Myths
The Flint Heart
Read by David Wales
Eden Phillpotts
The flint heart is a stone of heart shape, forged in prehistoric times, that changes whoever owns it into a wicked person. The story of the …
St Andrews Ghost Stories
Read by David Wales
William Thomas Linskill
Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of t…
The Scottish Fairy Book
Read by Nan Dodge
Elizabeth W. Grierson
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious r…
The Indian Story Book
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Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has re…
Dot and Tot of Merryland
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L. Frank Baum
Dot and Tot of Merryland is a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum. After Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, he wrote this story about the advent…
The Royal Book of Oz (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Ruth Plumly Thompson
"Of course, we all knew the Scarecrow was a very fine fellow, but surely we never guessed he ascended from an emperor. Most of us desce…
The Angels of Mons
Read by R. S. Steinberg
Arthur Machen
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…
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey and Other Stories of Pirates
Read by Joseph DeNoia
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Notorious pirates who are the scourge of the seven seas, and on land; ghost stories which scare voyagers in the jungles and the ice caps; tw…
The Fairy Ring
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites…
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
Johnny Gruelle
As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!The same Raggedy Ann w…
Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa"
Read by Jothi Tharavant
Sir Edwin Arnold
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The…
Korean Fairy Tales
Read by NoelBadrian
William Elliot Griffis
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 Old Old Fairy Tales
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Laura Valentine
"Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms..." So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may als…
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
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Gertrude Landa
"My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general…
Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes
Read by sid
Daṇḍin
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…
Eskimo Folk-Tales
Read by Expatriate
Knud Rasmussen
Quote:"No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Esk…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton, William James Mcglothlin and Anonymoustranslated By Richard Francis Burton
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…
New Adventures of Alice
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John Rae
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,…
The Wanderings of Oisin
Read by Nathan
William Butler Yeats
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…