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The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Match Girl - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a recording of seven immortal and delightful fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen. The Little Match Girl is of course the first, followed by The Swineherd, The Real Princess, The Leap Frog, The Elderbush, The Bell and finally, The...
Through the Looking-Glass (version 5 dramatic reading) - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass (version 5 dramatic reading) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Sequel to Alice in Wonderland, this volume sees Alice travel through a mirror to a dream-world where she meets chess pieces and other curious characters. (Summary by David Goldfarb) Cast Narrator: David Goldfarb Alice: Miss Avarice The White...
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights - Sir Thomas Malory
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights - Sir Thomas Malory
- Author: Sir Thomas Malory
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book—now long out of print—which was written by me thirty-five years ago under the initials J.T.K.In acceding to their request I wish to say that the book as now...
Indian Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
Indian Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Humorous Fiction
This book is a fine collection of Indian fairy tales, some are folklore, some are from the Jataka tales, and some from panchatantra. (Summary by sidhu177)...
Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as well as some which are not quite as well-known. The translation is adapted for American readership and in...
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
- Author: Carlo Collodi
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the wonderful story of Pinocchio, the puppet who must learn many lessons before he can become a real boy. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he dreamed of becoming a real boy but strays from the path of...
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Author: Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian legends about Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, and the search for the Holy...
Strange Pages from Family Papers - Thomas Firminger THISELTON-DYER
Strange Pages from Family Papers - Thomas Firminger THISELTON-DYER
- Author: Thomas Firminger THISELTON-DYER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be mentioned the famous ‘dead hand,’ which was, in years past, kept at Bryn Hall, Lancashire… Thus the case is...
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Six stores of OZ and it's wonderful inhabitants, told by the official Historian of Oz, L. Frank Baum. Lots of adventure here!! Dorothy and her little dog Toto get into lots of trouble; Ozma is tripped and falls into the water, the Tin Woodman falls...
In Indian Tents - Abby Langdon ALGER
In Indian Tents - Abby Langdon ALGER
- Author: Abby Langdon ALGER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of the legends and stories of North Eastern Indians "In the summer of 1882 and 1883, I was associated with Charles G. Leland in the collection of the material for his book The Algonquin Legends of New England, published in 1884. I found...
Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch - Eva Katherine GIBSON
Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch - Eva Katherine GIBSON
- Author: Eva Katherine GIBSON
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the South Dakota prairie, within sight of the Black Hills. Her father is a widower and prospects for gold there; Annie lives at home with her grandmother and the servants, Marthy Stubbs and Pete...
The Golden Goose Book (version 2) - L. Leslie Brooke
The Golden Goose Book (version 2) - L. Leslie Brooke
- Author: L. Leslie Brooke
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Here are four delightful fairy tales that have fascinated children and adults for centuries. Several, such as The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs are well known and can be listened to with delight as each remembered and beloved part is come...
The Legends of Charlemagne - Thomas BULFINCH
The Legends of Charlemagne - Thomas BULFINCH
- Author: Thomas BULFINCH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) explains the his work is "an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient authorities, so...
The Firelight Fairy Book - Henry Beston
The Firelight Fairy Book - Henry Beston
- Author: Henry Beston
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of wings, and looking up startled from his book, he discovered the Fairy Goldenwand standing close by. "Are you...
The Three Mulla-mulgars - Walter De la Mare
The Three Mulla-mulgars - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonderstone for protection, and tells them to follow their father. They embark on a journey of fantastical...
Alice in Wonderland (Drama) - Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland (Drama) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Comedy
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes through the looking glass and encounters a variety of strange and wonderful creatures from favorite scenes...
Violet: A Fairy Story - Caroline Snowden GUILD
Violet: A Fairy Story - Caroline Snowden GUILD
- Author: Caroline Snowden GUILD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A charming fairytale -- with realistic touches -- from the mid-19th Century.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Strange Story Book (version 2) - Leonora Blanche LANG
The Strange Story Book (version 2) - Leonora Blanche LANG
- Author: Leonora Blanche LANG
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical
This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stories and he had edited them before his demise. It is a collection of stories that are a bit different than the Fairy...
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault - Charles Perrault
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault - Charles Perrault
- Author: Charles Perrault
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales.(Summary by A.L. Gramour)...
The Aesop for Children - Aesop
The Aesop for Children - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short works
A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the illustrations at: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19994. (Summary by Jill Engle)...
A Book of Fairy-Tale Bears - Clifton JOHNSON
A Book of Fairy-Tale Bears - Clifton JOHNSON
- Author: Clifton JOHNSON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Bears make an appearance in so many fairy tales and fables, it is difficult to imagine a fairy-tale world without them. However, in most of those fairy tales, the bear is just a side-character. In this volume, Clifton Johnson has collected 18...
Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice - Homer
Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice - Homer
- Author: Homer
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and traditionally attributed to Homer but...
The Fairy Ring - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Fairy Ring - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as "History of Jack the Giant-Killer", "The Frog Prince","Rumpel-stilts-ken", and "Snow-white and Rose-red",...
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller - Fanny COE
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller - Fanny COE
- Author: Fanny COE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe. They are mostly short and are fun to read and tell to children and most...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 004 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 004: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
History of the Britons - NENNIUS
History of the Britons - NENNIUS
- Author: NENNIUS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, and embellisher, of historic characters and events; but his book is notable as one of the earliest that...
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - C. J. Dennis
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse novels ever published in...
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights - Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Masterful artist, illustrator, and storyteller Howard Pyle brings new life to the legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. The first in Pyle's series of four books about King Arthur, this volume takes readers to the very beginning...
The Shakespeare Story-Book - Mary MACLEOD
The Shakespeare Story-Book - Mary MACLEOD
- Author: Mary MACLEOD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book contains many of Shakespeare's most famous plays, retold for children. - Summary by kathrinee...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 002 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Wilde's collection of fairytales has delighted both children and adults since it was first published in 1888. It contains five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The...
Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse - Tom HOOD
Fairy Realm: A Collection Of The Favourite Old Tales Told in Verse - Tom HOOD
- Author: Tom HOOD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 - 1874). The tales are; The Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Hop o' my Thumb. Summary by Noel...
Favorite Fairy Tales - Various
Favorite Fairy Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book of favorite fairy tales was compiled and illustrated by Peter Newell. it includes Jack The Giant Killer; Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty; Little Red Riding Hood; Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Ugly Duckling, Beauty and the Beast, Snow...
Thais - Anatole France
Thais - Anatole France
- Author: Anatole France
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The fourth century ascetic Paphnuce, journeys from his remote desert hermitage to urban Alexandria determined to locate the stunningly beautiful and libertine actress, Thais. He earnestly desires that she convert to Christianity. Gaining an audience...
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson - Sæmund Sigfusson
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson - Sæmund Sigfusson
- Author: Sæmund Sigfusson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this work both the Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson are presented, and...
Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) - Howard R. Garis
Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The adventures of two little pig boys and their mom and dad. "Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, in the days when there were fairies and giants and all things like that, there lived in a little house, on the edge of a wood, a family of...
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children - Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children - Charles Kingsley
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the...
Handy Mandy in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Handy Mandy in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in her fourteen or so years' experience had she been blown up by a mountain spring. But there comes, in every...
The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales - George MacDonald
The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
George MacDonald claimed that he did not write for children, but for the child-like. Some of his longer works are clearly intended for adults, and this fantastic fiction influenced later writers such as G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S....
The Magic of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Magic of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the second to last book in the OZ series that Baum actually wrote himself before he passed away. "A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and...