Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Andrew Lang - Orange Fairy Book

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

Paul Vinson Brown and 21 more 9 hours 41 minutes Andrew Lang's Fairy Books

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Matthew Arnold - Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum

Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. This poem draws upon the Tristam and Iseult legends: which were popular with...

Nathan 1 hour 11 minutes

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Richard Harris Barham - Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series

The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first...

Grant Hurlock 9 hours 41 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso - Metamorphoses

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is probably one of the best known, certainly one of the most influential works of the Ancient world. It consists of a narrative poem in fifteen books that describes the creation and history...

Leni and 20 more 14 hours 50 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Fisherman and his Soul

”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must...

Gregg Margarite 1 hour 20 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Snow Queen and Other Stories

This project features four longer stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective...

Neeru Iyer and 1 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Matthew Arnold - Balder Dead

Balder Dead" is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Odin's son, Balder, instigated by the treacherous jealousy of Loki. (Summary by...

Nathan 53 minutes

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Enchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland

Children's Fiction

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Howard E. Altemus - Enchanted Castle: Fairy Tales from Flowerland

Every boy and girl—and for that matter every man and woman, too—rejoices when the winter snows have vanished and the earth once more puts on her beautiful dress of green, for then the flowers wake from their sleep...

Kalynda 44 minutes

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Ruth Edna Kelley - Book of Hallowe'en

This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other days in the year,—such as May Day, Midsummer, and Christmas. The context is...

Sibella Denton 2 hours 45 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mary Macleod - Stories from the Faerie Queene

The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but little read and known--to excite this interest not only in young persons who are...

Lars Rolander and 7 more 7 hours 50 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 03

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 03

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Barbara Clements and 17 more 15 hours 1 minute Thousand Nights and a Night

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 004

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 004: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Sean Mauch and 9 more 2 hours 5 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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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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