Myths
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
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Andrew Lang
The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (…
Indian Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs
This book is a fine collection of Indian fairy tales, some are folklore, some are from the Jataka tales, and some from panchatantra. (Summar…
Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100)
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Aesop
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 Fisherman and his Soul
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Oscar Wilde
”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…
The Legends of the Jews, Volume 1
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Louis Ginzberg
Rabbi Louis Ginzberg was one of the outstanding Talmudists of the twentieth century. He was born on November 28, 1873, in Kovno, Lithuania; …
Stories of Old Greece and Rome
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Emilie Kip Baker
The Stories of Old Greece and Rome is an easy to read summary of all of the famous and not so famous Greek and Roman mythological stories. A…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Neilson Translation)
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The Gawain Poet, The Gawain Poettranslated Bywilliam Allan Neilson and The Gawain Poettranslated By William Allan Neilson
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…
Myths and Legends of All Nations
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Logan Marshall
This excellent book contains many great stories from the various mythologies of man throughout the ages.
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06
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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 Story of King Arthur and His Knights
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Howard Pyle
Masterful artist, illustrator, and storyteller Howard Pyle brings new life to the legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.…
The Age of Chivalry
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Thomas Bulfinch
Thomas Bulfinch explains the his work is "an attempt to tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amus…
Celtic Fairy Tales
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Joseph Jacobs
Celtic Fairy Tales is a collection of 25 folk and fairy stories collected from Ireland and Scotland. At what I imagine is the Frontispiece, …
Nine Unlikely Tales
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E. Nesbit
Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence …
The Story of the Greeks
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H. A. Guerber
This book is a collection of stories and histories about the Ancient Greeks, including many of their famous myths! - Summary by Ann Boulais
American Indian Fairy Tales
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William Trowbridge Larned
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…
A House Of Pomegranates
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Oscar Wilde
A House of Pomegranates is a collection of fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published as a second collection for The Happy Prin…
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Version 7)
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Lewis Carroll
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is probably one of the most well known and popular children's novels in the English language. Written in 18…
Lulu's Library, Volume 2
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Louisa May Alcott
Most of these stories were written at sixteen for my younger sisters and their playmates, the little Emersons and Channings, and appeared so…
Maori Folk-Tales of the Port Hills
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James Cowan
In this little book I have endeavoured to interweave with descriptions of the most picturesque parts of the Canterbury Port Hills some of th…
Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
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William Shakespeare
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …