Legends & Fairy Tales

Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson

by Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …

Favorite Fairy Tales

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beau…

Tales of Old Japan

by Lord Redesdale Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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…

Myths and Legends of Alaska

by Katharine Berry Judson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government eth…

The Wonder Clock

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…

Thirty More Famous Stories Retold

by James Baldwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…

Canadian Wonder Tales

by Cyrus Macmillan Read by Sean Michael Hogan 4.6
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…

In The Days of Giants

by Abbie Farwell Brown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and p…

The Celtic Twilight

by William Butler Yeats Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy…

Die Königsbraut

by E. T. A. Hoffmann Read by Hokuspokus 4.5
Ein nach der Natur entworfenes Märchen.Eines Tages findet das gartenbegeisterte Fräulein Ännchen eine wunderschönen Ring…

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…

The Legends of Charlemagne

by Thomas Bulfinch Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) explains the his work is "an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make …

Maoriland Fairy Tales

by Edith Howes Read by Marea Brook 4.6
Most of the tales have some basis in history. It is an oral language so all histories have to be remembered and retold. To help with this me…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Mother Goose in Prose

by L. Frank Baum Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

by Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Olive Beaupre Miller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…

Critias

by Plato Read by Kevin Johnson 4.5
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Das Schwert und die Schlangen

by Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa Read by Hokuspokus 4.5
Karl Wilhelm Salice-Contessa war ein schlesischer Dichter der Romantik. Er war einer der "Serapionsbrüder" um E. T. A. Hoffm…

The Iliad for Boys and Girls

by Alfred John Church Read by Lizzie Driver 4.2
Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a sty…

The Smoky God

by Willis George Emerson Read by JaySands 4.3
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the stor…

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