Legends & Fairy Tales
Jātaka Tales
Read by Scotty Smith
H. T. Francis
Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s…
The Race Of The Swift
Read by David Wales
Edwin Carlile Litsey
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales
Coppertop
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Harold Gaze
The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also ha…
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…
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…
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods
Read by Phil Benson
William T. Cox
A limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propellor-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous app…
Teddy Bears
Read by Linda Andrus
Adah Louise Sutton
Set in the early 1900's, this is a delightful story of a tribe of Teddy Bears arrival in the department store and the adventures some of the…
The Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany
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Rudolf Baumbach, Richard von Volkmann and Richard Von Volkmann
Gertrude Schottenfels has collected and arranged eleven original tales from Germany in this volume. Ms Schottenfels alternates between stori…
The Hunting of the Snark (version 4)
Read by Craig Franklin
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…
Bunny Brothers
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Jacqueline Clayton
Pinkie is one of a whole bunch of bunny brothers and sisters. Their mother, Mrs. Bunny, is a busy woman and often exasperated with the exub…
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…
The Desert
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Mathilde Blind
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Desert by Mathilde Blind. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.
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…
Tall Tales from Texas
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Mody Coggin Boatright
Some tall tales from Texas. Lies? well, just stretching the truth a bit. These 8 stories have lots of good 'ol Texas 'dialect' in them so …
The Boy Apprenticed to an Enchanter
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Pádraic Colum
King Manus ruled over the Western Island, and he had a castle that was neither higher nor wider than any other King’s castle. But he had a s…
The Reign of King Oberon
Read by Bryn Roberts
Walter Jerrold
In all the annals of Fairyland nothing is more wonderful—and the annals are found in many hundreds of volumes—than that chapter which tells …
Duizend en één Nacht, Vierde deel
Read by Marcel Coenders
William James Mcglothlin
Koning Schahriar denkt door zijn vrouw bedrogen te zijn. Om herhaling te voorkomen besluit hij voortaan elke avond een nieuwe vrouw te trouw…