Legends & Fairy Tales
In The Days of Giants
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Abbie Farwell Brown
This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and p…
Fables de La Fontaine
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Jean de la Fontaine
Voici le quatrième livre des Fables de La Fontaine. Bien qu'écrites au XIIème siècle, l'Homme étant toujo…
ごん狐
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Nankichi Niimi
「ごん狐」は、新美南吉(1913-1943)が１８歳の時に「赤い鳥」に発表しました。度々、小学校の国語教科書に採用され、多くの日本人が知る童話です。一人ぼっちの「ごん」は、やはり、一人ぼっちになった「兵十」との交流を願います。しかし、「ごん」の期待に反して、悲劇的な結末を迎えます…
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold
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James Baldwin
Thirty More Famous Stories Retold, the sequel to the popular Fifty Famous Stories Retold, retells the stories of legendary people and mythol…
Once on a Time
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A. A. Milne
When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle …
Gargantua and Pantagruel
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François Rabelais
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…
Fables de La Fontaine
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Jean de la Fontaine
Voici le quatrième des douze livres des Fables de La Fontaine. Celles-ci datent du XVIIe siècle et sont lues par des lecteurs …
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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Oscar Wilde
A collection of five stories by Oscar Wilde, all incorporating his inimitable style and wit. Sometimes sweet and uplifting, sometimes caust…
Through Fairy Halls
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the third volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…
Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
The group of stories brought together in this volume differ from legends because they have, with one exception,no core fact at the centre, f…
Children's Short Works
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Librivox’s Children's Short Works Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales
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Charles Perrault
The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold…
Märchen von Charles Perrault
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Charles Perrault
Viele der Märchen von Charles Perrault sind sehr bekannt - allerdings unter dem Namen der Brüder Grimm, die sie vielleicht von der…
Kottō
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Lafcadio Hearn
Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collect…
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
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Alfred John Church
A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. T…
Viviane
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Paul Duval
« Comment, Viviane, la fille onduleuse aux crins d'or, courtisane galloise experte en félonie, des douze preux d'Arthur ayant &…
Fables de La Fontaine
Read by Jean Lambert
Jean de la Fontaine
Dans ce livre sixième comme dans tous les autres livres des Fables de La Fontaine, vous serez à même de constater la fin…
Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The stories we have read and loved but retold in words of one syllable to make it easier for young readers or those where English is a secon…
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories
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Hans Christian Andersen
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
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Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …