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Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading) - William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his patron, the Earl of Southampton (thought by some to be the beautiful youth to which many of the Sonnets are...
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859 - 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)...
Friendly Fairies - Johnny Gruelle
Friendly Fairies - Johnny Gruelle
- Author: Johnny Gruelle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Friendly Fairies is a popular book by Johnny Gruelle who is known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Listen to fifteen captivating stories which will carry away you and your children to the world of fairy tales. - Summary by ShiNeko...
Kriloff's Fables - Ivan KRYLOV
Kriloff's Fables - Ivan KRYLOV
- Author: Ivan KRYLOV
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Herein is a collection of 86 fables translated into English from the 201 written by Kriloff. Some of Kriloff's fables are translations from La Fontaine, but most are original. In some, the foibles of the Russian nobility can be seen. (Summary by...
Stories from the Arabian Nights - Laurence Housman
Stories from the Arabian Nights - Laurence Housman
- Author: Laurence Housman
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of her stories were meant to stave off her death and so we can expect a few to be not of the best quality. The six...
Kabumpo in Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Kabumpo in Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name is Kabumpo. He is very proud of his kingdom, his elegance and tends to be just the smallest bit pompous. On...
Myths That Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Myths That Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales - Frank R. Stockton
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingredients for entertaining stories for kids. - Summary by Carolin...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 001 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Librivox’s Children's Short Works Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02 - 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. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
The Mermaid's Message and Other Stories - Various
The Mermaid's Message and Other Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children and grown-ups will enjoy. Summary by Carolin...
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05 - Anonymous
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05 - 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...
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume Two - May Wentworth
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands Volume Two - May Wentworth
- Author: May Wentworth
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
High as the clouds are the mountains bold That tower in the glorious Land of Gold, And cañons dusky with twilight deep Where a thousand mystic shadows peep. There are vineyards graceful with trailing vine Rich in the wealth of the rosy wine, There...
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils - Selma Lagerlöf
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Price in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (Orig. Nils Holgerssons...
Everybody's Lonesome - Clara E. LAUGHLIN
Everybody's Lonesome - Clara E. LAUGHLIN
- Author: Clara E. LAUGHLIN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mother's advice, she reluctantly visits her Godmother in New York, who teaches Mary Alice a little homemade...
A Christmas Carol (version 05) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 05) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. But that's about to change. A visit from his deceased business partner sets in motion a night in which Scrooge...
The Patchwork Girl of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Patchwork Girl of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
An unlucky Munchkin boy named Ojo must travel around Oz gathering the ingredients for an antidote to the Liquid of Petrifaction which has turned his beloved uncle Unc Nunkie and the wife of the Liquid's creator into marble statues. Ojo is joined by...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275) - 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...
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks - William Elliot Griffis
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks - William Elliot Griffis
- Author: William Elliot Griffis
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A darling collection of Dutch fairy tales presented by William Griffis. Starting with The Entangled Mermaid and ending with Why the Stork Loves Holland, these 20 stories are all entertaining and well written. Children of all ages should love to hear...
The Celtic Twilight - William Butler Yeats
The Celtic Twilight - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where...
Robin Hood - J. Walker McSpadden
Robin Hood - J. Walker McSpadden
- Author: J. Walker McSpadden
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally Robin Hood and...
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03 - Anonymous
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The third of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in her - and therefore her life - by telling her tales in installments. - Summary by Gillian Hendrie...
The Faerie Queene Book 3 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 3 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
"The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie."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 a...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 010 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 010: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales - Julia KAVANAGH
The Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales - Julia KAVANAGH
- Author: Julia KAVANAGH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a little volume of fairy Tales by Irish novelists Bridget and Julia Kavanagh. The eleven stories are old-fashioned and original. - Summary by Carolin...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09 - Anonymous
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09 - 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. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Sylvie and Bruno (Dramatic Reading) - Lewis Carroll
Sylvie and Bruno (Dramatic Reading) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its 1893 second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. The novel has two main plots; one...
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen - A collection of something for everyone - the very popular stories, the less well-known stories and favorites, that both children and grownups can enjoy. (Summary by Neeru Iyer)...
Grimms' Fairy Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Grimms' Fairy Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark foreboding woods, you will find:...
The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun - Catulle MENDÈS
The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun - Catulle MENDÈS
- Author: Catulle MENDÈS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and adapted for an American audience by TJ Vivian. This collection contains some of the most well-known fairy tales, such...
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01 - 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. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes - DAṆḌIN
Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes - DAṆḌIN
- Author: DAṆḌIN
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated by the men themselves. These narratives are replete with accounts of demigods, ghosts, gamblers, intrigues...
The Book of Werewolves - Sabine Baring-Gould
The Book of Werewolves - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A survey of the myths and legends concerning lycanthropy from ancient times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by A. Gramour)...
English Fairy Tales - Flora Annie STEEL
English Fairy Tales - Flora Annie STEEL
- Author: Flora Annie STEEL
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a selection of the most well-known fairy tales told in England. It contains such very famous stories as Jack and the Beanstalk, and Little Red Riding-hood, but also some stories that are not included in every other collection of fairy tales....
The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Short-stories/fairy tales by H. C. Anderson, includes The Ice-maiden -- The Butterfly -- The Psyche -- The Snail and the Rose-tree The Ice-Maiden: Written toward the end of Hans Christian Andersen's career, "The Ice-Maiden" is the story of Rudy, a...
The Green Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Green 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...
Kabumpo in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Kabumpo in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Dear children: Do you like Elephants? Do you believe in Giants? And do you love all the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz? Well then you'll want to hear about the latest happenings in that delightful Kingdom. All are set forth in true Oz...
Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All - Edgar Dubs SHIMER
Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All - Edgar Dubs SHIMER
- Author: Edgar Dubs SHIMER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them may be new to you. We hope that you will enjoy listening to these stories just as much as Mr. Shimer's...
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women - George MacDonald
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A young man named Anodos experiences dream-like adventures in Fairy Land, where he meets tree-spirits, endures the presence of the overwhelming shadow, journeys to the palace of the fairy queen, and searches for the spirit of the earth. The story...
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Notorious pirates who are the scourge of the seven seas, and on land; ghost stories which scare voyagers in the jungles and the ice caps; two ships located in a fatal fight volleying broadsides as if their life depends upon it (which it does); and...
