Legends & Fairy Tales

The Lost Princess

by George MacDonald Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Also known as "A Double Story" or "The Wise Woman."The story of two very spoiled girls, a princess and a peasant, who ar…

The Scottish Fairy Book

by Elizabeth W. Grierson Read by Nan Dodge 4.8
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious r…

Undine

by Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA 4.8
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

Korean Fairy Tales

by William Elliot Griffis Read by NoelBadrian 4.8
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…

The Prose Edda

by Snorri Sturleson Read by Expatriate 4.6
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 Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

by William Scott-Elliot Read by Rapunzelina 4.3
This volume contains two publications by W. Scott-Elliot, namely The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). A theosophist and…

Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children

by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
The brave warrior, Beowulf, comes to the aid of King Hrothgar when he hears that Grendel, a horrible monster, is terrorizing the inhabitants…

Old Testament Legends

by M. R. James Read by David Wales 4.4
M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are a…

Celtic Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, …

The Firelight Fairy Book

by Henry Beston Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of win…

The Wisdom of the Ancients

by Francis Bacon Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
"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…

Old Greek Stories

by James Baldwin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin invites listeners into the enchanting world of ancient Greek mythology, where legendary heroes embark on …

The Book of Werewolves

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring-Gould delves into the fascinating world of lycanthropy, exploring the myths and legends that have su…

In The Days of Giants

by Abbie Farwell Brown Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and p…

The Norwegian Fairy Book

by Klara Stroebe Read by Paul Harvey 4.9
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher f…

The Little Match Girl

by Hans Christian Andersen Read by Phil Chenevert 4.7
The Little Match Girl is a poignant tale by Hans Christian Andersen that captures the essence of hope and despair through the eyes of a youn…

Grimms' Fairy Tales

by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

Myths and Legends Around the World

by Various Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. Appropriate stories tell of …

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by Lyn Stanley 4.5
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in whi…

Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park

by James W. Schultz Read by David Wales 4.7
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 – 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the …

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