Myths
The Myths and Fables of To-day
Samuel Adams was born in 1833, began journalism in 1858, served in the Army for 10 years & returned home to continue with his journalism…
The Demi-Gods
In this memorialized Irish tale, 3 huge winged demi-gods (part god/part human) have descended to earth to experience human existence. They e…
Märchen
Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…
Winnebago Stories
Winnebago Stories is a collection of traditional tales from the Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) tribe, offering insight into the rich oral traditions o…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Geschichten vom lieben Gott
»Wissen Sie, sie sind jetzt beide in dem Alter, die Kinder, wo sie den ganzen Tag fragen. Zum Beispiel: Spricht der liebe Gott auch c…
The Oresteia
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libati…
The Indian Story Book
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has re…
The Flower Princess
ONCE upon a time there was a beautiful Princess named Fleurette, who lived in a white marble palace on the top of a high hill. The Princess …
The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer
This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so h…
Myths and Legends of Alaska
The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest o…
Tales of 1927
This anthology of folktales, fables, and legends has been selected from twenty different books published (or re-published) in 1927, covering…
The Book of Good Counsels
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The…
Heimskringla
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Ice…
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales invites listeners into the enchanting world of Irish folklore, where magic and reality intertwine. This collecti…
Mythology
Jane Ellen Harrison was an English classical scholar whose work had a particular focus on the earliest origins of Greek religion. Her Mythol…
History of the Britons
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …
Personal Collection of Short Tales
This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. The…
The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun
This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and ad…
Australian Fairy Tales
"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…