Legends & Fairy Tales
Old Peter's Russian Tales
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public …
Grimms' Fairy Tales
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…
The Book of Werewolves
The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould delves into the fascinating world of lycanthropy, exploring the myths and legends that have su…
The Scottish Fairy Book
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious r…
The Odyssey for Boys and Girls
A retelling of the adventures of Ulysses, including his adventures both the Cyclops and Circe, as he journeys home to his home of Ithaca. T…
The Prose Edda
Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Ice…
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then …
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
This story of Santa Claus veers away slightly from the traditional stories of his beginnings. L. Frank Baum creates a world of fantasy that …
A House Of Pomegranates
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prin…
Old Testament Legends
M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are a…
The Wisdom of the Ancients
"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding th…
Märchen
Hauffs Märchen entstanden in der Spätromantik. Der erste Band mit der Rahmenerzählung “Die Karawane” zeichnet sich durch hohe…
The Wonder Clock
"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…
Zwei Märchen
Die RegentrudeEinen so heißen Sommer hat es schon seit hundert Jahren nicht mehr gegeben. Das Gras vertrocknet auf den Wiesen und das …
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in whi…
Korean Fairy Tales
Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tel…
Märchen
Bei diesem letzten Märchen-Almanach von Hauff sind die Märchen:* Die Sage vom Hirschgulden* Das kalte Herz* Saids Schicksale* Die …
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …
The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book
"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real…
The Age of Chivalry
Thomas Bulfinch explains the his work is "an attempt to tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amus…