Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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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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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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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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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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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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Animals & Nature

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Ruth Stiles Gannett - My Father's Dragon

A short story about a boy who befriends a cat and then sets off on an adventure to rescue a dragon

as101 51 minutes

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Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)

Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was the second of Sophocles's three Theban plays to be produced, but it comes...

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Nennius - History of the Britons

One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, and embellisher, of historic characters and events; but his book is notable...

BUAES and 1 more 1 hour 27 minutes

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The Gawain Poet - Gawayne and the Green Knight, version 2

Published in 1903, Gawayne and the Green Knight is a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th-century verse romance following a young knight of the Round Table. During Christmas...

Jerome Lawsen 1 hour 17 minutes

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Guy Wetmore Carryl - Grimm Tales Made Gay

A comic rendering in verse of well-loved Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, each ending with a moral and full of puns. The titles of the tales themselves make another verse.(Summary by Annise)

Patrick Barringer and 2 more 1 hour 6 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Walter Crane - Frog Prince and Other Stories

Here are three charming fairy tales with happy endings. They feature an enchanted frog; a princess, her brothers, and a dastardly plot against them; and a magical lamp with a Genius inside. (by Laurie Anne Walden)

Laurie Anne Walden 33 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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