lessons · 1920
- World Problems of Today · 1925
- Shall India Live or Die? · 1925
- The Masters · 1912
- Psychology · 1919
- Britain's Place in the Great Plan · 1921
- Duties of the Theosophist · 1917
- The Lives of Alcyone · 1924
- The Basis of Morality · 1915
- Hindu Ideals · 1904
- Talks with a Class · 1922
- Evolution and Man's Destiny · 1924
Sources
- Internet Archive, búsqueda por creador «Besant, Annie» (1873–1935): primeras ediciones digitalizadas de la Freethought Publishing Company y la Theosophical Publishing Society.
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