Myths
History of the Britons
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Nennius
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories
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Various
Since this series of books is intended for all young people from oneto one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSERHYMES…
Russian Fairy Tales
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Peter Nikolaevich Polevoi
The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen was first made generally known to the British public by Mr W. R. S. Ralston in his “Russ…
The House of the Wolfings
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William Morris
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time suc…
Wet Magic
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E. Nesbit
A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom wit…
The Wonder Clock
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Howard Pyle
"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…
Undine
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Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …
In The Days of Giants
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Abbie Farwell Brown
This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and p…
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
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James Baldwin
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…
Once on a Time
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A. A. Milne
When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle …
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)
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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…
Because I Could Not Stop For Death
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Emily Dickinson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…
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…
Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion
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Chrétien De Troyes
Yvain, the Knight of the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, …
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…
Lulu's Library, Volume 2
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Louisa May Alcott
Most of these stories were written at sixteen for my younger sisters and their playmates, the little Emersons and Channings, and appeared so…