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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…
Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary…
Oscar WildeHappy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)
Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at…
David CoryIceberg Express
This is the third tale in the Little Journeys to Happy Land series by David Cory author of the Little Jack Rabbit series of…
Alfred, Lord TennysonIdylls of the King
Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord…
Henry R. SchoolcraftIndian Fairy Book
These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the…
Ellen C. BabbittJataka Tales
Jataka Tales form a part of the collective Indian Fairy tales with the only distinction that most of Jataka Tales have a moral…
Alice van Leer CarrickKitty-Cat Tales
Dolly's parents go away to care for her grandmother. She misses them dreadfully. Miss Jane is no help at all in comforting Dolly…
Ethel Cook EliotLittle House in the Fairy Wood
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy…
Louisa May AlcottLulu's Library, Volume 3
No handy foreword from Louisa this time! This is the third volume of short stories by Louisa May Alcott for children. This…
David CoryPuss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb
David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the…
Carlo CollodiAdventures of Pinocchio
The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The…
AesopAesop for Children
A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the…
AesopAesop's Fables, Volume 07 (Fables 151-175)
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily…
AesopAesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200)
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily…
AesopAesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225)
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily…
AesopAesop's Fables: A New Revised Edition
Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and…