Legends & Fairy Tales
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I
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François Rabelais
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Oscar Wilde
A collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, all incorporating his inimitable style and wit. Sometimes sweet and uplifting, sometimes caust…
Through Fairy Halls 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 third volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at the centre, f…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 001
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Librivox’s Children's Short Works Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2)
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Charles Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold…
Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs
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Lafcadio Hearn
Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collect…
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859
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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 Fairy Book
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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
The sleeping beauty in the wood -- Hop-O'-My-Thumb -- Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper -- Adventures of John Dietrich -- Beauty and …
Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The stories we have read and loved but retold in words of one syllable to make it easier for young readers or those where English is a secon…
Household Tales
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, R…
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
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James W. Schultz
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 – 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the …
The Princess and Curdie (Version 2)
Read by Hannah Mary
George MacDonald
A year has passed since Curdie's adventures with young Princess Irene and the hostile goblins deep in the mountain. As Curdie grows up, his …
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson
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Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
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Alfred John Church
A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. T…
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
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L. Frank Baum
The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny,…
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)
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Songling Pu
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supe…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 016
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E. Nesbitt and Charles Dickens
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Myths That Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)
The Islands of Magic
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Elsie Spicer Eells
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…