Legends & Fairy Tales
My Father's Dragon
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Ruth Stiles Gannett
A short story about a boy who befriends a cat and then sets off on an adventure to rescue a dragon.
Atlantis
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Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born i…
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…
The Book of Dragons
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E. Nesbit
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…
The Princess and the Goblin
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George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin is an enthralling fantasy tale written by George MacDonald. Her nurse Lootie raises the princess Irene in a hous…
The Book of Werewolves
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Sabine Baring-Gould
A survey of the myths and legends concerning lycanthropy from ancient times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by A. Gramour)
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria
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Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in t…
Old Greek Stories
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James Baldwin
A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Thes…
Faust I
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories
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Hans Christian Andersen
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…
The Age of Fable
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Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
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Aesop
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…
Through the Looking-Glass
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Lewis Carroll
Sequel to Alice in Wonderland, this volume sees Alice travel through a mirror to a dream-world where she meets chess pieces and other curiou…
Metamorphoses
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…
The Adventures of Pinocchio
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Carlo Collodi
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a…
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Hans Christian Andersen
A collection of eighteen fairy tales - some popular, some lesser known - by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen.(Summary by Gesine)
The Lilac Fairy Book
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although And…
The Red Fairy Book
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Andrew Lang
The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books.…
Alice in Wonderland
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Lewis Carroll
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes…
The Heroes
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Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…