Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Jacob Abbott - Romulus

Jacob Abbott wrote many historical books for children. He was careful to ensure historical accuracy, and as he said himself in the preface to this book «Whatever of interest… these stories may possess is due solely to...

sherlock85 and 5 more 6 hours 31 minutes

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Charles Perrault - Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales.(Summary by A.L. Gramour)

Algy Pug and 5 more 2 hours 51 minutes

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Howard Pyle - Twilight Land

The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Ali Baba, and Fortunatis, and Jack-the-Giant-Killer, and Doctor Faustus, and...

Levi Moreira and 14 more 7 hours 24 minutes

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Anonymous - Mabinogion, Volume 1

Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest: On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flock of black sheep. And whenever one of the white sheep bleated, one of...

Martin Geeson 4 hours 52 minutes

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 008

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 008: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

MaryAnn and 11 more 2 hours 20 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

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Lafcadio Hearn - Kottō : being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs

Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collection are widespread: There are old ghost stories Hearn is best known for (The...

Scott Carpenter and 8 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 007

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 007: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Ana and 10 more 2 hours 15 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Clara E. Laughlin - Everybody's Lonesome

Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mother's advice, she reluctantly visits her Godmother in New York, who teaches...

Bridget Gaige 1 hour 29 minutes

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Ruth Plumly Thompson - Royal Book of Oz

The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank Baum's death. Although Baum was credited as the author, it was written...

Mark F. Smith 5 hours 6 minutes Oz books

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Ignatius Loyola Donnelly - Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

«Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during 1831. Donnelly considered Plato's account of...

Nicholas James Bridgewater and 12 more 16 hours 54 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Emerson Hough - Singing Mouse Stories

The singing mouse tells tales of nature in songs. This book is for those who want to know how the mountains ate up the plains, what the waters said or where the city went. (summary by Nadine)

Diana Majlinger and 10 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 2)

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L. Frank Baum - Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 2)

This wonderful children’s short story tells all about the youth, manhood and old age of Santa Claus and how he became immortal. (Introduction by jedopi)

jedopi 3 hours 31 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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