Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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George MacDonald - Princess and Curdie (Version 2)

A year has passed since Curdie's adventures with young Princess Irene and the hostile goblins deep in the mountain. As Curdie grows up, his faith in the elusive royal Great-Great-Grandmother is fading. When a...

Hannah Mary 6 hours 2 minutes

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Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud

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Frances Jenkins Olcott - Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud

Lots of stories and poems about elves, faeries and other wonderful wee folk. All read for you by LibriVox people who love them so what more could you ask for? If you want a break from the harsh 'real' world, come...

Beth Thomas and 13 more 9 hours 49 minutes

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Sagas

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Anonymous - Mabinogion, Volume 2

This is the second of three volumes of The Mabinogion, a collection of some of the earliest tales from the British Isles. Lady Charlotte Guest translated the stories in Volume 2 from a 14th-century Welsh manuscript,...

jolynne and 1 more 3 hours 24 minutes

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Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun

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Catulle Mendès - Fairy Spinning Wheel and the Tales it spun

This is a little volume of old-fashioned fairy tales, collected and rewritten by Catulle Mendès and translated from the French and adapted for an American audience by TJ Vivian. This collection contains some of the...

Foon and 7 more 2 hours 28 minutes

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Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

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Francis Bacon - Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

«Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding the poets’ fables which the poets themselves did in inventing them; and it is true...

Allie Mandell and 6 more 3 hours 17 minutes

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Harold Gaze - Coppertop

The story is about a little girl who meets all manner of strange gnomes, fairies and creatures after she goes to sleep at night. She also has two invisible brothers whom she created so as to not be alone while her...

Corrinne LePage and 6 more 2 hours 30 minutes

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Jack Snow - Magical Mimics in Oz

The land of OZ is the happiest fairyland anywhere, but there are evil creatures whose only ambition is to destroy that happiness. Lurking inside Mount Illuso, just south of the Deadly Desert, live the Magic Mimics, a...

Phil Chenevert 3 hours 35 minutes

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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09

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Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09

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...

Paul Mazumdar and 11 more 15 hours 30 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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David Kalakaua - Legends and Myths of Hawaii

A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of Hawaii. Introduction, including a history, geography and social and religious...

Lynne T and 6 more 22 hours 34 minutes

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Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 3)

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L. Frank Baum - Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (version 3)

L. Frank Baum takes us through the adventures of Santa Claus beginning with his adoption as an infant by Necile the nymph. As a youth, Claus discovers fellow humans on earth and returns to their world where he decides...

2 hours 58 minutes

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Edwin Carlile Litsey - Race Of The Swift

This 1905 collection is of the author’s short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. — Summary by David Wales

David Wales 2 hours 6 minutes

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William Thomas Linskill - St Andrews Ghost Stories

Seventeen ghost stories (fourth edition published 1921) centered around the ruined medieval cathedral of Saint Andrew in the Scots city of that name. The author was famous in his time for his interest in ghostly...

David Wales 3 hours 6 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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