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Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
The Lost Princess - George MacDonald
The Lost Princess - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Also known as "A Double Story" or "The Wise Woman." The story of two very spoiled girls, a princess and a peasant, who are kidnapped by a strange woman for a lesson in life. They may not emerge the same... but will their parents be changed for the...
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1) - Songling Pu
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1) - Songling Pu
- Author: Songling Pu
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular...
Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise - Lucy CLIFFORD
Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise - Lucy CLIFFORD
- Author: Lucy CLIFFORD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her lifetime as Mrs W.K. Clifford. She was famous with her mathematician husband for Sunday salons which attracted...
The Indian Fairy Book - Henry R. SCHOOLCRAFT
The Indian Fairy Book - Henry R. SCHOOLCRAFT
- Author: Henry R. SCHOOLCRAFT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians in the West and around the Great Lakes for thirty...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10 - Anonymous
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories - Various
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Since this series of books is intended for all young people from oneto one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSERHYMES. Nothing better was ever invented to tell to little folks whoare young enough for lullabies. Their rhythm,...
Undine - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
Undine - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Author: Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / Romance
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into English and other languages. The novel...
Russian Fairy Tales - William Ralston SHEDDEN-RALSTON
Russian Fairy Tales - William Ralston SHEDDEN-RALSTON
- Author: William Ralston SHEDDEN-RALSTON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Russian Fairy Tales is an anthology of stories by a noted Russian scholar and translator. The 51 stories are thematically organized with introductory material to put them both in the context of Russian folklore and in their relation to the myths of...
The Mabinogion, Volume 2 - Anonymous
The Mabinogion, Volume 2 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Sagas / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the second of three volumes of The Mabinogion, a collection of some of the earliest tales from the British Isles. Lady Charlotte Guest translated the stories in Volume 2 from a 14th-century Welsh manuscript, The Red Book of Hergest. These...
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at the centre, from myths because they make no attempt to personify or explain the forces or processes of nature, from fairy...
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1 - Songling Pu
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1 - Songling Pu
- Author: Songling Pu
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular...
The Red Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Red Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books. The series was immensely popular and proved of great influence in children's literature, increasing the popularity of...
History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffrey of MONMOUTH
History of the Kings of Britain - Geoffrey of MONMOUTH
- Author: Geoffrey of MONMOUTH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Antiquity
More medieval romance than history, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae represents the oldest versions we have of many legends of Britain, populated by such characters as the Leir, Cymbeline, Uther and Arthur Pendragon and Cadwallader....
The Mabinogion, Volume 1 - Anonymous
The Mabinogion, Volume 1 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of the black sheep would cross over, and...
Gawayne and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
Gawayne and the Green Knight - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction / Poetry
Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telling the story of the Green Knight's challenge to Gawayne, and the romance between Sir Gawayne and Lady...
My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles GANNETT
My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles GANNETT
- Author: Ruth Stiles GANNETT
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A short story about a boy who befriends a cat and then sets off on an adventure to rescue a dragon...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa" - Sir Edwin ARNOLD
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa" - Sir Edwin ARNOLD
- Author: Sir Edwin ARNOLD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Ancient
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The Hitopadesha is a collection of tales that gives good counsel. Hitopadesa was presumably written by Narayan...
Myths And Legends Of British North America - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of British North America - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Religion
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning of the Newness of Things. Nothing was too large or too small to come within the bounds of their beliefs, or...
The Religion of Ancient Egypt - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
The Religion of Ancient Egypt - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites and by this established seriation as a relative dating method as a major contribution to Egyptian...
The National Nursery Book - Unknown
The National Nursery Book - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Publishers offer in this little volume of well known and long loved stories to their young readers. The tales which have delighted the children of many generations will, they feel assured, be equally welcome in the nurseries of the present day,...
Favorite Fairy Tales Retold - Julia Darrow COWLES
Favorite Fairy Tales Retold - Julia Darrow COWLES
- Author: Julia Darrow COWLES
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this volume, Ms. Cowles has collected her favourite fairy tales and retold them for children. All of the most famous authors are represented, such as Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. But instead of retelling all the standard tales,...
The Faerie Queene Book 1 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 1 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
"The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse".The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser...
The Counterpane Fairy - Katharine Pyle
The Counterpane Fairy - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated with each of the squares in the counterpane (quilt) on his sickbed. She has him concentrate on one of the...
Welsh Fairy Tales - William Elliot Griffis
Welsh Fairy Tales - William Elliot Griffis
- Author: William Elliot Griffis
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of delightful tales that explore the uniqueness of the Welsh people, Welsh heroes, Welsh countryside, Welsh animals and Welsh pride. Some other minor peoples are mentioned in passing (the English, The Scots, etc.) but mainly...
The Angels of Mons - Arthur Machen
The Angels of Mons - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The story is fictitious, developed through a combination of a patriotic short...
The Scarecrow of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow,...
Nibelungenlied - Anonymous
Nibelungenlied - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfried at the court of the Burgundians, how he was murdered, and of his wife Kriemhild's revenge. The...
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse.No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story; however, results differed for Austrian...
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World - Snorri STURLESON
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World - Snorri STURLESON
- Author: Snorri STURLESON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) ca. 1230. The name Heimskringla was first used...
The Frog Prince and Other Stories - Walter Crane
The Frog Prince and Other Stories - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
Here are three charming fairy tales with happy endings. They feature an enchanted frog; a princess, her brothers, and a dastardly plot against them; and a magical lamp with a Genius inside. (by Laurie Anne Walden)...
Elves and Heroes - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Elves and Heroes - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Author: Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the characters and folk tales that inspired the author's poetry. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)...
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria - William SCOTT-ELLIOT
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria - William SCOTT-ELLIOT
- Author: William SCOTT-ELLIOT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This volume contains two publications by W. Scott-Elliot, namely The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). A theosophist and believer of the Occult, W. Scott-Elliot gives us a description of the history and structure of Atlantis and...
The King of the Golden River - John Ruskin
The King of the Golden River - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
When three brothers mortally offend Mr. Southwest Wind, Esquire, their farm is laid waste and their riches lost. Desperate for money, the brothers become goldsmiths and melt down their remaining treasures . . . only to find that the spirit of the...
The Fall of the Nibelungs - Unknown
The Fall of the Nibelungs - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the...
Metamorphoses - Publius
Metamorphoses - Publius
- Author: Publius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history of the world through mythological...
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01 - Anonymous
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a succession of virgins only to execute each one the...
Legend Land Volume 1 & 2 - LYONESSE
Legend Land Volume 1 & 2 - LYONESSE
- Author: LYONESSE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by LYONESSE" (from the subtitle; Lyonesse was the pseudonym for George Basil Barham)....
