Legends & Fairy Tales

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…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

The Little House in the Fairy Wood

by Ethel Cook Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature…

The Fairy Tales of Science

by John Cargill Brough Read by J. M. Smallheer 4.2
This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…

History of the Britons

by Nennius Read by BUAES 3.9
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …

The Lady of the Lake

by Sir Walter Scott Read by Cynthia Moyer 4.5
The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action …

Cossack Fairy Tales

by Robert Nisbet Bain Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special…

A House of Pomegranates

by Oscar Wilde Read by NoelBadrian 4.8
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…

The Silver Princess in Oz

by Ruth Plumly Thompson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old friend, Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink. Together, they set out to visit their…

Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen

by Hans Christian Andersen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as …

Eskimo Folk-Tales

by Knud Rasmussen Read by Expatriate 4.8
Quote:"No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Esk…

More English Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…

The Story of King Arthur

by Winona Caroline Martin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Of all the legends of bygone ages which we in the foremost ranks of time may call our own perhaps none have come to us so fraught with the s…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales

by Oscar Wilde Read by NoelBadrian 4.6
Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy…

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…

The Enchanted Castle

by Hartwell James and Howard E. Altemus Read by Kalynda 4.7
In a world where nature awakens from its winter slumber, The Enchanted Castle invites listeners into a realm of wonder and magic. This encha…

The Fisherman and his Soul

by Oscar Wilde Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012) 4.3
”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherm…

The Fall of the Nibelungs

by Unknowntranslated Bymargaret Armour, Translated Bymargaret Armour and Unknowntranslated By Margaret Armour Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied&q…

The Phoenix and the Carpet

by E. Nesbit and Honoré de Balzac Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane need a new carpet for the nursery, but it turns out to be a magic carpet containing a phoenix egg! They disco…

The Strange Story Book

by Leonora Blanche Lang Read by Linda Andrus 4.7
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…

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