Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 006

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 006: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

jedopi and 7 more 2 hours 22 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

491

P. G. Wodehouse - William Tell Told Again

This is the classic story of William Tell — Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter — as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse. No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story;...

Mark F. Smith 1 hour 44 minutes

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John Ruskin - King of the Golden River

When three brothers mortally offend Mr. Southwest Wind, Esquire, their farm is laid waste and their riches lost. Desperate for money, the brothers become goldsmiths and melt down their remaining treasures... only to...

Xenutia 1 hour 14 minutes

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Elsie Spicer Eells - Fairy Tales from Brazil

This book, subtitled «How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore», is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)

Leni and 7 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

509

Homer - Iliad of Homer

«The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the...

StephenC 15 hours 40 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Wanderings of Oisin

This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison relates his three-hundred year sojourn in the immortal isles of Faerie. In the...

Nathan 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert F. Young - Knyght Ther Was

«But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile — timewise! — than it had any business being!» In 2178, once time travel had become a...

Roger Melin 2 hours 18 minutes

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 005

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 005: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Joe Cooning and 11 more 2 hours 28 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

Dramatic Readings

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A. A. Milne - Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading)

This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying...

5 hours 23 minutes

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George Chapman - Hero and Leander

“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague broke out in London, forcing the closure of the theatres. Leading...

Martin Geeson 3 hours 37 minutes

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Andrew Lang - Pink Fairy Book

All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new...

Elliott Miller 9 hours 24 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Children's Fiction

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Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 01

Following in the vein of my Coffee-Break collections, this is a collection of short (all under 15 minutes) stories for kids. Focus is on fables and fairy tales published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 59 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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