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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

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Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Josh Kibbey and 11 more 10 hours 42 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

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M. R. James - Old Testament Legends Being Stories Out Of Some Of The Less-Known Apocryphal Books Of The Old Testament

M R James was a well regarded English scholar who studied the medieval period (he also wrote great ghost stories!). Apocryphal books are ancient literatures about biblical events and characters but these books are not...

David Wales 3 hours 25 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2)

To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 32 minutes

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Mark Twain - Mysterious Stranger

Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story...

Patrick79 5 hours 30 minutes

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Mermaid's Message and Other Stories

This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children and grown-ups will enjoy. Summary by Carolin

BettyB and 16 more 3 hours 11 minutes

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Mrs. E.J. Bourhill - Fairy Tales from South Africa

The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele people) and Zululand in South Africa. The authors, Mrs. E. J. Bourhill and Mrs. J. B. Drake, or more...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 51 minutes

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Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany

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Rudolf Baumbach - Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany

Gertrude Schottenfels has collected and arranged eleven original tales from Germany in this volume. Ms Schottenfels alternates between stories written by Richard von Volkmann and Rudolf Baumbach, two authors active in...

Greg Giordano and 9 more 2 hours 32 minutes

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Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

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Edgar Dubs Shimer - Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them may be new to you. We hope that you will enjoy listening to these stories...

Matt Bounds and 17 more 4 hours 36 minutes

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Elizabeth W. Grierson - Scottish Fairy Book

This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious region under the sea, «far below the abode of fishes,» where the Mermaids and...

Nan Dodge 6 hours 34 minutes

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Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Old Fashioned Fairy Tales

Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imagination, character, and leave a strong moral when finished, she blends humor...

Joseph Jones and 19 more 3 hours 20 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Ada M. Skinner - Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgiving

From the Introduction: «Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest or reveal certain facts which stimulate a spirit of investigation and attract the...

Larry Wilson and 15 more 6 hours 56 minutes

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G. K. Chesterton - Ballad of the White Horse (Version 3)

This epic poem is about Alfred the Great's defense of Christian England against the pagan Viking invaders. The decisive battle is fought in sight of a white horse mark made on a hill, after which the poem is named. As...

Robin Lamb 1 hour 42 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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