Legends & Fairy Tales

The Fisherman and His Soul

by Oscar Wilde Read by Phil Chenevert 4.1
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with…

Folk-lore and Legends

by Charles John Tibbits Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors …

The Demi-Gods

by James Stephens Read by Joe Bergin 4.4
In this memorialized Irish tale, 3 huge winged demi-gods (part god/part human) have descended to earth to experience human existence. They e…

The Little House in the Fairy Wood

by Ethel Cook Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature…

Personal Collection of Short Tales

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Read by Carmie 4.5
This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. The…

Everybody's Lonesome

by Clara E. Laughlin Read by Bridget Gaige 4.4
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 mothe…

Up One Pair of Stairs

by Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

by William James McGlothlin Read by Phil Schempf 4.4
This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so h…

The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun

by Catulle Mendès Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and ad…

The Giant-Killer

by Charlotte Maria Tucker Read by Lynne T 4.3
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

The Children's Wonder Book

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
This is a wild mix of different children's stories by different authors. All lof the stories are original, and some of them use a well-known…

The Lavender Dragon

by Eden Phillpotts Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
A well meaning dragon steals lonely humans to populate his version of paradise. A knight-errant comes to the rescue, but finds this terribl…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

by Howard Pyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Trist…

Mongan's Frenzy

by James Stephens Read by Michele Fry 4.5
James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…

The Santa Claus Story Book

by Unknown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.9
This is a collection of fairy tales. The first story is a Christmas story in verse, and of course the Christmas holidays are the best time f…

Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch

by Eva Katherine Gibson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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…

Children's Short Works

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Discover a delightful assortment of enchanting tales in Children's Short Works by the renowned brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This collec…

Myths And Legends Of British North America

by Katharine Berry Judson Read by David Wales 4.7
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…

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