Legends & Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales (version 2)
Read by Bob Neufeld
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 b…
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome
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E. M. Berens
This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of majo…
Robin Hood
Read by Barry Eads
J. Walker McSpadden
Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and gi…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Lewis Carroll
"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…
The Children of Odin
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Pádraic Colum
Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the advent…
Grimms' Fairy Tales
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs
A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book - Celtic Fairy Tales, but this recordin…
Tales of Old Japan
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Lord Redesdale
Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1803 - 1868). It contains…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25)
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Aesop
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Iliad of Homer
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Homer
"The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Iliu…
King Arthur and His Knights
Read by Robin Cotter
Maude L. Radford Warren
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian …
The Enchanted Castle
Read by Peter Eastman
E. Nesbit
Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of …
The Blue Fairy Book
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…
Favorite Fairy Tales
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Various
This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beau…
The Origins of Christianity
Read by JoeD
Thomas Whittaker
The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christi…
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One
Read by Timothy Ferguson
William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)
My Father's Dragon
Read by as101
Ruth Stiles Gannett
A short story about a boy who befriends a cat and then sets off on an adventure to rescue a dragon.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
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Ignatius Loyola Donnelly
"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born i…
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…
The Book of Dragons
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
E. Nesbit
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…