Legends & Fairy Tales

The Sleeping Beauty

by Charles Perrault Read by mlcui 4.8
What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French collection of over …

Tales of Folk and Fairies

by Katharine Pyle Read by William Tomcho 4.7
Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle invites listeners into a world of enchanting stories that span cultures and traditions. This col…

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

by William Scott-Elliot Read by Rapunzelina 4.3
This volume contains two publications by W. Scott-Elliot, namely The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). A theosophist and…

Odysseus

by Karl Friedrich Becker Read by Karlsson 4.8
Odysseus, König von Ithaka, ist sicher einer der bekanntesten Helden der griechischen Mythologie. Nach der Eroberung Trojas begibt er s…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by Phil Chenevert 4.3
Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds m…

Mother’s Nursery Tales

by Katharine Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…

Wet Magic

by E. Nesbit Read by Phil Chenevert 4.5
A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom wit…

Kabumpo in Oz

by Ruth Plumly Thompson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Dear children: Do you like Elephants? Do you believe in Giants? And do you love all the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz? Well then …

The Odyssey for Boys and Girls

by Alfred John Church Read by Ginny Blankenship 4.6
A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. T…

The Mysterious Stranger

by Mark Twain Read by Patrick79 4.4
Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story…

Old Greek Stories

by James Baldwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin invites listeners into the enchanting world of ancient Greek mythology, where legendary heroes embark on …

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
"The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse".The Faerie Queene was ne…

Tausend und eine Nacht

by Unknown Read by Bernd Ungerer 4.7
Scheherazade oder Schehersad, die Tochter eines Wesirs, heiratete den König / Sultan, der die Angewohnheit hatte, seine Ehefrauen am er…

Tanglewood Tales

by Nathaniel Hawthorne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite!Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection featur…

Grimms' Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

The Arabian Nights Entertainments

by Anonymous Read by Gillian Hendrie 4.5
In this collection of Middle Eastern tales, Scheherazade tells stories night after night to hold the attention of a king who has made her li…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

by The Gawain Poet Read by M. J. Boyle 4.6
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…

Old Testament Legends

by M. R. James Read by David Wales 4.4
M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are a…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

The Algonquin Legends of New England

by Charles Godfrey Leland Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

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