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Introductions to Individual Tales

Editorial Material for The Earthly Paradise

General Introduction by Florence S. Boos

Introductions for specific tales: 

Introduction to "Apology"

Introduction to "Prologue: The Wanderers"

Introduction to "Atalanta's Race"

Introduction to "The Man Born to Be King"

Introduction to "The Doom of King Acrisius"

Introduction to "The Proud King"

Introduction to "The Story of Cupid and Psyche"

Additional note "The Story of Cupid and Psyche," ll. 1755-57 [Peter Wright]

Introduction to "The Writing on the Image"

Introduction to "The Love of Alcestis"

Introduction to "The Lady of the Land"

Introduction to "The Son of Croesus"

Introduction to "The Watching of the Falcon"

Introduction to "Pygmalion and the Image"

Introduction to "Ogier the Dane"

Introduction to "The Death of Paris"

Introduction to "The Land East of the Sun and West of the Moon"

Introduction to "Acontius and Cydippe"

Introduction to "The Lovers of Gudrun"

Introduction to "The Story of Rhodope"

Introduction to "The Man Who Never Laughed Again"

Introduction to "The Golden Apples"

Introduction to "The Fostering of Aslaug"

Introduction to "Bellerophon at Argos"

Introduction to "The Ring Given to Venus"

Introduction to "Bellerophon in Lycia"

Introduction to "The Hill of Venus"

 

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