Legends & Fairy Tales
Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable
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Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
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Aesop
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…
Through the Looking-Glass (version 5 dramatic reading)
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Lewis Carroll
Sequel to Alice in Wonderland, this volume sees Alice travel through a mirror to a dream-world where she meets chess pieces and other curiou…
Metamorphoses
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists o…
The Adventures of Pinocchio (version 2)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Carlo Collodi
Do today's children still learn what a "marionette" is? The beloved story of Pinocchio may represent a last lingering picture of a…
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Hans Christian Andersen
A collection of eighteen fairy tales - some popular, some lesser known - by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen.(Summary by Gesine)
The Lilac Fairy Book
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Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although And…
The Red Fairy Book
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Andrew Lang
The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books.…
Alice in Wonderland (Drama)
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Lewis Carroll
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes…
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
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Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…
The Fairy Tales of Science
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John Cargill Brough
This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…
Popular Tales from the Norse
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Sir George Webbe Dasent
The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has be…
The Story of Peter Pan
Read by Phil Chenevert
J. M. Barrie
THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the …
The Snow Queen and Other Stories
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Hans Christian Andersen
This project features four longer stories by Hans Christian Andersen.Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 l…
The Magic World
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E. Nesbit
Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses - adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of sto…
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)
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Sophocles
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was…
Blackfeet Indian Stories
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George Bird Grinnell
The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skin…
The Gods of Mars (version 2)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant sav…
The Little Mermaid
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Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: "the little sea lady") is a very well known fairy tale by the Dani…
Japanese Fairy Tales
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Yei Theodora Ozaki
First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…