Legends & Fairy Tales
The Fairy Ring
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…
Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa"
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Sir Edwin Arnold
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The…
Korean Fairy Tales
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William Elliot Griffis
Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tel…
The Old Old Fairy Tales
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Laura Valentine
"Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms..." So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may als…
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
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Gertrude Landa
"My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general…
Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes
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Daṇḍin
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…
Eskimo Folk-Tales
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Knud Rasmussen
Quote:"No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Esk…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By Richard Francis Burton
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…
New Adventures of Alice
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John Rae
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…
The Wanderings of Oisin
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William Butler Yeats
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others
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Beatrix Potter
These are some of the wonderful little stories about animals written by Beatrix Potter. The disobedient little Peter who sneaks where he sh…
Puck of Pook's Hill (version 2)
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Rudyard Kipling
'Puck of Pook's Hill' is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods…
A Knyght Ther Was
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Robert F. Young
"But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewi…
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Six stores of OZ and it's wonderful inhabitants, told by the official Historian of Oz, L. Frank Baum. Lots of adventure here!! Dorothy and …
Hero and Leander
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Christopher Marlowe
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…
The Sea Lady
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H. G. Wells
The Sea Lady is a novel written by H. G. Wells. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson's Magazine before being published by…
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy…
Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian
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Charles John Tibbits
Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasure…
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
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Richard Gordon Smith
Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes ev…