Legends & Fairy Tales
The Old Old Fairy Tales
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Laura Valentine
"Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms..." So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may als…
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
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Gertrude Landa
"My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general…
Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes
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Daṇḍin
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…
Eskimo Folk-Tales
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Knud Rasmussen
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…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08
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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. The are an amalgam of mythol…
New Adventures of Alice
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John Rae
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…
The Wanderings of Oisin
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William Butler Yeats
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others
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Beatrix Potter
These are some of the wonderful little stories about animals written by Beatrix Potter. The disobedient little Peter who sneaks where he sh…
Puck of Pook's Hill (version 2)
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Rudyard Kipling
'Puck of Pook's Hill' is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods…
Hero and Leander
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Christopher Marlowe
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…
A Knyght Ther Was
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Robert F. Young
"But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewi…
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Six stores of OZ and it's wonderful inhabitants, told by the official Historian of Oz, L. Frank Baum. Lots of adventure here!! Dorothy and …
Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian
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Charles John Tibbits
Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasure…
The Sea Lady
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H. G. Wells
The Sea Lady is a novel written by H. G. Wells. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson's Magazine before being published by…
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)
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Oscar Wilde
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…
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
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Richard Gordon Smith
Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes ev…
Canadian Wonder Tales
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Cyrus Macmillan
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…
An Arthurian Miscellany
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Various
A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table …
Aino Folk-Tales
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Basil Hall Chamberlain
Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of …
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By Jonathan Scott
The third of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in her…