Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Book of Werewolves

A survey of the myths and legends concerning lycanthropy from ancient times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by A. Gramour)

John Fricker and 9 more 5 hours 42 minutes

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French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

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Marie de France - French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France

The tales included in this little book of translations are derived mainly from the «Lays» of Marie de France. I do not profess them to be a complete collection of her stories in verse. The ascription varies. Poems...

Linda Hogan and 6 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Howard Pyle - Wonder Clock

«Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day,» retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04

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H. P. Nichols - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04

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...

Paul C. Newman and 11 more 12 hours 46 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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J. Walker McSpadden - Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for «robbing from the rich and giving to the poor», assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his «Merry...

Barry Eads 5 hours 56 minutes

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Lafcadio Hearn - In Ghostly Japan

This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 5 more 4 hours 33 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Grey Fairy Book

The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs....

Maria Therese and 24 more 9 hours 52 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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C. J. Dennis - Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse...

Algy Pug 2 hours 8 minutes

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 009

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 009: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Laura Harrington and 9 more 2 hours 13 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Children's Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvie and Bruno are charming whenever they appear, their fairy companions such as...

Catharine Eastman 8 hours 15 minutes

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen - East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty children they all were, but the prettiest was the youngest daughter, who was so...

Magdalena and 12 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert E. Howard - Red Nails

Conan the Cimmerian pursues the beautiful and deadly pirate Valeria after she kills a Stygian only to find himself cornered by a dragon. Apparently this dragon doesn’t know who he’s messing with. The pair then...

Gregg Margarite 3 hours 23 minutes Conan the Cimmerian

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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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