Legends & Fairy Tales

The Fables of Pilpay

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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ


These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…

My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (Version 3)

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Edric Vredenberg


Here they are again, the old, old stories, the very best; dear Cinderella, wicked old Bluebeard, tiny Thumbling, beautiful Beauty and the ug…

The Hunting of the Snark (version 4)

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Lewis Carroll


The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense p…

Australian Fairy Tales

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James Hume-Cook


"The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the same words in which they were told. How the telling of them came abou…

Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume Two

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May Wentworth


High as the clouds are the mountains boldThat tower in the glorious Land of Gold,And cañons dusky with twilight deepWhere a thousand …

Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection 001

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Various


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favorite public-domain fairy tales. This is a collection of…

Duizend en één Nacht, Vierde deel

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Anonymous


Koning Schahriar denkt door zijn vrouw bedrogen te zijn. Om herhaling te voorkomen besluit hij voortaan elke avond een nieuwe vrouw te trouw…

Puss in Boots, Jr. and Tom Thumb

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David Cory


David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This book is in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss i…

Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children

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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor


Dear Denis,—Here is a story that I found in an old German poem called the Nibelungenlied. The poem is full of strange adventure, adventure o…

Old Fashioned Fairy Tales (version 2)

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Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


The title may lead you to think that these are retellings of old familiar fairy tales. Not so at all. These are completely new stories bu…

Panchatantra

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Vishnu Sharmatranslated Byarthur William Ryder


A collection of the most ancient and widely known stories in the world. The wisdom and wit in the verses of these frame stories sets the Pan…

The Book of Nature Myths (Version 2)

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Florence Holbrook


These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the…

Степные сказки (Stepnyia skazki)

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Grigory Danilevsky


Украинская степь - что это? Это бескрайнее пространство, устланное ковром из ароматных трав, над которыми оживленно жужжат пчелы, порхают цв…

African Jungle Tales

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Carl Bender


Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales which he later…

Black Folk Tales

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Erick Berry


This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin wh…

Lore of Proserpine

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…

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