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A Drama of Exile - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Drama of Exile - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness'. The bizarre, lyrical scenes that follow powerfully describe the grief and guilt of...
Old Peter's Russian Tales - Arthur Ransome
Old Peter's Russian Tales - Arthur Ransome
- Author: Arthur Ransome
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome...
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
- Author: Hermann Gunkel
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance...
Myths and Legends of All Nations - Logan Marshall
Myths and Legends of All Nations - Logan Marshall
- Author: Logan Marshall
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This excellent book contains many great stories from the various mythologies of man throughout the ages....
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Edition - Aesop
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Edition - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds more have been passed down to us over the centuries. The man credited with writing them, Aesop, was an Ancient...
The Little People of the Snow - William Cullen Bryant
The Little People of the Snow - William Cullen Bryant
- Author: William Cullen Bryant
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Filled with the exuberance of youth and the thrill of discovery, Eva embarks on a Winter walk across snowy fields venturing farther and longer than she had promised her mother. Enticed by a friendly playmate along the way and driven by an insatiable...
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The brave warrior, Beowulf, comes to the aid of King Hrothgar when he hears that Grendel, a horrible monster, is terrorizing the inhabitants of Hart Hall. Beowulf heroically battles Grendel, the Water Witch, and a fierce dragon. (Summary by Laura...
The Brown Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Brown Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. (Summary by...
Tales of Old Japan - Lord Redesdale
Tales of Old Japan - Lord Redesdale
- Author: Lord Redesdale
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Tales of Old Japan by Lord Redesdale is a collection of short stories focusing on Japanese life of the Edo period (1803 - 1868). It contains a number of classic Japanese stories, fairy tales, and other folklore; as well as Japanese sermons and...
Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories - P. H. EMERSON
Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories - P. H. EMERSON
- Author: P. H. EMERSON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception of the French story, they were told me and I took them down at the time. In most cases I have done but little...
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes - Pádraic Colum
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes - Pádraic Colum
- Author: Pádraic Colum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was not the name that she herself called herself. She called herself Maid-alone..."So begins Padriac Colum's...
The Green Forest Fairy Book - Loretta Ellen Brady
The Green Forest Fairy Book - Loretta Ellen Brady
- Author: Loretta Ellen Brady
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. - Summary by Carolin...
The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats
The Wanderings of Oisin - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the isles, Oison married the beautiful...
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1 - Unknown
Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1 - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a culture through its folklore. It...
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland - Anna Matlack Richards
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland - Anna Matlack Richards
- Author: Anna Matlack Richards
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this unofficial sequel to Alice in Wonderland, a different Alice, a young American girl named Alice Lee (a huge fan of the original book), stumbles upon a magical door that leads to Wonderland. There, she meets familiar faces, like the Cheshire...
Household Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Household Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three Black Princesses, and The Story of...
St Andrews Ghost Stories - William Thomas Linskill
St Andrews Ghost Stories - William Thomas Linskill
- Author: William Thomas Linskill
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of that name. The author was famous in his time for his interest in ghostly apparitions. ( David Wales)...
Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children - Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
Stories of King Arthur's Knights Told to the Children - Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
- Author: Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of Arthurian tales retold for children. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
Mother Goose in Prose - L. Frank Baum
Mother Goose in Prose - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves. There are others which are mere suggestions, leaving...
A Picture Book Of Merry Tales - Anonymous
A Picture Book Of Merry Tales - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Forty European folk tales. Caveats: 1. Some of these stories are not suitable for young children. 2. In two stories (10 and 25) appear the nineteenth century’s almost-reflexive Jew-stereotype and anti-Semitism. - Summary by david wales...
The Faerie Queene Book 5 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 5 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Fifth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Artegall or of Ivstice.This masterpiece was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 020 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 020 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 020: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1 - Sir Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1 - Sir Thomas Malory
- Author: Sir Thomas Malory
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, "the death of Arthur") is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French and English Arthurian romances. The book...
Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories - Edith Howes
Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories - Edith Howes
- Author: Edith Howes
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of three short stories about fairies, complete with good moral lessons (as every fairy tale should be). (Summary by Claire Goget)...
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
- Author: Edric Vredenberg
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed - Cenydd Morus
The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed - Cenydd Morus
- Author: Cenydd Morus
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Cenydd Morus's (Kenneth Morris) imaginative retelling of tales from the Mabinogion, the great work of Welsh literature first recorded in the 12th-13th century. Written while he was working for the Theosophical Society in California, Morris's version...
Manx Fairy Tales - Sophia Morrison
Manx Fairy Tales - Sophia Morrison
- Author: Sophia Morrison
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of fairy tales regarding myths and legends of the Isle of Man. Sophia was considered one of the key figures of the Manx cultural revival. - Summary by afutterer...
The Faerie Queene Book 2 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 2 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as...
Canadian Fairy Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
Canadian Fairy Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
- Author: Cyrus Macmillan
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which their fancy delights to range, and...
The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables - Francis Bacon
The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Published before 1800
"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding the poets’ fables which the poets themselves did in inventing them; and it is true that if I had a mind to vary and...
Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse - Various
Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry / Short works
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second 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,...
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2) - Charles Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales (version 2) - Charles Perrault
- Author: Charles Perrault
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in a unique way that keeps the flavor of the original French of Perrault but adds a...
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume One - May Wentworth
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume One - May Wentworth
- Author: May Wentworth
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
California, both old and new, is the scene of these fairy stories. They are unique tales written with with a pleasant tinge of romance about them to fix yourr attention, and a touch of pathos that goes to the heart, to make them good and happy. -...
The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving - Ada M. Skinner
The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving - Ada M. Skinner
- Author: Ada M. Skinner
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
From the Introduction: "Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the child’s attention to the beauty...
The Maker of Rainbows - Richard le Gallienne
The Maker of Rainbows - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of Fairy Tales from Richard Le Gallienne....
The Royal Book of Oz (version 3) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Royal Book of Oz (version 3) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Of course, we all knew the Scarecrow was a very fine fellow, but surely we never guessed he ascended from an emperor. Most of us descend from our ancestors, but the Scarecrow really ASCENDED.The Scarecrow had a most exciting and adventurous time on...
The Tin Woodman of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Tin Woodman of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter. The Tin Woodman, whose real name is Nick Chopper, seeks to find the Munchkin...
Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable - J.C. Gorham
Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable - J.C. Gorham
- Author: J.C. Gorham
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The well known and delightful tale of Alice in Wonderland but retold in simpler language. All the characters are there, even the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter. Note that even though the title says 'words of one syllable', there are quite a few two...
The Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2) - Carlo Collodi
The Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2) - Carlo Collodi
- Author: Carlo Collodi
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a world not dominated by plastic or electronic toys.Pinocchio is a puppet made from a piece of wood that curiously could...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy and imaginative treatment; it is a reaction against the purely imitative character of modern art.” His Fairy...
