Legends & Fairy Tales
The Silver Princess in Oz
Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old frien…
Undine
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …
The Little Match Girl
The Little Match Girl is a poignant tale by Hans Christian Andersen that captures the essence of hope and despair through the eyes of a youn…
The Emperor's New Clothes
This is a collection of a few of my personal favorite stories by Hans Christian Andersen that I most loved as a child and still enjoy as an …
Celtic Fairy Tales
Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, …
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in whi…
British Goblins
The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
In this collection of Middle Eastern tales, Scheherazade tells stories night after night to hold the attention of a king who has made her li…
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. Appropriate stories tell of …
Russian Fairy Tales
The existence of the Russian Skazki or Märchen was first made generally known to the British public by Mr W. R. S. Ralston in his “Russ…
The Golden Maiden
Armenians trace their history back to before the time of the Babylonians and earliest recorded history - in fact, to Togarmah, a grandson of…
In Ghostly Japan
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries…
Kottō
Kottō contains 20 Japanese stories, collected from different sources and translated by Lafcadio Hearn. The types of stories in this collect…
The Strange Story Book
This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stori…
Folk-Lore and Legends
Thanks to Thiele, to Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, and to Asbjörnsen and Moe, Scandinavian Folklore is well to the front. Its treasure…
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories
Step into the enchanting world of Hans Christian Andersen, a master storyteller whose fairy tales have captivated audiences for generations.…
Favorite Fairy Tales
This is a collection of the fairy tales that children love best, told in simple language and lavishly illustrated. They are written by vario…
Queen Zixi of Ix
L.Frank Baum, or the Wizard of Oz fame, wrote this delightful book and considered it his best of all that he wrote. it tells the story of f…
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, si…
The 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 fisherm…