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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1990
  • Latest Book:
    November 2021
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Fairytale Retellings: The Frog Prince

The Frog Prince (Oct-1999)

Book List in Order: 16 titles





  • When the archangel Gabriel appears to a narrator who has written a bestselling book called Against Angels, our whole view of the world is turned on its head. What is the nature of bliss? What games do angels play? What is angelic sex like? Gabrie...



  • In this brilliant jewel of a book, the best-selling author of Tao Te Ching: A New English Version expands and deepens the classic fairy tale in the most surprising and delightful ways, giving new emphasis to its message of the transcendent power of l...



  • Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right.Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an a...



  • "This exquisitely designed and illustrated retelling is a lush interpretation
    of Andersen's tale." -- THE HORN BOOK


    A National Council of Teachers of English

    Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts

    "Elaborate, har...



  • "Costumes and architecture suggest northern Europe somewhat before Andersen's own time, a sumptuous setting for this strange, profoundly provocative classic." -- HORN BOOK

    "Left, right! Left, right!" A soldier is marching home from war when ...



  • Master storyteller Stephen Mitchell brings three of the best loved stories from The Arabian Nights to independent young readers ready for adventure. All richly illustrated with lustrous line drawings throughout, they are here for young readers to ...



  • Matt Tavares s luminous illustrations and Stephen Mitchell s wry text transform this classic Grimms fairy tale into a splendid edition to treasure. "Deep in a forsaken wood, a wild man keeps watch over a golden spring." Iron Hans is nine feet tall an...



  • Enhanced by Stephen Mitchell’s illuminating commentary, the next volume of the classic manual on the art of living The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is the classic man...






  • A revised edition of the first book of poems by Stephen Mitchell, the renowned translator of Rilke's poetry, The Book of Job, and the Tao Te Ching. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....



  • A political satire wherein one very powerful Senator is able to turn the entire country upside-down so as to match the conditions of his own personal life. Stephen Mitchell’s Ignorance is Bliss takes us into the myopic and inebriated world of Marti...



  • Ray D. Shosay is a Hollywood screenwriter who is living--or hiding out--in the Hotel Georges V in Paris where he intersects with characters of all sorts and opines on the issues of our time. His journal is a window on his world. Ray D. Shosay, if sai...



  • When clearing out his mother's fl at Stephen discovers a tin of old photographs under her bed. Each image evokes a memory of childhood and we get to meet the people who inhabit those memories - wayward friends and sensible friends, strict teachers an...




  • A widely celebrated translator’s vivid, accessible, and elegantly concise rendering of an ancient English masterpiece

    Beowulf tells the story of a Scandinavian hero who defeats three evil creatures -- a huge, cannibalistic ogre n...



  • “I love The First Christmas. What a charming way Stephen Mitchell has found to tell my favorite story of all, the Nativity, character by character (I love the donkey and the ox), with wise and thrilling interludes about God, reality, truth.” "A...


Award-Winning Books by Stephen Mitchell

Iron Hans
2007 Parents Choice Award (Fall) (1998-2007) -- Recommended
The Tinderbox
2007 Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) -- Gold


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Stephen Mitchell has published 16 books.

Stephen Mitchell does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The First Christmas, was published in November 2021.

The first book by Stephen Mitchell, Creation, was published in September 1990.

No. Stephen Mitchell does not write books in series.