Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Hans Christian Andersen - Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid" (Danish: Den lille havfrue, literally: «the little sea lady») is a very well known fairy tale by the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 1 minute

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Devil's Bridge

Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 10 more 24 minutes

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L. Leslie Brooke - Golden Goose Book (version 2)

Here are four delightful fairy tales that have fascinated children and adults for centuries. Several, such as The Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs are well known and can be listened to with delight as each...

Phil Chenevert 36 minutes

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Ellen C. Babbitt - Jataka Tales

Jataka Tales form a part of the collective Indian Fairy tales with the only distinction that most of Jataka Tales have a moral. These are famous children stories and some of the stories like the «the turtle who...

Lucas Boulding and 8 more 1 hour 21 minutes

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Ann Radcliffe - EDWY: A Poem, in Three Parts

In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in order to spy on his girlfriend, Aura, and see if she really loves him. He does...

Grant Hurlock 56 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Plato (Πλάτων) - Critias

This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed...

Kevin Johnson 1 hour 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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J. M. Barrie - Story of Peter Pan

THE STORY OF PETER PAN RETOLD FROM THE FAIRY PLAY BY SIR J.M. BARRIE BY DANIEL O'CONNOR. Basically, Daniel O'Connor took the story from the original play, with the approval of Barrie, and shortened it into a book with...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 1 minute

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Arthur Machen - Angels of Mons

The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at the outset of World War I. The story is fictitious, developed through a...

R. S. Steinberg 1 hour 6 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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William Shakespeare - Venus and Adonis (dramatic reading)

Venus and Adonis is Shakespeare's narrative poem about the love of the goddess Venus for the mortal youth Adonis, dedicated partly to his patron, the Earl of Southampton (thought by some to be the beautiful youth to...

1 hour 8 minutes

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Leo Tolstoy - Ivan the Fool

Written after Tolstoy suffered a spiritual crisis, Ivan the Fool is a fairy tale that offers children instruction in how to live rightly, simply, and generously. The story emphasizes the destructive aspects of...

Larry Caplan and 1 more 1 hour 8 minutes

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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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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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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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