Myths

Tales from Greece and Rome

by Various Read by Gillian Hendrie
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

The Indian Story Book

by Richard Wilson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
In Indian Story Book, Richard Wilson retells stories from the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, and other early Indian sources for young English-sp…

Heimskringla

by Snorri Sturleson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.1
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Ice…

The Lavender Dragon

by Eden Phillpotts Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.4
A well meaning dragon steals lonely humans to populate his version of paradise. A knight-errant comes to the rescue, but finds this terribl…

The Giant Crab

by W.H.D. Rouse and W. H. D. Rouse Read by David Wales 4.5
This is the first collection by this author of charming folk tales from India. There is a second entitled The Talking Thrush (LibriVox audio…

The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk

by Mary Grant Bruce Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria whic…

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…

Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

by Sabine Baring-Gould Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.5
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages invites listeners to explore the fascinating and often bizarre beliefs that shaped medieval thought. In thi…

Stories from the Faerie Queene

by Mary Macleod Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.3
The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but littl…

The Wanderings of Oisin

by William Butler Yeats Read by Nathan 3.8
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…

Faust II

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

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…

Up One Pair of Stairs

by Olive Beaupre Miller Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
Up One Pair of Stairs is the second volume in Olive Beaupre Miller’s My Bookhouse series, a collection of stories, poems, and nursery rhymes…

Fairy Realm

by Tom Hood Read by Noel Badrian 4.4
Here are five of the most loved Fairy Tales retold in verse by the English humourist and writer, Tom Hood (1835 - 1874). The tales are; The …

The Faerie Queene

by Edmund Spenser Read by LibriVox Volunteers 5
"The Fourth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Cambel and Telamond or of Friendship."The Faerie Queene was never …

Faust I

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.8
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal w…

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 …

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Wonderwings

by Edith Howes Read by Claire Goget 4.6
Wonderwings invites listeners into a magical realm where fairies take center stage in three enchanting tales. Each story weaves together ele…

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…

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