Myths
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. Appropriate stories tell of …
More English Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs
"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…
Twilight Land
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Howard Pyle
The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Al…
Zanzibar Tales
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George W. Bateman
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…
Children's Short Works
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Various
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 Libr…
Fairy Tales from Brazil
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Elsie Spicer Eells
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…
The Book of Elves and Fairies
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Frances Jenkins Olcott
Lots of stories and poems about elves, faeries and other wonderful wee folk. All read for you by LibriVox people who love them so what more …
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…
The Enchanted Castle
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Hartwell James and Howard E. Altemus
Every boy and girl—and for that matter every man and woman, too—rejoices when the winter snows have vanished and the earth once more puts on…
Mother’s Nursery Tales
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Katharine Pyle
Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
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L. Frank Baum
This wonderful children’s short story tells all about the youth, manhood and old age of Santa Claus and how he became immortal. (Introductio…
A New Alice in the Old Wonderland
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Anna Matlack Richards
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)…
The Magical Mimics in Oz
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Jack Snow
The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking i…
Stories from the Faerie Queene
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Mary Macleod
The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but littl…
Welsh Fairy Tales
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William Elliot Griffis
This is a collection of delightful tales that explore the uniqueness of the Welsh people, Welsh heroes, Welsh countryside, Welsh animals and…
Handy Mandy in Oz
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Ruth Plumly Thompson
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…
A Book of Fairy Tales
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Sabine Baring-Gould
This is a collection of fairy tales, retold by Sabine Baring-Gould. The collection contains such well-known stories as Cinderella and the Be…
The Key of Gold
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Joseph Baudis
Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roo…
French Mediaeval Romances
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Marie De France
The tales included in this little book of translations are derived mainly from the "Lays" of Marie de France. I do not profess the…
Children's Short Works
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Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 003: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…