Myths

The Myths and Fables of To-day

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Samuel Adams Drake


Samuel Adams was born in 1833, began journalism in 1858, served in the Army for 10 years & returned home to continue with his journalism…

The Brownies and Prince Florimel

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Palmer Cox


After Prince Florimel flees his home (and a particularly nasty uncle) he has a series of adventures with the mischevious but helpful Brownie…

Australian Fairy Tales

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James Hume-Cook


"The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the same words in which they were told. How the telling of them came abou…

The Race Of The Swift

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Edwin Carlile Litsey


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

The Lost Princess (version 2)

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George MacDonald


Two selfish little girls, a princess and a shepherd's daughter, encounter a wise woman who lovingly shows them each that they are not the ce…

Teddy Bears

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Adah Louise Sutton


Set in the early 1900's, this is a delightful story of a tribe of Teddy Bears arrival in the department store and the adventures some of the…

Coppertop

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Harold Gaze


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 ha…

Jātaka Tales

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H. T. Francis


Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s…

African Jungle Tales

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Carl Bender


Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales which he later…

The Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany

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Rudolf Baumbach, Richard von Volkmann and Richard Von Volkmann


Gertrude Schottenfels has collected and arranged eleven original tales from Germany in this volume. Ms Schottenfels alternates between stori…

Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods

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William T. Cox


A limbless reptilian monster that propels itself through the swamps with a propellor-tipped tail? A creature so ashamed of its monstrous app…

Bunny Brothers

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Jacqueline Clayton


Pinkie is one of a whole bunch of bunny brothers and sisters. Their mother, Mrs. Bunny, is a busy woman and often exasperated with the exub…

Panchatantra

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Vishnu Sharmatranslated Byarthur William Ryder


A collection of the most ancient and widely known stories in the world. The wisdom and wit in the verses of these frame stories sets the Pan…

Black Folk Tales

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Erick Berry


This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin wh…

The Desert

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Mathilde Blind


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Desert by Mathilde Blind. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.

My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales (Version 3)

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Edric Vredenberg


Here they are again, the old, old stories, the very best; dear Cinderella, wicked old Bluebeard, tiny Thumbling, beautiful Beauty and the ug…

The Fables of Pilpay

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Abdullah Ibn Al-Muqaffaʿ


These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabi…

Old Fashioned Fairy Tales (version 2)

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Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing


The title may lead you to think that these are retellings of old familiar fairy tales. Not so at all. These are completely new stories bu…

Myths of Northern Lands

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H. A. Guerber


The aim of this handbook of Northern mythology is to familiarize the English student of letters with the religion of his heathen ancestors, …

The Hunting of the Snark (version 4)

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Lewis Carroll


The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense p…

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