Legends & Fairy Tales

Folk-lore and Legends

by Charles John Tibbits Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors …

Everybody's Lonesome

by Clara E. Laughlin Read by Bridget Gaige 4.4
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mothe…

The Giant-Killer

by Charlotte Maria Tucker Read by Lynne T 4.3
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when…

The Demi-Gods

by James Stephens Read by Joe Bergin 4.4
In this memorialized Irish tale, 3 huge winged demi-gods (part god/part human) have descended to earth to experience human existence. They e…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry

by William Patten Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

The Heroic Life and Exploits of Siegfried the Dragon Slayer

by William James McGlothlin Read by Phil Schempf 4.4
This is the prequel of the Nibelungenlied. It tells the tale of Siegfried as a young man when he sets forth to earn a name for himself so h…

The Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun

by Catulle Mendès Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and ad…

The Giant Crab

by W.H.D. Rouse and W. H. D. Rouse Read by David Wales 4.5
This is the first collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. There is a second entitled The Talking Thrush (LibriVox audio…

Children's Short Works

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Discover a delightful assortment of tales in Children's Short Works, a collection curated from the timeless stories of Jacob and Wilhelm Gri…

Miss Santa Claus of the Pullman

by Annie Fellows Johnston Read by Linette Geisel 4.7
We all know that Santa Claus has a large family in which to help him in the delivery of presents, peace, and good cheer. So what would you d…

The Angels of Mons

by Arthur Machen Read by R. S. Steinberg 4
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at…

Zauberlinda, the Wise Witch

by Eva Katherine Gibson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Annie Elfrida McLane lives in a little brown house of the South Dakota prairie, within sight of the Black Hills. Her father is a widower and…

Children's Short Works

by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Discover a delightful assortment of enchanting tales in Children's Short Works by the renowned brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. This collec…

Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

by Edgar Dubs Shimer Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them…

Christ Legends

by Selma Lagerlöf Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
These are beautiful little stories about Christmas from the Swedish storyteller Selma Lagerlöf. As she explains in the first story, th…

The Book of Stories for the Storyteller

by Fanny Coe and Fanny E. Coe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, bro…

Stories from the Faerie Queene

by Mary Macleod Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but littl…

Life and Death

by Henryk Sienkiewicz Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar with his work.…

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