Myths
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
Lucian's Dialogues
The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods are 15 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek…
The Wonder-Smith and His Son
This 1928 Newbery Honor book is a collection of fourteen Irish folktales about the Gubbaun Saor, a mythologized historical architect and smi…
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvi…
The Hag
The Hag is a haunting poem by 17th-century English poet Robert Herrick, capturing the eerie essence of Halloween. In this work, Herrick expl…
Rock A Bye Library
A book of short fables with morals. (Summary by DSayers)
The Poems of Madison Cawein
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …
Faust I
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…
Minutes To Midnight
Mythics... Creatures and beings of legend, possessing extraordinary abilities. Once thought of as merely stories, they've learned to blend i…
A Drama of Exile
In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradis…
On Passing Deadman’s Island
On Passing Deadman’s Island is a haunting poem by Thomas Moore that weaves together themes of nature, myth, and the supernatural. Set agains…
Orpheus with His Lute
In retelling the mythological story of Orpheus the musician, Winifred Hutchinson covers the singer's education by the nine Muses in Part 1, …
Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills
In this little book I have endeavoured to interweave with descriptions of the most picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills some of th…
Shakespeare's Ovid
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…
Lore of Proserpine
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one…
The Princess Pourquoi
Once upon a time, a princess was born, and a fairy cursed her with a mind: "She is a woman-child, and yet she shall think. She shall be…
A Tale Of Cader Idris
Our narrator, Bob, knows George Bowring from school days. Their lives, dreams and misfortunes are parallel until George marries the woman Bo…
The Frost Spirit
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Octo…
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…