Legends & Fairy Tales
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts
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Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visite…
The Silver Princess in Oz (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Ruth Plumly Thompson
Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old frien…
Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables
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Gertrude Landa
Gertrude Landa or rather, Hannah Gittel (Annie Gertrude) Landa nee Gordon wrote under the pen-name of Aunt Naomi. The stories that she relat…
Metamorphoses (Howard Version)
Read by Peter Tucker
Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Translated from Latin into English blank verse, this classic Roman text gives an account of a series of fabulous episodes from creation thro…
The Maker of Rainbows
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Richard Le Gallienne
A collection of Fairy Tales from Richard Le Gallienne.
Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental
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Charles John Tibbits
The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while …
The Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
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Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten
This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The storie…
Legend Land Volume 1 & 2
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Lyonesse
"Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by …
The Singing Mouse Stories
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Emerson Hough
The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the wate…
Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks (version 2)
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Jean de la Fontaine
This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories w…
The Ghosts' High Noon
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W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Ghosts' High Noon by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry HALLOWE'EN project for Oct…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 12
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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 Three Mulla-mulgars
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Walter de la Mare and Walter De La Mare
Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonde…
The Strange Story Book
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Leonora Blanche Lang
A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final…
The Crocodile (Version 2)
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a…
The Train Dogs
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Train Dogs by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 6th, 20…
Eastern Stories and Legends
Read by Max Hollway
Marie Louise Shedlock
A collection of ancient myths, legends and fairy-tales. Each story is a timeless adventure featuring a hero who is sometimes a man, animal o…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 09
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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,…
The Wind Boy
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Ethel Cook Eliot
A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales
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Frank R. Stockton
This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingre…