Legends & Fairy Tales
Children's Short Works
Discover a delightful assortment of tales in Children's Short Works, a collection curated by the renowned brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. …
Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…
The Children's Wonder Book
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…
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes ev…
Hero and Leander
“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…
Myths And Legends Of British North America
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…
Nibelungenlied
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Little House in the Fairy Wood
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…
Fairy Tales
This is a collection of international fairy tales clocking in at 5-15 minutes apiece, suitable for children's winter cocoa breaks, or other …
The Mermaid's Message
This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children …
Indian Fairy Tales
Indian Fairy Tales is a captivating anthology that brings together a rich tapestry of stories from India's diverse folklore. Compiled by Jos…
The Giant-Killer
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 Reign of King Oberon
In all the annals of Fairyland nothing is more wonderful—and the annals are found in many hundreds of volumes—than that chapter which tells …
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of …
The Indian Fairy Book
These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians live…
Psyche
This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life. It is instead a classical tale based on the ancient story of Psyche…
Seven Autumn Leaves From Fairyland
Seven original fairy tales . . ."Now for the stories you promised us.""Well, how many shall there be?""O, seven, on…
Outa Karel’s Stories
Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, Geor…