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EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts - Ann Radcliffe
EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts - Ann Radcliffe
- Author: Ann Radcliffe
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / Poetry
In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in order to spy on his girlfriend, Aura, and see if she really loves him. He does this by venturing unseen into...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 016 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 016 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children - E. Louise SMYTHE
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children - E. Louise SMYTHE
- Author: E. Louise SMYTHE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lists of reading words on each page, and these have been read by a child. - Summary by Sarah Jennings...
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I - François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I - François Rabelais
- Author: François Rabelais
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son...
Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades - Florence HOLBROOK
Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades - Florence HOLBROOK
- Author: Florence HOLBROOK
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Plays / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Despite the title's bland sounding name, this book is a charming collection of 16 plays for children. These little plays—well-known stories done into dialogue—were written for children who like to imagine themselves living with their favorite...
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in...
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
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)...
Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales - Sanni Metelerkamp
Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales - Sanni Metelerkamp
- Author: Sanni Metelerkamp
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Animals & Nature
Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex, the British born entrepreneur who founded the town of Knysna and was rumoured to have been an...
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Plays / Drama
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been...
The Indian Story Book - Richard WILSON
The Indian Story Book - Richard WILSON
- Author: Richard WILSON
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has retold them in English, in an effort to showcase to young English-speaking readers that 'oriental' stories...
Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish - Charles John Tibbits
Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish - Charles John Tibbits
- Author: Charles John Tibbits
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors of Folklore—Afanasief, Erben, Wojcicki, Glinski, etc. The chap-book tales, and many of those of Glinski, are,...
The Worshipper of the Image - Richard le Gallienne
The Worshipper of the Image - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Worshipper of the Image," by Richard Le Galliene first published in 1900. The protagonist Antony, a poet buys a death mask in an antique shop and soon realizes it resembles his wife Beatrice. The death mask, Antony names "Silencieux," becomes...
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series - Richard Harris Barham
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series - Richard Harris Barham
- Author: Richard Harris Barham
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series...
The Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends...
Jataka Tales - Ellen C. BABBITT
Jataka Tales - Ellen C. BABBITT
- Author: Ellen C. BABBITT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Jataka Tales form a part of the collective Indian Fairy tales with the only distinction that most of Jataka Tales have a moral. These are famous children stories and some of the stories like the "the turtle who couldn't stop talking" and "the King's...
The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) - Snorri STURLESON
The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) - Snorri STURLESON
- Author: Snorri STURLESON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas / Other religions
Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. Along with the Elder or Poetic Edda written by an unknown poet a...
Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Idylls of the King - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry / Romance
Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the...
Popular Tales from the Norse - Sir George Webbe Dasent
Popular Tales from the Norse - Sir George Webbe Dasent
- Author: Sir George Webbe Dasent
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the days when there were tales in...
The Dream Coach - Anne Parrish
The Dream Coach - Anne Parrish
- Author: Anne Parrish
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Dream Coach was named a Newbery Honor Book in 1925. Anne Parrish's original stories of dream adventures hold fairy-tale charm that is sure to delight young children, perfect for bedtime reading one chapter at a time. Her tales capture the...
In The Days of Giants - Abbie Farwell Brown
In The Days of Giants - Abbie Farwell Brown
- Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and pleasant, but winter is a terrible time of cold and gloom; where rocky mountains tower like huge giants, over...
Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy 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. These stories are fantastical and although aimed squarely at the flexible mind of a child which can assimilate...
Irish Fairy Tales - James STEPHENS
Irish Fairy Tales - James STEPHENS
- Author: James STEPHENS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Collection of Irish Fairy Tales set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and fairies - Summary by Anthony K. Futterer...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 10 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 10 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...
Raggedy Andy Stories (version 2) - Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Andy Stories (version 2) - Johnny Gruelle
- Author: Johnny Gruelle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The beloved Raggedy Ann stories are beloved classics about the little rag doll with the floppy body, perpetual smile and happy attitude. Well, these stores about Raggedy Andy, a boy rag doll who has those same attitudes and some exciting adventures....
Fifty Funny Animal Tales - Laura Rountree Smith
Fifty Funny Animal Tales - Laura Rountree Smith
- Author: Laura Rountree Smith
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"This book contains short stories of animals that will charm the children. Such characters as the Funny Fox, the Happy Hare, the Willful Wolf, the Careful Cat and many others appear. Useful proverbs are woven into these tales. The stories will be of...
A Guide to Mythology - Helen Clarke
A Guide to Mythology - Helen Clarke
- Author: Helen Clarke
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Reference
My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go with immature minds, based upon the most recent investigations of scholars, and to select the myths used in...
The Tales of Mother Goose - Charles Perrault
The Tales of Mother Goose - Charles Perrault
- Author: Charles Perrault
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These stories were the original ones collected by Charles Perrault and published in French in 1696. You may have heard of some of them and they are probably a bit different than what you may expect, coming from an age and time when the ears of our...
Nutcracker and Mouse-King (version 2) - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Nutcracker and Mouse-King (version 2) - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Christmas Eve Mary receives a nutcracker. At midnight, this gift comes alive and brings her into a world full of dolls, candies and rose scent. The little wooden soldiers of her brother Fritz and the toys that are in the glass cabinet of the family...
The One-Eyed Fairies - Georgia Eldridge Hanley
The One-Eyed Fairies - Georgia Eldridge Hanley
- Author: Georgia Eldridge Hanley
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Cute children's book about a little girl named Margaret. Struggling with her sewing lessons, Margaret is relieved to find the needles in her work basket are magical and can help with both plain and fancy projects. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Version 2) - Selma Lagerlöf
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Version 2) - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Nils Holgersson is a boy who would rather cause trouble than be responsible. One day as he is skipping out on going to church he captures an elf. His treatment of this small creature provokes it to transform him into an elf as well. Along with his...
A Medley of Weather Lore - M. E. S. Wright
A Medley of Weather Lore - M. E. S. Wright
- Author: M. E. S. Wright
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Anthologies
A Medley of Weatherlore is a compilation of poems, sayings, and bits of folklore for each month of the year. - Summary by A. Gramour...
The Book of Nature Myths (Version 2) - Florence HOLBROOK
The Book of Nature Myths (Version 2) - Florence HOLBROOK
- Author: Florence HOLBROOK
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the phenomena of nature given by the native races appeal to the child's wonder about the same phenomena, and he...
A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children - Sir George Webbe Dasent
A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children - Sir George Webbe Dasent
- Author: Sir George Webbe Dasent
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of Norse folktales selected as being appropriate for children. They range from short pieces such as, "How One Went Out to Woo" to the longer stories such as, "The Blue Belt" and "Shortshanks," and include such favorites as, "The...
Rumpty-Dudget's Tower: A Fairy Tale - Julian Hawthorne
Rumpty-Dudget's Tower: A Fairy Tale - Julian Hawthorne
- Author: Julian Hawthorne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Julian Hawthorne spins a charming fairy tale featuring the mischievous dwarf Rumpty-Dudget', Princess Hilda, Prince Frank and the Queen. Add in some gnomes, golden Ivy-seed, diamond water-drops and magic fire and you are in for enchanting...
Mongan's Frenzy - James STEPHENS
Mongan's Frenzy - James STEPHENS
- Author: James STEPHENS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and you will spend some considerable time in Faery. It is funny, quirky, fast paced, full of surprises, and...
Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables - Gertrude LANDA
Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables - Gertrude LANDA
- Author: Gertrude LANDA
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Gertrude Landa or rather, Hannah Gittel (Annie Gertrude) Landa nee Gordon wrote under the pen-name of Aunt Naomi. The stories that she relates in this book are mostly based on parables from the Talmud and the Midrash, those compilations of ancient...
The Brownies and Prince Florimel - Palmer Cox
The Brownies and Prince Florimel - Palmer Cox
- Author: Palmer Cox
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
After Prince Florimel flees his home (and a particularly nasty uncle) he has a series of adventures with the mischevious but helpful Brownies, Queen Titania and her fairies, and the ill-tempered enchanter, Dragonfel....
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Version 4) - L. Frank Baum
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (Version 4) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but the delightful version relayed in The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus is by far the most charming and...
Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Winnie the Pooh, the loveable little bear with a great big heart (and only a slightly less large appetite for honey), has fun and adventures in this book. All of the other residents of the 100 acre wood join in to help this happen. Rabbit, Piglet,...
Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble - Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann's Wishing Pebble - Johnny Gruelle
- Author: Johnny Gruelle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Raggedy Andy raised up on his cotton stuffed elbow and whispered to Raggedy Ann, "Less have another adventure! Shall we?" And Raggedy Ann's shoe button eyes wiggled with pleasure and she whispered in reply, "Yes, Raggedy Andy! Less do!" So they...
