Myths
Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound
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William Robert Spencer
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Beth Gêlert, or the Grave of the Greyhound by William Robert Spencer. This was the Fort…
The Worshipper of the Image
Read by Holly McGuire
Richard Le Gallienne
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask i…
A Primary Reader
Read by LittlePeanut
E. Louise Smythe
"This book originated in a series of little reading lessons prepared for the first grade pupils in the Santa Rosa public schools. The o…
The Brownies
Read by Jude Somers
Palmer Cox
The Brownies are delightful, helpful, mischievous characters and this series of rollicking rhymes tells many stories about their adventures.…
Black Tales for White Children
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Nancy Stigand and Chauncey Hugh Stigand
Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…
The Wishing Horse of Oz
Read by Phil Chenevert
Ruth Plumly Thompson
The magical kingdom of Oz is happily doing all the wonderful things it does in peace and happiness, not knowing that a far off evil and gras…
The Enchanted Forest
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William Bowen
If you have listened to (or read) Solario the Tailor on Librivox you know that collection of stories is the second a two volume set of remar…
Nutcracker and Mouse-King
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Christmas Eve Mary receives a nutcracker. At midnight, this gift comes alive and brings her into a world full of dolls, candies and rose sce…
Tales from Ariosto
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Ludovico Ariosto and Joseph Shield Nicholson
The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The present volume is…
Shen of the Sea
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Arthur Bowie Chrisman
This book was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the Children’s Librarians’ Section of the American Library Association, for the most disting…
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Dried-up Fountain
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Robert Leighton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Dried-up Fountain by Robert Leighton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Decembe…
A Tale Of Cader Idris
Read by Gary J. Conover
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Our narrator, Bob, knows George Bowring from school days. Their lives, dreams and misfortunes are parallel until George marries the woman Bo…
Christmas Tales Of Flanders
Read by David Wales
Andre De Ridder
“The Christmas Tales Of Flanders presented in this volume are popular fables and legends current in Flanders and Brabant, which have for cen…
Little Miss Joy-Sing
Read by KevinS
John Luther Long
A pleasant kind of fantasy set in Japan concerning a woman and a prince. - Summary by KevinS
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin
In this volume Shahrazad relates several Arabic folk tales to her sister and is one of the many translated by Richard F. Burton. These tales…
Uncle Wiggily's Airship
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Howard R. Garis
"Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit, sat in his burrow-house reading the morning paper. It was after breakfast, on a nice…
Libussa
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Johann Karl August Musäus
This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth, her elevation…
The Rainbow Book
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Mabel Henrietta Spielmann
"Tales of Fun & Fancy" is the subtitle of this story book and it well describes the contents which are written with a great de…
The Lance of Kanana
Read by PaulW
Harry W. French
A gripping, coming-of-age tale with youthful heroism, wisdom and fortitude on the Arabian Peninsula, somewhat in the style of One Thousand A…