Myths
A House of Pomegranates
Read by NoelBadrian
Oscar Wilde
A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. This book contains four tales: 1. &quo…
コーカサスの禿鷹
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Yoshio Toyoshima
豊島与志雄 (1890-1955) は、『レ・ミゼラブル』や、『ジャン・クリストフ』の翻訳で知られている。しかし、多数の児童文学の作品を書いている。多作で、青空文庫には、３００タイトル以上が登録されている。『コーカサスの禿鷹』は、禿鷹が一番高い山を探し求める話である。最後に、高い…
Favole di Jean de La Fontaine
Read by Paolo Fedi
Jean de la Fontaine
Nei 12 volumi delle "Favole" (1669 - 1693) Jean de La Fontaine rinnovò la tradizione esopica, rappresentando la commedia um…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
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Songling Pu
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii
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David Kalakaua
A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of …
Phaedra
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Jean Racine
In the court of Louis XIV, adaptations of Greek tragedies were very popular. This play, heavily influenced by Euripides' Hippolytus, deals w…
Finnish Legends
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R. Eivind
One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family …
Legends of Norseland
Read by Ryan Williams
Mara L. Pratt
Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…
Trésor des Fèves et Fleur des Pois
Read by Ezwa
Charles Nodier
C'est ainsi que commence ce conte de fées : « Il y avait une fois un pauvre homme et une pauvre femme qui étaient bien v…
The Norwegian Fairy Book
Read by Paul Harvey
Klara Stroebe
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher f…
The Strange Story Book
Read by Linda Andrus
Leonora Blanche Lang
This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stori…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache" übersetzt v…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres.
Gawayne and the Green Knight
Read by Betsie Bush
The Gawain Poet, Charlton Miner Lewis, The Gawain Poettranslated Bycharlton Miner Lewis, The Gawain Poettranslated By Charlton Miner Lewis and The Gawain Poettranslated By Charlton Miner Lewis
Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telli…
The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it c…
The Phoenix and the Carpet
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E. Nesbit and Honoré de Balzac
Cyril, Robert, Anthea and Jane need a new carpet for the nursery, but it turns out to be a magic carpet containing a phoenix egg! They disco…
Fairy Tales from South Africa
Read by NoelBadrian
Mrs. E. J. Bourhill, Mrs. E.J. Bourhill and Mrs. E. J. Bourhill
The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele people) and Zululand in So…
The Story of Robin Hood
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Bertha Evangeline Bush
"He was brave and kind and merry always, and all the English people—except England's oppressors—loved him with all their hearts and del…
Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa
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Various
Diese Sammlung umfasst 14 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Warum das Meerwaßer salzig ist" und "Osten…