Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Alfred John Church - Iliad for Boys and Girls

Alfred J. Church wrote many books looking at classical literature, but is especially well known for his re-telling of classic books in a style so that younger readers may follow the story. The Iliad for Boys and...

Lizzie Driver 4 hours 23 minutes

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William H. Barker - West African Folk Tales

A collection of folk tales mostly centred around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as either a spider, a human or a combination of both. Thus many of the stories...

Lizzie Driver and 11 more 2 hours 36 minutes

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Joseph Jacobs - English Fairy Tales

A collection of traditional English fairy tales. (description by Joy Chan)

Joy Chan 5 hours 35 minutes

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Lyonesse - Legend Land Volume 1 & 2

«Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by LYONESSE» (from the subtitle; Lyonesse was the pseudonym for George Basil Barham).

Esther and 13 more 2 hours 12 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Lilac Fairy Book

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's «Coloured» Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of...

ML Cohen and 18 more 9 hours 47 minutes

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Thomas Bulfinch - Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes: The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry, and Legends of Charlemagne. This is...

Justin S Barrett and 26 more 14 hours 54 minutes

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Aeschylus - Oresteia

The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus,...

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Unknown - Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its preface implies, this collection is intended to give an unadulterated view of a...

Maria Celano and 18 more 3 hours 6 minutes

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L. Frank Baum - 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 surrounds Santa Claus's life. Orphaned at an infant he is found by the nymph...

Kristin LeMoine 3 hours 27 minutes

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Joseph Baudis - Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales

Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roots) of well known fairy tales such as “The Brave Little Taylor” and “Beauty...

Maria Celano and 8 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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Carl Sandburg - Rootabaga Stories

Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created...

Betsie Bush 3 hours 13 minutes

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - 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 fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark...

Chris Vee and 31 more 10 hours 32 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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