Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Cyrus Macmillan - Canadian Fairy Tales

Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which...

R.J. Siva and 17 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Richard Wilson - Indian Story Book

Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has retold them in English, in an effort to showcase to young English-speaking...

Anusha Iyer and 4 more 6 hours 42 minutes

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E. Nesbit - Wet Magic

A book about children who find magic in every day life… and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Of course you probably know these...

Phil Chenevert 5 hours 48 minutes

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Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Songling Pu - Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, 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...

Availle and 19 more 12 hours 6 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short stories, and also quite a few songs and poems. Each tale is tagged with what...

Kyle Van DeGlast 3 hours 9 minutes

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Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Homer - Homeric Hymns, Epigrams, and The Battle of Frogs and Mice

Homeric Hymns are thirty-three poems each paying homage to a certain Greek god. Only a few of the poems are more than 250 lines while the rest are about a dozen lines each. They are written in Homeric style and...

Arthur Krolman 3 hours 7 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of British North America

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Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of British North America

[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning of the Newness of Things. Nothing was too large or too small to come within...

David Wales 3 hours 43 minutes

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Johann Karl August Musäus - Libussa

This is the Tale of Libussa, the mythical founder of the city of Prague. It chronicles the story of her parents and her birth, her elevation to the throne of Bohemia, and how she must fight for her true love. Musäus'...

Crln Yldz Ksr 2 hours 28 minutes

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Anna Matlack Richards - New Alice in the Old Wonderland

In this unofficial sequel to Alice in Wonderland, a different Alice, a young American girl named Alice Lee (a huge fan of the original book), stumbles upon a magical door that leads to Wonderland. There, she meets...

CJ Plogue 4 hours 10 minutes

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Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimm's Fairy Tales - Retold in One-Syllable Words

The stories we have read and loved but retold in words of one syllable to make it easier for young readers or those where English is a second language. Some you will know and love, others you may never have heard of...

Doug Fajardo and 9 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Story of the Champions of the Round Table

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Howard Pyle - Story of the Champions of the Round Table

The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Tristram, and Launcelot of the Lake. — Summary by Maggie Travers

Maggie Travers and 11 more 12 hours 30 minutes

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Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

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E. Louise Smythe - Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lists of reading words on each page, and these have been read by a child. —...

Sarah Jennings 1 hour 2 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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