Legends & Fairy Tales
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 12
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Fir-Tree Fairy Book
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Clifton Johnson
In this volume, Clifton Johnson has compiled his favourite fairy tales. We hear a lot of animals, because fairy tales with animals in them a…
The Tales of Mother Goose
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Charles Perrault
These stories were the original ones collected by Charles Perrault and published in French in 1696. You may have heard of some of them and …
The Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia
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A. G. Seklemian
Armenians trace their history back to before the time of the Babylonians and earliest recorded history - in fact, to Togarmah, a grandson of…
Uncle Wiggily's Story Book
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Howard R. Garis
Dear Children:This is a quite different book from any others you may have read about me. In this volume I have some adventures with real chi…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 020
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
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 Libr…
What Happened Then Stories
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Ruth O. Dyer
Have you ever wondered what happens after the story ended? Ruth O. Dyer answers that question using some of the best loved children stories…
Viking Tales (Version 2)
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Jennie Hall
The story follows the life of the Viking Harald from infancy to his crowning as King of Norway. It focuses on the Vikings' eagerness for adv…
Fairy Tales
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Hans Christian Andersen
This collection of fairy tales include many that you may never have heard of. Published in 1884, Andersen obviously enjoyed putting many un…
The Devil's Bridge
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary…
In Indian Tents
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Abby Langdon Alger
A collection of the legends and stories of North Eastern Indians "In the summer of 1882 and 1883, I was associated with Charles G. Lela…
The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 02
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Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott, Anonymoustranslated By Jonathan Scott and William James McGlothlin
The second of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in he…
Rock A Bye Library: A Book of Fables
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Unknown
A book of short fables with morals. (Summary by DSayers)
Friendly Fairies
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Johnny Gruelle
Friendly Fairies is a popular book by Johnny Gruelle who is known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy. Listen to fifteen captivat…
The Frost Spirit
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John Greenleaf Whittier
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octo…
More Celtic Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs
More fairy tales from the early days of the British Isles, collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. - Summary by bookworm360
Wet Magic (version 2)
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E. Nesbit
Are mermaids real? Well of course they are! Just ask the four very English children who, when on vacation by the sea, find out about one b…
The Magic Umbrella
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David Cory
David Cory who gave us the tales of Little Jack Rabbit, Puss in Boots, Jr., and Billy Bunny takes us on another journey with his Magic Umbre…
Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
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William Shakespeare
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
The Betrothal
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Maurice Maeterlinck
The adventures of Tyltyl and The Fairy Berylune. Of all the girls he knows, who does he love the most? Read on to find out. - Summary by Mi…