![]() If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department. Some titles not owned by the libraries are included in this list due to their classic nature, or their position as part of a series. But…if you’ve been wanting to sample some of the better known novels to feature dragons as major characters or plot points, this should give you a starting point.Īll books in this list which are owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. This list is not, by any means, a complete chronology of all known dragon-themed novels or short stories. ![]() Now, Dragons can actually be the heroes of stories themselves, or at least share the limelight with humanity. Gone are the days when Dragons were merely the “boogeyman” of stories, evil villains against which wholesome heroes could launch noble quests. In fact, Dragons in popular literature are more popular and multi-faceted now than they’ve ever been before. For almost as long as Dragons have featured in mythology and folklore, they’ve also appeared in the popular culture of fiction, throughout the ages. ![]() Dragons also symbolized the dangerous, mysterious and unknown - ancient map-makers often used the image of a sea-bourne dragon and the phrase “here be dragons” to identify areas on maps that had not yet been explored. Dragons have generally fallen into two categories of folklore: European Dragons (with ties to Greek and Middle-Eastern legends) - traditionally with legs and bearing wings, and Eastern Dragons (from the lands of Asia, including China, Japan and Korea) - traditionally more snake-like. Dragons show up in the mythologies of many different cultures, dating back to the 1200s, and (some say) even earlier. The mere mention of the name conjures up images of massive, serpentine, lizard-like beasts, breathing fire and soaring through the sky, terrorizing medieval villages. “But it is one thing to read about dragons, and another to meet them.” - Ursula K.
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