Legends & Fairy Tales
Folk-Lore and Legends
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Charles John Tibbits
Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasure…
A Knyght Ther Was
Read by Roger Melin
Robert F. Young
"But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewi…
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
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Richard Gordon Smith
Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes ev…
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy…
The Sea Lady
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H. G. Wells
The Sea Lady is a novel written by H. G. Wells. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson's Magazine before being published by…
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott, Anonymoustranslated By Jonathan Scott and William James McGlothlin
The third of four volumes of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in her…
An Arthurian Miscellany
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Various
A collection of works that explore the rich and evocative legend of King Arthur. The exploits of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table …
Aino Folk-Tales
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Basil Hall Chamberlain
Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of …
Children's Short Works
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 011: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
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…
Granny's Wonderful Chair
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Frances Browne
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book …
Australian Legendary Tales
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K. Langloh Parker
A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe,known among themselves as Noongahburrahs.
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Children's Short Works
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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…
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…
Rootabaga Stories
Read by Betsie Bush
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…
Children's Short Works
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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…