The Junior Classics

Folk Tales & Myths

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English · 1918 · 14h 28m · Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales, Anthologies, Children's Fiction

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Junior Classics is an anthology of stories selected and arranged for young readers, bringing together traditional tales and animal stories in one volume.

The collection ranges across several settings and traditions: the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, and the Hudson River. Its variety offers listeners a chance to move from myth and legend to stories rooted in the natural world.

Published in 1918, the book reflects an early twentieth-century approach to introducing young people to a broad range of storytelling. It is suited to listeners looking for a sampler of classic tales rather than a single continuous narrative.

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Note 1:47 Read by DrPGould
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 1, The Northmen's Story of How all Things Began 14:34 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 2 How the Queen of the Sky Gave Gifts to Men 6:39 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 3 The Dwarfs and the Fairies 8:59 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas Part 4, How Thor Went to Jotunheim 24:12 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 5, How Thor's Hammer was Lost and Found 19:22 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 6, Iduna's Apples of Youth 34:20 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 7 How the Fenris Wold was Chained 12:37 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas, Part 8 The Story of Balder the Beautiful 16:49 Read by Foon
Chapter 1, Stories from the Northern Sagas Part 9 The Wonderful Quern Stones 12:56 Read by Foon
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 1 Brunhilda and the Magic Sword 12:40 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 2 Brunhilda's Sleep Guarded by Loki's Fiery Arm 12:21 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 3 How Siegfried Killed the Dragon 27:14 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 2 The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried, Part 4 How Siegfried Finds Brunhilda 11:51 Read by HarmonicPearl
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 1 The Plot Against the Beautiful Elsa of Brabant 11:31 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 2 The Knights of the Holy Grail 4:51 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 3 Lohengrin the Champion of Elsa of Brabant 13:52 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 4 Ortruda Plots for Revenge 5:34 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 5 the Departure of Lohengrin 14:00 Read by mparker
Chapter 3 The Story of Lohengrin Part 6 the Wooing of the Daughter of the King of Ireland 15:28 Read by mparker
Chapter 4 Three Tales of the Rhine Part 1 The Lady of Kynast 4:56 Read by Foon
Chapter 4 Three Tales of the Rhine Part 2 The Guardian Angel 4:02 Read by Foon
Chapter 4 Three Tales of the Rhine Part 3 The Giant Who Laughed at a Dwarf 2:23 Read by Foon
Chapter 5 The Legend of St. Christopher 15:50 Read by AnnaLisa Bodtker
Chapter 6 Prince Ivan and the Gray Wolf 27:51 Read by Michael Robinson
Chapter 7 King Robert of Sicily 17:40 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 1 The Riddle of the Sphinx 42:19 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 2 The Gift of Athene 7:54 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 3 Daphne, Child of the Morning 4:10 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 4 The Vengeance of Apollo 11:57 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 5 The Story of Arion 12:56 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 6 The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice 11:30 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 7 Orpheus the Sweet Singer 7:53 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 8 Niobe, a Victim of Latona's Jealousy 9:53 Read by Mayah
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 9 The Sad Story of Pyramus and Thisbe 8:04 Read by Mayah
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 10 The Twelve Labors of Hercules 10:08 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 11 Hercules's Search for the Apples of Hesperides 43:15 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 12 The Story of Cupid and Psyche 22:02 Read by Eva Staes
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 13 How Phaeton Drove the Sun 15:41 Read by ceekay
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 14 Baucis and Philemon Changed into Two Trees 6:25 Read by ceekay
Chapter 8 Myths of Greece and Rome Part 15 The Paradise of Children 33:18 Read by Michael Robinson
Chapter 9 Tales of the Hudson Part 1 Rip Van Winkle 37:59 Read by Larry Wilson
Chapter 9 Two Tales of the Hudson Part 2 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 42:56 Read by Larry Wilson
Chapter 9 Two Tales of the Hudson Part 2 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (continued) 29:28 Read by Larry Wilson
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 1 the Hare who thought the World had come to an End 6:26 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 2 the Watering of the Saplings 2:26 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 3 The Old Hare and the Elephants 3:54 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 4 The Elephant has a Bet with the Tiger 10:40 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 5 How the Tortoise Out-Ran the Deer 5:15 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 6 Which was the Stronger, the Tortoise, The Tapir, or the Whale? 4:23 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 7 How the Turtle Got his Shell 8:01 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 8 The Legend of Rata 9:14 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 9 Why the Hippopotamus Lives in the Water 3:52 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 10 Why the Elephant has small Eyes 5:47 Read by Nemo
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 11 The Boy who set a Snare for the Sun 11:18 Read by Ali Medved
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 12 The Bird Lover 21:40 Read by pmstrahm
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 13 Wunzh, the Father of Indian Corn 12:25 Read by ceekay
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 14 When Brer Wolf have his Corn Shucking 6:26 Read by Jyothi
Chapter 10 Some Animal Myths of Various Lands Part 15 Brer Rabbit's Cool Air Swing 5:36 Read by Michael Robinson
Chapter 11 Three Stories of the Seasons Part 1 The Four Seasons 13:13 Read by Tatry1763
Chapter 11 Three Stories of the Seasons Part 2 The Three Lemons 20:04 Read by rona890
Chapter 11 Three Stories of the Seasons Part 3 The Winter-Spirit and His Visitor 5:51 Read by Ali Medved