Legends & Fairy Tales
Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan
Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes ev…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Australian Legendary Tales
Australian Legendary Tales presents a captivating collection of Aboriginal folklore, showcasing the rich storytelling traditions of the Narr…
New Adventures of Alice
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Up One Pair of Stairs
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…
Stories from the Faerie Queene
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…
Märchen
Angelehnt an dänische, deutsche und griechische Sagen und historische Begebenheiten, dem Volksglauben verbunden und inspiriert von lite…
Personal Collection of Short Tales
This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. The…
The Wanderings of Oisin
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…
Die schwarze Spinne
Die schwarze Spinne ist eine Novelle von Jeremias Gotthelf aus dem Jahr 1842. Eingebettet in eine idyllisch angelegte Rahmenerzählung w…
Zanzibar Tales
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…
Stories from the Arabian Nights
Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of …
Gawayne and the Green Knight
Published in 1903, Gawayne and the Green Knight is a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th-century verse roma…
Twilight Land
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…
Histoires ou Contes du temps passé
Cette édition de 1742 nous rapporte les contes de ma mère l'Oye adaptés par Charles Perrault et agrémenté…
The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes
"Because she used to herd Goats in the high places and the rocky places, she went by the name of Girl-go-with-the-Goats. But that was n…
The Angels of Mons
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…
Tijl Uilenspiegel in Vlaanderen
Volgens de legende was Uilenspiegel een deugniet die vrij als een vogel in de zestiende eeuw door de Nederlanden trok en iedereen voor de ge…
Das Rübezahlbuch
Viele wollen ihn gesehen haben, aber wirklich gesehen hat ihn noch keiner - Rübezahl. Neun Abenteuer des geheimnisvollen Berggeists aus…