Legends & Fairy Tales
Old Peter's Russian Tales
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Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public …
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales From the Old French
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Charles Perrault
What began as a translation project became a retelling of four classic fairy tales from the Cabinet des Fees, the French collection of over …
The Magic of Oz (version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
L. Frank Baum
This is the second to last book in the OZ series that Baum actually wrote himself before he passed away. "A Faithful Record of the R…
The Story of the Three Little Pigs
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
L. Leslie Brooke
This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This rec…
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 04
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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…
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
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William Butler Yeats
This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…
The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes
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Charles Godfrey Leland
This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (version 7)
Read by Lyn Stanley
L. Frank Baum
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in whi…
A Book of Myths
Read by James K. White
Jean Lang
This is a collection of myths--mostly Greek with a smattering of others from the east--written in a clear and easy-to-read style. Lang compl…
The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables
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Francis Bacon
"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding th…
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 4 dramatic reading)
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Oscar Wilde
Wilde's collection of fairy tales has delighted both children and adults since it was first published in 1888. It contains five stories, &qu…
Mother Goose in Prose
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L. Frank Baum
Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…
Rinkitink in Oz (version 3)
Read by Phil Chenevert
L. Frank Baum
Prince Inga of Pingaree and King Rinkitink and their companions have adventures that lead to the land of the Nomes and, eventually, Oz. In …
The Trojan Women (Murray Translation)
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Euripides
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining famil…
Glinda of Oz (version 2)
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L. Frank Baum
Glinda the Good, the great sorceress of Oz takes the spotlight in this, the very last OZ book written by L. Frank Baum himself. Ozma hears …
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children
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Jonathan Swift
This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…
The King of Ireland's Son
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Pádraic Colum
The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It i…
History of the Kings of Britain
Read by Paul Mazumdar
Geoffrey Of Monmouth
More medieval romance than history, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae represents the oldest versions we have of many legends …
The Legends of Charlemagne
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Thomas Bulfinch
Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) explains the his work is "an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make …