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AesopAesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250)
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily…
Fanny E. CoeBook of Stories for the Storyteller
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of…
AnonymousBook of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 14 (Supplemental Nights)
In this volume Shahrazad relates several Arabic folk tales to her sister and is one of the many translated by Richard F. Burton…
Louey ChisholmCeltic Tales, Told to the Children
In olden days, when many Kings reigned throughout the Green Island of Erin, none was greater than the great Concobar. So fair was…
Beatrix PotterCollection of Beatrix Potter Stories
What can we say about the delightful Beatrix Potter stories? Starting with the naughty Peter Rabbit and his misadventures…
AesopFables of Aesop and Others
The origins of these fables are perhaps lost in obscurity, but they are so closely identified with the Greek writer Aesop, that…
John Henry Haaren, Addison B. PolandFamous Men of Greece
Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and…
Hamilton Wright MabieFamous Stories Every Child Should Know
The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at…
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust I
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so…
Ford Madox FordFeather
The headstrong Princess Ernalie is one day carried off from her kingdom by an eagle. Unable to return home because of impassable…
Charles John TibbitsFolk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian
Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its…
Charles John TibbitsFolk-lore and Legends: Oriental
The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth…
Pádraic ColumGirl Who Sat by the Ashes
"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…
Andrew LangGold of Fairnilee
A fairy story set in Scotland about Jean and Randal and what happens when Randal disappears into fairyland. This is Lang's second…
Andrew LangGreen Fairy Book
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections…
Guy Wetmore CarrylGrimm Tales Made Gay
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…
Jacob & Wilhelm GrimmGrimms' Fairy Tales
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this…
Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection
These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen - A collection of something for everyone - the very popular stories…
Oscar WildeHappy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading)
Wilde's collection of fairy tales has delighted both children and adults since it was first published in 1888. It contains five…
DaṇḍinHindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers)…
Frank Bird LindermanIndian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire
Delightful fables, collected by a devotee of Indian lore, recounts many of the legends told to him by tribal members, among them…
James StephensIrish Fairy Tales
Collection of Irish Fairy Tales set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and…
Mara L. PrattLegends of Norseland
Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames…
Johann Karl August MusäusLibussa
This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth…
Henryk SienkiewiczLife and Death, and Other Stories and Legends
Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar…
George MacDonaldLight Princess and Other Fairy Tales
George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly…
Lucian of SamosataLucian's Dialogues Volume 2: The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods
The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods are 15 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in…
H. A. GuerberMyths of Northern Lands
The aim of this handbook of Northern mythology is to familiarize the English student of letters with the religion of his heathen…
Lewis SpenceMyths of the North American Indians
At its core, the book presents an effort to synthesize and explain the diverse and profound ways in which Native American…
Alfred John ChurchOdyssey for Boys and Girls
A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of…
Edgar ThurstonOmens and Superstitions of Southern India
This book deals mainly with some aspects of what may be termed the psychical life of the inhabitants of the Madras Presidency…
Andrew LangOrange Fairy Book
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections…
Ada M. Skinner, Eleanor L. SkinnerPearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's Day
A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (Summary by…
E. CunninghamSeven Autumn Leaves From Fairyland
Seven original fairy tales . . . "Now for the stories you promised us." "Well, how many shall there be?" "O, seven, one for…
Arthur Bowie ChrismanShen of the Sea: A Book for Children
This book was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the Children’s Librarians’ Section of the American Library Association, for the…
Bertha Evangeline BushStory of Robin Hood
"He was brave and kind and merry always, and all the English people—except England's oppressors—loved him with all their hearts…
Hans Christian AndersenAndersen's Fairy Tales
A collection of eighteen fairy tales - some popular, some lesser known - by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen. (Summary by…
James Hume-CookAustralian Fairy Tales
"The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the same words in which they were told. How the telling of them…
Erick BerryBlack Folk Tales
This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna…
Maurice BaringBlue Rose Fairy Book
Here are twelve enchanting stories, including a search for the mythical Blue Rose, a mysterious wandering Glass Mender, an epic…
AnonymousBook of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an…
AnonymousBook of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an…
AnonymousBook of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an…
AnonymousBook of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an…
Jean LangBook of Myths
This is a collection of myths--mostly Greek with a smattering of others from the east--written in a clear and easy-to-read style…
AnonymousBook of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an…
Pádraic ColumBoy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
King Manus ruled over the Western Island, and he had a castle that was neither higher nor wider than any other King’s castle. But…
Joseph JacobsCeltic Fairy Tales
Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the…
Katharine PyleCounterpane Fairy (version 2)
Teddy has been ill. Now, he is feeling better and is bored; and his exhausted mother needs to rest. He is befriended by the…
George MacDonaldDay Boy and the Night Girl
A boy named Photogen, who has never seen the moon, meets a girl named Nycteris, who has never seen the sun. The two of them must…
Donald Alexander MackenzieElves and Heroes
This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about…
Howard E. AltemusEnchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland
Every boy and girl—and for that matter every man and woman, too—rejoices when the winter snows have vanished and the earth once…
Clara E. LaughlinEverybody's Lonesome
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties…
Edmund SpenserFaerie Queene Book 2
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never…
Edgar Dubs ShimerFairy Stories my Children Love Best of All
In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but…
Hans Christian AndersenFairy Tales
This collection of fairy tales include many that you may never have heard of. Published in 1884, Andersen obviously enjoyed…
Logan MarshallFavorite Fairy Tales (Version 2)
Love fairy tales? We all do, and here are some of our "Favorite Fairy Tales." Come join us to the land of China to hear the story…
Loretta Ellen BradyGreen Forest Fairy Book
This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. - Summary by Carolin
Andrew LangGrey Fairy Book
The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece…
Israel ZangwillGrotesques and Fantasies
A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the…