Legends & Fairy Tales

Geschichten vom lieben Gott

by Rainer Maria Rilke Read by Hokuspokus 4.3
»Wissen Sie, sie sind jetzt beide in dem Alter, die Kinder, wo sie den ganzen Tag fragen. Zum Beispiel: Spricht der liebe Gott auch c…

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…

Gargantua and Pantagruel

by François Rabelais Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.1
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…

Der Königsgaukler

by Manfred Kyber Read by Karlsson 4.6
In diesem "indischen Märchen" erzählt Manfred Kyber die Geschichte von Mantao, der als Sohn armer, einfacher Leute gebor…

West African Folk Tales

by William H. Barker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …

Der Sandmann

by E. T. A. Hoffmann Read by Karlsson 4.6
Der Student Nathanael glaubt in einem Wetterglashändler namens Coppola einen Mann wieder zu erkennen, der in seiner Kindheit als Advoka…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
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 Book of Stories for the Storyteller

by Fanny Coe and Fanny E. Coe Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, bro…

The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night

by Anonymous Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
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 Book of Good Counsels

by Sir Edwin Arnold Read by Jothi Tharavant 4.9
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The…

More English Fairy Tales

by Joseph Jacobs Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…

The Russian Storybook

by Richard Wilson Read by LibriVox Volunteers 3.7
In Russian Storybook, Reverend Richard Wilson retells traditional Russian stories for English-speaking children, offering a window into a st…

Histoire d'un casse-noisette

by Alexandre Dumas Read by Ezwa 4.6
Un soir de 24 décembre, Marie et Fritz découvrent, au pied de l'arbre de Noël, un charmant petit bonhomme difforme casseu…

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…

History of the Britons

by Nennius Read by BUAES 4
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …

Das Märchen vom Karfunkelstein

by Ludwig Ganghofer Read by Bernd Ungerer 4.7
'Das Märchen vom Karfunkelstein' - eine wunderliche Geschichte für kleine und große Kinder - Summary by Ludwig Ganghofer

Hindoo Tales

by Daṇḍin Read by sid 5
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…

Spiegel, das Kätzchen

by Gottfried Keller Read by Karlsson 4.6
Spiegel, das Kätzchen (Untertitel: Ein Märchen) ist eine Novelle des Schweizer Dichters Gottfried Keller. Sie bildet den Schluss d…

Elves and Heroes

by Donald Alexander Mackenzie Read by Matthew Reece 4.6
This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the c…

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