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Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll
Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Published 1800 -1900
The novel has two main plots; one set in the real world at the time the book was published (the Victorian era), the other in the fictional world of Fairyland. While the latter plot is a fairytale with many nonsense elements and poems, similar to...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) - 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...
Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales and stories by Hans Christian Andersen, selected and read by students from Hunter College High School. Enjoy! :) Summary by faith9p....
Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The stories we have read and loved but retold in words of one syllable to make it easier for young readers or those where English is a second language. Some you will know and love, others you may never have heard of but all are worth reading and...
The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories - Evelyn SHARP
The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories - Evelyn SHARP
- Author: Evelyn SHARP
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
What better thing can I say about this book except that it is written by Evelyn Sharp the author who writes fairy stories with a flowing and beautiful style. These eight stories are different in that they are a bit longer than usual fairy stories,...
In the Nursery of My Bookhouse - Various
In the Nursery of My Bookhouse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive...
The King of Ireland's Son - PΓ‘draic Colum
The King of Ireland's Son - PΓ‘draic Colum
- Author: PΓ‘draic Colum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It is the story of the eldest of the King of Ireland's sons, and his adventures winning and then finding Fedelma,...
The Story of the Three Little Pigs - L. Leslie Brooke
The Story of the Three Little Pigs - L. Leslie Brooke
- Author: L. Leslie Brooke
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This recording can be enjoyed by itself, or you can read along with the Library of Congress facsimile version from...
Critias - Plato
Critias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed the story to be true. Critias, a...
Christ Legends - Selma LagerlΓΆf
Christ Legends - Selma LagerlΓΆf
- Author: Selma LagerlΓΆf
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Religion
These are beautiful little stories about Christmas from the Swedish storyteller Selma LagerlΓΆf. As she explains in the first story, they were told her by her grandmother "I remember that grandmother told story after story from morning till night,...
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he explains their meaning and fascinating history. What is the true story of Little Boy Blue? Why was Mary...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100) - 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...
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World - Ignatius Loyola DONNELLY
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World - Ignatius Loyola DONNELLY
- Author: Ignatius Loyola DONNELLY
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during 1831. Donnelly considered Plato's account of Atlantis as largely factual and...
Peasant Tales of Russia - Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
Peasant Tales of Russia - Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
- Author: Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
Collection of Russian peasant tales: "The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. "Mahmoud's Family" - Escaping prisoners of war should be shot, but Mahmoud has a family. "A...
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will...
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This compilation is comprised of "Fables of Zambri, the Parsee," "Brief Seasons of Intellectual Dissipation" and the "Divers...
The Scottish Fairy Book - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
The Scottish Fairy Book - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Author: Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious region under the sea, "far below the abode of fishes," where the Mermaids and Mermen live. There are stories...
West African Folk Tales - William H. BARKER
West African Folk Tales - William H. BARKER
- Author: William H. BARKER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of folk tales mostly centred around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as either a spider, a human or a combination of both. Thus many of the stories are attempts by Anansi to trick...
In Ghostly Japan - Lafcadio HEARN
In Ghostly Japan - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of Buddhist Proverbs and explaining...
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park - James W. SCHULTZ
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park - James W. SCHULTZ
- Author: James W. SCHULTZ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Westerns
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 β 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the Blackfoot Indians. Schultz is most noted for his prolific stories about Blackfoot life and his contributions...
Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian - Charles John Tibbits
Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian - Charles John Tibbits
- Author: Charles John Tibbits
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to AsbjΓΆrnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasures are many, and of much value. One may be almost sorry to find among them the originals of many of our English...
The Orange Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Orange Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute 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...
The Olive Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Olive Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Langβs Olive Fairy Book (1907) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was followed by many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Langβs Fairy Books. (Summary...
The Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry - William PATTEN
The Junior Classics Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry - William PATTEN
- Author: William PATTEN
- Genre: 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,...
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Jessie Braham WHITE
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - Jessie Braham WHITE
- Author: Jessie Braham WHITE
- Genre: Plays / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The classic story of Snow White and the seven dwarfs, now in play form! The play was adapted by Jessie Braham White (the pen name of Winthrop Ames), from the Grimm tale. - Summary by RachelCast List: Narrator: Zach K. Princess Snow White: Kristin...
Canadian Wonder Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
Canadian Wonder Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
- Author: Cyrus Macmillan
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as "fables" though many are without obvious moral. (Summary by...
The Princess and Curdie - George MacDonald
The Princess and Curdie - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Princess and Curdie is the sequel to The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald. It's been a year since the Princess Irene and Curdie first met, and a year since the goblin incident and all appears to be going well in the Kingdom. Or is it?...
Mopsa The Fairy - Jean Ingelow
Mopsa The Fairy - Jean Ingelow
- Author: Jean Ingelow
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Jean Ingelow (1820 β 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord Tennyson as the first female Poet Laureate when he died in 1892. Mopsa the Fairy, written in 1869 is one of...
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E. M. BERENS
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E. M. BERENS
- Author: E. M. BERENS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)...
Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus - Thomas Nelson Page
Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus - Thomas Nelson Page
- Author: Thomas Nelson Page
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A charming tale about an Tommy, affluent Virginia boy who always gets what he wants at Christmas, only to discover his toys never make him quite happy. He begins to take pity on his poor neighbor Johnny, and slowly understands than only by giving...
Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse - Various
Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the third volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller,...
Romulus - Jacob Abbott
Romulus - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
Jacob Abbott wrote many historical books for children. He was careful to ensure historical accuracy, and as he said himself in the preface to this book "Whatever of interest ... these stories may possess is due solely to the facts themselves which...
The Story of Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
The Story of Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with music and beautiful...
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - L. Frank Baum
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned at an infant he is found by the nymph Necile, who convinces the great...
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction / Plays
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes first in the internal chronology,...
The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales - Joseph BAUDIS
The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales - Joseph BAUDIS
- Author: Joseph BAUDIS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roots) of well known fairy tales such as βThe Brave Little Taylorβ and βBeauty and the Beast,β as well as some...
Christmas Outside Of Eden - Coningsby Dawson
Christmas Outside Of Eden - Coningsby Dawson
- Author: Coningsby Dawson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath the holly on the Eve of Christmas"βthe sensation created by the birth of the first baby, among the animals on...
Flower Fables - Louisa May Alcott
Flower Fables - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)...
Rootabaga Stories - Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Stories - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga...
Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum - Matthew Arnold
Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. This poem draws upon the Tristam and Iseult legends: which were popular with contemporary readers. The poem...
