Legends & Fairy Tales

Stories from the Arabian Nights

by Laurence Housman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of …

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Up One Pair of Stairs

by Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Olive Beaupre Miller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by William James McGlothlin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

Märchen von Charles Perrault

by Charles Perrault Read by Hokuspokus 4.7
Viele der Märchen von Charles Perrault sind sehr bekannt - allerdings unter dem Namen der Brüder Grimm, die sie vielleicht von der…

Ancient Tales and Folklore of Japan

by Richard Gordon Smith Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.6
Tales of Folklore are often of special interest. Anything may happen to ordinary mortals in the world painted by folklore. But it becomes ev…

Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table

by Andrew Lang Read by David Wales 3.8
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

Hero and Leander

by Christopher Marlowe Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

The Little House in the Fairy Wood

by Ethel Cook Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature…

Nibelungenlied

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Myths And Legends Of British North America

by Katharine Berry Judson Read by David Wales 4.7
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…

The Faeries of Birchover Wood - The Bad

by Ian Rutter Read by Ian Rutter 4.3
In a time when a King ruled England, and his knights rode into battle for glory and honour, a monster, the Bad, roamed the land, waiting for…

The Giant-Killer

by Charlotte Maria Tucker Read by Lynne T 4.3
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when…

Indian Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Indian Fairy Tales is a captivating anthology that brings together a rich tapestry of stories from India's diverse folklore. Compiled by Jos…

Stories from Pentamerone

by Giambattista Basile Read by Joy Chan 4.1
This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stori…

The Indian Story Book

by Richard Wilson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has re…

Zanzibar Tales

by George W. Bateman Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.9
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…

Personal Collection of Short Tales

by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm Read by Carmie 4.5
This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. The…

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