Myths
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes
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Pádraic Colum
"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was n…
Maoriland Fairy Tales
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Edith Howes
Most of the tales have some basis in history. It is an oral language so all histories have to be remembered and retold. To help with this me…
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World
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Willis George Emerson
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the stor…
Flower Fables
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Louisa May Alcott
Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
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James Knowles and Sir Thomas Malory
The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book—now long out of print—which was written by me t…
Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children
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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor
A collection of Arthurian tales retold for children. (Summary by Joy Chan)
Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology
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Mary H. Fostertranslated Bymabel H. Cummings, Mary H. Fosterandmabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Foster And Mabel H. Cummings
Asgard Stories - Tales from Norse Mythology. To all our Children who have loved the hearing of these Asgard Stories. This little volume is t…
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
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Charles Perrault
This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales.(Summary by A.L. Gramou…
The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales
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William Patten
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales
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Edric Vredenberg and Edric Vredenburg
This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (…
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Version 3)
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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…
Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament
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M. R. James
M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are a…
Sylvie and Bruno
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Lewis Carroll
The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional w…
Andersen's Fairy Tales (Version 2)
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Hans Christian Andersen
A small collection of some of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales -- including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Red Shoes, The Naughty Boy and fifteen…
Grimm Tales Made Gay
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tal…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 004
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 004: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World
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Snorri Sturleson
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Ice…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 6) (Dramatic Reading)
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L. Frank Baum
Folk Lore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinct…
Elves and Heroes
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Donald Alexander Mackenzie
This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the c…
The Spanish Tragedy
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Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and inf…