Legends & Fairy Tales

Mopsa The Fairy

Read by NoelBadrian


Jean Ingelow



Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord…

Balder Dead

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Matthew Arnold



"Balder Dead" is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Od…

Children's Classics in Dramatic Form

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Augusta Stevenson



This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, H. C. Andersen, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by …

Stories from the Arabian Nights

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Laurence Housman



Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of …

Myths And Legends Of British North America

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Katharine Berry Judson



[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…

Grimm's Fairy Stories

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm



Fairies, Evil Step Mothers, Enchanted Forests, Golden Geese, Poor Little Children, Fairy Godmothers, Magic wells, and oh, so many many more …

Children's Short Works, Vol. 005

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm



LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 005: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Jataka Tales

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Ellen C. Babbitt



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 fa…

Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 02

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Various



This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Children's Short Works, Vol. 012

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Various



Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

The Myths of the New World

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Daniel Garrison Brinton



The Myths of the New World's full title describes it as.. " a treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America",…

The Faerie Queene Book 3

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Edmund Spenser



"The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie."The Faerie Queene was never completed,…

A House of Pomegranates (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde



A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. This book contains four tales: 1. &quo…

Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

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Songling Pu



"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James McGlothlin



This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii

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David Kalakaua



A collection of legends and myths of the Hawaiian islands and their 'strange people' as told by His Majesty King Kalakaua, the last king of …

Finnish Legends

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R. Eivind



One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family …

The Strange Story Book (version 2)

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Leonora Blanche Lang



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…

The Norwegian Fairy Book

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Klara Stroebe



These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher f…

Gawayne and the Green Knight (Lewis Translation)

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The Gawain Poet, Charlton Miner Lewis, The Gawain Poettranslated Bycharlton Miner Lewis and The Gawain Poettranslated By Charlton Miner Lewis



Charlton Miner Lewis' version of Gawayne and the Green Knight, a late 14th century alliterative romance, is written in modern language telli…

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