Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sir George Webbe Dasent - Popular Tales from the Norse

The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has been familiar from his earliest youth. They are Nursery Tales, in fact, of the...

thedingo and 36 more 17 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources,...

Clarica and 17 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Arthur Ransome - 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 domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

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E. M. Berens - Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome

This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)

Sibella Denton and 10 more 11 hours 24 minutes

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Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from one to one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. Nothing better was ever invented to tell to little folks who are...

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Louisa May Alcott - Flower Fables

Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)

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Nora Archibald Smith - Fairy Ring

The Fairy Ring , originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as «History of Jack the Giant-Killer», «The Frog...

Laurie Anne Walden and 28 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai») is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

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Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué - Undine

Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to gain a soul. It is an early German romance, which has been translated into...

Pete Williams Pittsburgh PA 3 hours 8 minutes

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John Henry Haaren - Famous Men of Greece

Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. (Summary by Laura...

Ed Meade and 9 more 4 hours 29 minutes

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George Bird Grinnell - Blackfeet Indian Stories

The Blackfeet were hunters, travelling from place to place on foot. They used implements of stone, wood, or bone, wore clothing made of skins, and lived in tents covered by hides. Dogs, their only tame animals, were...

Sibella Denton and 6 more 4 hours 2 minutes

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Joseph Jacobs - Celtic Fairy Tales

Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, or the dedication page, is the phrase: _SAY THIS /Three times, with your eyes...

Sibella Denton and 5 more 6 hours 27 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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