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AnonymousArabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01
The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes…
K. Langloh ParkerAustralian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies
A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe, known among themselves as…
G. K. ChestertonBallad of the White Horse (Version 3)
This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is…
Margaret T. CanbyBirdie and His Fairy Friends
This book contains 13 stories for little children, about a little boy named Birdie and his adventures out in nature with the…
AnonymousBook of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 12
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an…
Cyrus MacmillanCanadian Wonder Tales
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French…
Elsie Spicer EellsFairy Tales from Brazil
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial…
Elsie Spicer EellsFairy Tales from Brazil (Version 2)
A collection of short, sweet fairy tales from Brazil, including How the Tiger Got His Stripes, and Why The Bananas Belong to the…
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFaust II
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so…
Louisa May AlcottFlower Fables - Version 2
A Queen of fairy subjects asks her Maids of Honor to tell stories while they wait for the sun to rise. Tales including The Frost…
Elphinstone DayrellFolk Stories from Southern Nigeria, West Africa
A collection of folk stories and fairy tales from Southern Nigeria gathered by Elphinstone Dayrell, deputy commissioner of the…
Johnny GruelleFriendly Fairies
Friendly Fairies is a popular book by Johnny Gruelle who is known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Listen to…
Olive Beaupre Miller, VariousFrom the Tower Window of My Bookhouse
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for…
Frances BrowneGranny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading)
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly…
Pádraic ColumKing of Ireland's Son
The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy…
Harry W. FrenchLance of Kanana: A Story of Arabia
A gripping, coming-of-age tale with youthful heroism, wisdom and fortitude on the Arabian Peninsula, somewhat in the style of One…
Andrew LangViolet Fairy Book
Andrew Lang’s Violet Fairy Book (1901) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a…
Frances Jenkins OlcottWonder Garden
"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of…
AesopAesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150)
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 11 (Fables 251-275)
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily…
Maurice MaeterlinckBlue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil…
Clifton JohnsonBook of Fairy-Tale Bears
Bears make an appearance in so many fairy tales and fables, it is difficult to imagine a fairy-tale world without them. However…
Clifton JohnsonBook of Fairy-Tale Foxes
Wild animals play a big role in many fairy tales, and foxes are some of the best-represented animals in folklore. In this volume…
Florence HolbrookBook of Nature Myths (Version 2)
These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful…
Pádraic ColumChildren of Odin
Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of…
Coningsby DawsonChristmas Outside Of Eden
A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle…
Harold GazeCoppertop
The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night…
Andrew LangCrimson Fairy Book
The Crimson Fairy Book contains thirty-six stories collected from around the world and edited by Andrew Lang. Many tales in this…
Fyodor DostoyevskyCrocodile (Version 2)
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a young…
Ann RadcliffeEDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts
In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of…
Knud RasmussenEskimo Folk-Tales
Quote: "No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly…
Jean de La FontaineFables in Rhyme for Little Folks (version 2)
This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based…
Lafcadio HearnFantastics and Other Fancies
This posthumous collection of short stories by noted author and historian of weird folklore brings together 36 of his earliest…
Henry BestonFirelight Fairy Book
One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a…
Oscar WildeFisherman and His Soul (Version 2)
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in…
Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 6, 1866 to 1875
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. Summary…
Elsie Spicer EellsIslands of Magic
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of…
LyonesseLegend Land Volume 1 & 2
"Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now…
Catherine CroweNight-Side of Nature; Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers
The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of…
Clara Doty BatesOn The Tree Top
A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. - Summary by David Lawrence Additional Proof-listening by…
E. NesbitPhoenix and the Carpet (version 3 Dramatic Reading)
Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane need a new carpet for the nursery, but it turns out to be a magic carpet containing a phoenix egg!…
David CoryPuss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse
David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This is one in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend…
Mary MacleodShakespeare Story-Book
This book contains many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, retold for children. - Summary by kathrinee
Charles Perrault, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-CouchSleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French
What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French…
H. A. GuerberStory of the Greeks
This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! - Summary by…
Ludovico Ariosto, Joseph Shield NicholsonTales from Ariosto
The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The…
Howard R. GarisUncle Wiggily's Airship: Bedtime Stories
"Uncle Wiggily Longears, the old gentleman rabbit, sat in his burrow-house reading the morning paper. It was after breakfast, on…
David CoryWind Wagon
This is the fourth tale in the Little Journeys to Happy Land series by David Cory author of the Little Jack Rabbit series of…
Edwin P. NorwoodAdventures of Diggeldy Dan
Diggeldy Dan (rhymes with Wiggildy Wan) is a most ingenious fellow who lives in a circus called Spangleland. He looks like a…
AesopAesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125)
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily…
Carl BenderAfrican Jungle Tales
Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales…
Lewis Carroll, Alice GerstenbergAlice in Wonderland (Drama)
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version…
Arthur MachenAngels of Mons
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle…
AnonymousArabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03
The third of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's…
AnonymousBook of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an…
Ambrose BierceCobwebs from an Empty Skull
Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This…
E. NesbitFive Children and It (version 4)
When four children (and their baby brother makes five) manage to uncover the long-dormant Psammead (in plain English, then…
Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 3, 1848 to 1853
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary…
Hans Christian AndersenIce-Maiden: and Other Tales
Short-stories/fairy tales by H. C. Anderson, includes The Ice-maiden -- The Butterfly -- The Psyche -- The Snail and the…
Lafcadio HearnIn Ghostly Japan
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces…