Legends & Fairy Tales
Children's Classics
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Augusta Stevenson
This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, H. C. Andersen, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by …
Stories from the Arabian Nights
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Laurence Housman
Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of …
Myths And Legends Of British North America
Read by David Wales
Katharine Berry Judson
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…
Children's Short Works
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 005: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Jataka Tales
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Ellen C. Babbitt
Jataka Tales form a part of the collective Indian Fairy tales with the only distinction that most of Jataka Tales have a moral. These are fa…
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Children's Short Works
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Various
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Myths of the New World
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Daniel Garrison Brinton
The Myths of the New World's full title describes it as.. " a treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America",…
The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
"The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie."The Faerie Queene was never completed,…
A House of Pomegranates
Read by Noel Badrian
Oscar Wilde
A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. This book contains four tales: 1. &quo…
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
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Songling Pu
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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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. They are an amalgam of mytho…
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
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David Kalakaua
A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of …
Finnish Legends
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R. Eivind
One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family …
Legends of Norseland
Read by Ryan Williams
Mara L. Pratt
Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…
The Strange Story Book
Read by Linda Andrus
Leonora Blanche Lang
This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stori…
The Norwegian Fairy Book
Read by Paul Harvey
Klara Stroebe
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher f…
Gawayne and the Green Knight
Read by Betsie Bush
The Gawain Poet, Charlton Miner Lewis, The Gawain Poettranslated Bycharlton Miner Lewis and The Gawain Poettranslated By Charlton Miner Lewis
Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telli…
The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it c…
Fairy Tales from South Africa
Read by Noel Badrian
Mrs. E. J. Bourhill, Mrs. E.J. Bourhill and Mrs. E. J. Bourhill
The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele people) and Zululand in So…