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Libra Esoterica

The world's desire

by H. Rider Haggard & Andrew Lang

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: Chinese, English
  • Content type: Fiction
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"The World's Desire" by H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang is a fantasy novel published in 1890. Odysseus returns to Ithaca after a second journey, only to find his home destroyed by plague and his wife Penelope dead. Guided by a vision of Helen of Troy, he embarks on a final quest to Egypt, where he encounters a treacherous queen, ancient prophecies, and dangerous magic. The novel weaves Greek mythology with the Biblical Exodus in an epic tale of love, loss, and destiny. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

    • “Fairies”· via Open Library
  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “folklore”, “Legends”, and 4 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “Mythology” in the description, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, “Legends” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “Legends”· via Open Library
    • “Mythology”· via Open Library
    • “Tales”· via Open Library
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythological”· via Project Gutenberg

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Editions

Open Library reports 95 editions; 2 cataloged here.

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1972Ballantine Books; Pan/BallantineEnglish
  • 9780345097613
  • 0345097610
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2006-04-04Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 95 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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