Myths
Stories from Pentamerone
Read by Joy Chan
Giambattista Basile
This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stori…
The Fall of the Nibelungs
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Unknowntranslated Bymargaret Armour, Translated Bymargaret Armour and Unknowntranslated By Margaret Armour
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied&q…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 013
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Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 013: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Irish Fairy Tales
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James Stephens
Collection of Irish Fairy Tales set in a wooded, Medieval Ireland filled with larger-than-life hunters, warriors, kings, and fairies - Summa…
Strange Pages from Family Papers
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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…
Cossack Fairy Tales
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Robert Nisbet Bain
This is a volume of fairy tales and folk tales from the Cossack people, compiled and translated by Robert Nisbet Bain. The tales are special…
English Fairy Tales
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Flora Annie Steel
This is a selection of the most well-known fairy tales told in England. It contains such very famous stories as Jack and the Beanstalk, and …
Rootabaga Stories
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Carl Sandburg
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a s…
Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable
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J.C. Gorham
The well known and delightful tale of Alice in Wonderland but retold in simpler language. All the characters are there, even the Cheshire C…
Children's Short Works, Vol. 006
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 006: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 2
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
This is the second book in a twelve volume series, and highlights myths and legendary heroes from around the world, from Ancient Greece to S…
Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen
This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as …
Twilight Land
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Howard Pyle
The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Al…
Zanzibar Tales
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George W. Bateman
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…
More English Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs
"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 01
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. Appropriate stories tell of …
Children's Short Works, Vol. 002
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Various
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Fairy Tales from Brazil
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Elsie Spicer Eells
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…
The Enchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland
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Hartwell James and Howard E. Altemus
Every boy and girl—and for that matter every man and woman, too—rejoices when the winter snows have vanished and the earth once more puts on…