📚 Legends

Remembered story with a local address: heroes, saints, and the places that swear it happened there.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject legends in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Robin Hood	Howard Pyle	1883	724
	Bambi	Felix Salten	1900	111
	Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	1877	107
	Old Testament legends	Montague Rhodes James	1873	94
	The Eyes of the Dragon	Stephen King	1959	65
	Fairy legends and traditions of the south of Ireland	Thomas Crofton Croker	1825	59
	The heroes	Charles Kingsley	1855	56
	The Legends of the Jews	Louis Ginzberg	1909	48
	Die Legende des Baalschem	Martin Buber	1656	41
	Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland	Lady Jane "Speranza" Wilde	1887	36
	A book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry. Illustrated by F. T. Merrill	Samuel Adams Drake	1883	35
	Big Red	Jim Kjelgaard	1945	34
	The Historian	Elizabeth Kostova	2005	32
	Curious myths of the Middle Ages	Sabine Baring-Gould	1867	30
	Sundiata	Djibril Tamsir Niane	1960	29
	Myths & legends of Babylonia & Assyria	Lewis Spence	1916	26
	Erzählungen der Chassidim	Martin Buber	1947	25
	Mythology of the British Islands	Charles Squire	1905	24
	Mythos	Stephen Fry	2017	22
	Hero tales & legends of the Rhine	Lewis Spence	1905	21
	Myths & legends of Japan	F. Hadland Davis	1912	21
	Legends and popular tales of the Basque people	Mariana Monteiro	1887	20
	Rimas y leyendas	Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer	1938	20
	The Outlaws of Sherwood	Robin McKinley	1988	20
	Japanese Fairy Tales	Yei Theodora Ozaki	1905	19
	Hero tales and legends of the Serbians	Woislav M. Petrovitch	1914	19
	Myths & legends of China	Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner	1922	19
	Myths & legends of the Celtic race	Thomas William Hazen Rolleston	1911	17
	Hawaiian mythology	Martha Warren Beckwith	1940	16
	Orpheus: myths of the world	Padraic Colum	1930	15

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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