Myths
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains I…
Australian Fairy Tales
"The Stories in this little book have been set down almost in the same words in which they were told. How the telling of them came abou…
The Flower Princess
ONCE upon a time there was a beautiful Princess named Fleurette, who lived in a white marble palace on the top of a high hill. The Princess …
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Trist…
The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales
This is a collection of original and interesting fairy tales. We have here princes and princesses, pirates, wizards, and all the other ingre…
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisit…
The Wonder Garden
"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transf…
Mongan's Frenzy
James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and…
The Book of Hallowe'en
This book is intended to give the reader an account of the origin and history of Hallowe'en, how it absorbed some customs belonging to other…
Myths And Legends Of British North America
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…
Phantasmion
In 1837 came Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale, Sara Coleridge's longest original work, described by critic Mike Ashley as "the first fairytale…
West African Folk Tales
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 …
Old Fashioned Fairy Tales
The title may lead you to think that these are retellings of old familiar fairy tales. Not so at all. These are completely new stories bu…
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…
Personal Collection of Short Tales
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…
The Santa Claus Story Book
This is a collection of fairy tales. The first story is a Christmas story in verse, and of course the Christmas holidays are the best time f…
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales
"Here they are again, the old, old stories, the very best; dear Cinderella, wicked old Bluebeard, tiny Thumbling, beautiful Beauty and …
The Oresteia
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libati…