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The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry
Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Grey Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Grey Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss...
Romances of Old Japan - Yei Theodora OZAKI
Romances of Old Japan - Yei Theodora OZAKI
- Author: Yei Theodora OZAKI
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of romances from old Japan rendered into English by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Filled with tales of honor, adventure, tragedy, and romance, this collection will surely give anyone interested in Japanese culture and literature (as well as...
Fairy Tales from Brazil - Elsie Spicer EELLS
Fairy Tales from Brazil - Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Author: Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)...
The Little House in the Fairy Wood - Ethel Cook ELIOT
The Little House in the Fairy Wood - Ethel Cook ELIOT
- Author: Ethel Cook ELIOT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature, and happiness. (Summary by A. Gramour)...
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)...
The Magical Mimics in Oz - Jack SNOW
The Magical Mimics in Oz - Jack SNOW
- Author: Jack SNOW
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking inside Mount Illuso, just south of the Deadly Desert, live the Magic Mimics, a race devoted to causing the...
The Lady of the Lake - Sir Walter Scott
The Lady of the Lake - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The scene of the following Poem is laid chiefly in the vicinity of Loch Katrine, in the Western Highlands of Perthshire. The time of Action includes Six Days, and the transactions of each Day occupy a Canto. (Summary by William J. Rolfe, ed.)...
Zanzibar Tales - George W. BATEMAN
Zanzibar Tales - George W. BATEMAN
- Author: George W. BATEMAN
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with the faculty of speech, or gazelles that are overseers for native princes, or hares that eat flesh. No, indeed;...
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This wonderful children’s short story tells all about the youth, manhood and old age of Santa Claus and how he became immortal. (Introduction by jedopi)...
The Yellow Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Yellow Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected...
The Race Of The Swift - Edwin Carlile LITSEY
The Race Of The Swift - Edwin Carlile LITSEY
- Author: Edwin Carlile LITSEY
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales...
Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 02 - Various
Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 02 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of international fairy tales clocking in at 5-15 minutes apiece, suitable for childrens' winter cocoa breaks, or other times when quality entertainment is needed. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Golden Spears, and other Fairy Tales - Edmund LEAMY
The Golden Spears, and other Fairy Tales - Edmund LEAMY
- Author: Edmund LEAMY
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a little volume of original fairy tales by Irish lawyer, author and politician Edmund Leamy. - Summary by Carolin...
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)...
Sintram and His Companions - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
Sintram and His Companions - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Author: Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil. 'My strength is as the strength...
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France - Marie de FRANCE
French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France - Marie de FRANCE
- Author: Marie de FRANCE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Romance
The tales included in this little book of translations are derived mainly from the "Lays" of Marie de France. I do not profess them to be a complete collection of her stories in verse. The ascription varies. Poems which were included in her work but...
Stories from the Faerie Queene - Mary MACLEOD
Stories from the Faerie Queene - Mary MACLEOD
- Author: Mary MACLEOD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but little read and known--to excite this interest not only in young persons who are not yet able to read "The Faerie...
The Fasti - Publius
The Fasti - Publius
- Author: Publius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to the Roman calendar and explains the origins of Roman holidays and associated customs, often through the mouths...
Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable - Thomas BULFINCH
Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable - Thomas BULFINCH
- Author: Thomas BULFINCH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is a recording of the tenth edition...
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 3) - L. Frank Baum
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 3) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
L. Frank Baum takes us through the adventures of Santa Claus beginning with his adoption as an infant by Necile the nymph. As a youth, Claus discovers fellow humans on earth and returns to their world where he decides his duty is to make children...
The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales - William PATTEN
The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales - William PATTEN
- Author: William PATTEN
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age....
The Royal Book of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Royal Book of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written entirely by Thompson. The Scarecrow is...
The Fairy Tales of Science - John Cargill BROUGH
The Fairy Tales of Science - John Cargill BROUGH
- Author: John Cargill BROUGH
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction
This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science for children. In each chapter, the author uses a popular myth or fairy tale to lay the groundwork for an...
The Origins of Christianity - Thomas WHITTAKER
The Origins of Christianity - Thomas WHITTAKER
- Author: Thomas WHITTAKER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Religion / Antiquity
The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christiaan van Manen (1842-1905) was a Dutch theologian. The vast majority of van Manen’s radical criticism of the...
Honey-Bee - Anatole France
Honey-Bee - Anatole France
- Author: Anatole France
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A sweet fairy-tale, Honey-Bee tells the story of two children raised as brother and sister, but who are not. One day they venture out to find the lake where the nixies dwell, though they are forbidden to do so. On this ill-fated journey, young...
The Story of Robin Hood - Bertha Evangeline BUSH
The Story of Robin Hood - Bertha Evangeline BUSH
- Author: Bertha Evangeline BUSH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"He was brave and kind and merry always, and all the English people—except England's oppressors—loved him with all their hearts and delighted in his adventures. The story of what he did was put into songs and sung at every fireside; and no man was...
Dot and Tot of Merryland - L. Frank Baum
Dot and Tot of Merryland - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the adventures of a little girl named Dot and a little boy named Tot in a land reached by floating on a river that...
Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs - Lafcadio HEARN
Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collection are widespread: There are old ghost stories Hearn is best known for (The Legend of Yurei-Daki), his own...
My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (version 2) - Edric Vredenberg
My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (version 2) - Edric Vredenberg
- Author: Edric Vredenberg
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Here they are again, the old, old stories, the very best; dear Cinderella, wicked old Bluebeard, tiny Thumbling, beautiful Beauty and the ugly Beast, and a host of others. But the old stories, I may tell you, are always new, and always must be so,...
More English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
More English Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (English Fairy Tales) had almost exhausted the scanty remains of the traditional...
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - Pádraic Colum
The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles - Pádraic Colum
- Author: Pádraic Colum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This is Irish folklorist Padraic Colum's masterful retelling of many Greek myths, focusing on Jason and the Argonauts' quest to find the Golden Fleece. He also includes the stories of Atalanta, Heracles, Perseus, Theseus, and others. (Summary by...
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 6, 1866 to 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 6, 1866 to 1875 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. Summary by Kristingj....
Edmund Dulac's Fairy Tale Book - Edmund DULAC
Edmund Dulac's Fairy Tale Book - Edmund DULAC
- Author: Edmund DULAC
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Unusual Fairy Tales from around the world, this story collection contains; a mother with two daughters both named Caroline, a carriage drawn by winged frogs, a prince turned into a bird and a princess in the form of a deer, a fairy in the shape of a...
The Enchanted Island of Yew - L. Frank Baum
The Enchanted Island of Yew - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
A fairy has become bored with her life, and convinces some young girls to transform her into a human boy so she can go on adventures. The adventures come fast and furious, as the newly-named Prince Marvel explores the surrounding kingdoms. A...
The Wise Woman - George MacDonald
The Wise Woman - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
George MacDonald was an influential Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. MacDonald’s works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) claimed the admiration of such authors as J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L’Engle....
English Fairy Tales - Ernest RHYS
English Fairy Tales - Ernest RHYS
- Author: Ernest RHYS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of old-fashioned English fairy tales. This collection, written by Ernest Rhys, founder of the Everyman's Library series of classic books, and his wife Grace, contain all the classic English fairy tales, such as Jack the Giant...
The Coming of the Fairies - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Coming of the Fairies - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
After a number of deaths in his close family, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle turned to spiritualism in hope of finding proof of the afterlife. Being open in this way, he wanted to believe that spirits and other supernatural being including fairies were...
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French - Charles Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French - Charles Perrault
- Author: Charles Perrault
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French collection of over forty volumes. "Certainly the translations, when finished, did not satisfy me, and so I turned back to the...
Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland - L. Frank Baum
Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
Twinkle is a little girl who often finds herself caught up in fantastic adventures. Whether it be being put on trial by angry woodchucks, raising a hateful baby crow, visiting a town full of talking prairie dogs, finding magical turtles, meeting...
