Legends & Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales or folk lore by the Grimm…
Children's Short Works
Discover a delightful assortment of enchanting tales in Children's Short Works by the renowned Brothers Grimm. This collection features 15 c…
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Celtic Twilight
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy…
Mother Goose in Prose
Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales
The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold…
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…
Old Indian Legends
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa invites listeners into a rich tapestry of Native American folklore, where the cunning trickster Iktomi take…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Golden Maiden
Armenians trace their history back to before the time of the Babylonians and earliest recorded history - in fact, to Togarmah, a grandson of…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…
Tanglewood Tales
All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite!Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection featur…
The Legends of Charlemagne
Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) explains the his work is "an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make …
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
An unlucky Munchkin boy named Ojo must travel around Oz gathering the ingredients for an antidote to the Liquid of Petrifaction which has tu…
Raggedy Ann Stories
As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!The same Raggedy Ann w…
The Algonquin Legends of New England
This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…
Aesop's Fables
Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds m…
A Knyght Ther Was
"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…
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…