Legends & Fairy Tales
Folk-lore and Legends
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Charles John Tibbits
The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while …
Old-Fashioned Tales
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Variousandwilliam Patten and Various And William Patten
This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The storie…
Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
In LibriVox’s Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain fairy tales. This is a collection o…
The Singing Mouse Stories
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Emerson Hough
The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the wate…
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…
Legend Land
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Lyonesse
"Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by …
Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
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Jean de la Fontaine
This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories w…
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales
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Frank R. Stockton
This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingre…
The Crocodile
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a…
The White People
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
A young girl living in remote Scotland discovers she has a unique gift for seeing what others cannot. This ultimately hopeful and positive s…
The Ghosts' High Noon
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W. S. Gilbert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Ghosts' High Noon by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry HALLOWE'EN project for Oct…
The Three Mulla-mulgars
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Walter de la Mare and Walter De La Mare
Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonde…
Eastern Stories and Legends
Read by Max Hollway
Marie Louise Shedlock
A collection of ancient myths, legends and fairy-tales. Each story is a timeless adventure featuring a hero who is sometimes a man, animal o…
The Wind Boy
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Ethel Cook Eliot
A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…
The Train Dogs
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Train Dogs by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 6th, 20…
The Strange Story Book
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Leonora Blanche Lang
A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final…
Myths and Legends Around the World
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Various
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
A Selection from the Norse Tales
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Sir George Webbe Dasent
This is a collection of Norse folktales selected as being appropriate for children. They range from short pieces such as, "How One Wen…