Legends & Fairy Tales

Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes

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Daṇḍin



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…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin



This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

New Adventures of Alice

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John Rae



After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…

The Wanderings of Oisin

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William Butler Yeats



This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…

The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others

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Beatrix Potter



These are some of the wonderful little stories about animals written by Beatrix Potter. The disobedient little Peter who sneaks where he sh…

Puck of Pook's Hill (version 2)

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Rudyard Kipling



'Puck of Pook's Hill' is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods…

Little Wizard Stories of Oz (version 2)

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L. Frank Baum



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 …

Hero and Leander

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Christopher Marlowe



“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

A Knyght Ther Was

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Robert F. Young



"But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewi…

Folk-Lore and Legends: Scandinavian

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Charles John Tibbits



Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasure…

Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan

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Richard Gordon Smith



Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes ev…

The Sea Lady

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H. G. Wells



The Sea Lady is a novel written by H. G. Wells. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson's Magazine before being published by…

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)

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Oscar Wilde



Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy…

Canadian Wonder Tales

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Cyrus Macmillan



This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Iris…

An Arthurian Miscellany

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Various



A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table …

Aino Folk-Tales

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Basil Hall Chamberlain



Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of …

The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 03

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Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott, Anonymoustranslated By Jonathan Scott and William James McGlothlin



The third of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in her…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 011

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm



LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 011: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading)

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Frances Browne



Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book …

Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Picca…

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K. Langloh Parker



A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe,known among themselves as Noongahburrahs.

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