Myths

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio

by Songling Pu Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai" is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly super…

The House of the Wolfings

by William Morris Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time suc…

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…

The Fisherman and his Soul

by Oscar Wilde Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012) 4.3
”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…

Märchen

by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…

Old Indian Legends

by Zitkala-Sa Read by Robert Scott 4.2
Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa invites listeners into a rich tapestry of Native American folklore, where the cunning trickster Iktomi take…

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…

Asgard Stories

by Mary H. Fosterandmabel H. Cummings, Mary H. Foster and Mabel H. Cummings Read by Julie Yu 4.3
Asgard Stories - Tales from Norse Mythology. To all our Children who have loved the hearing of these Asgard Stories. This little volume is t…

Mopsa The Fairy

by Jean Ingelow Read by Noel Badrian 4.8
Jean Ingelow (1820 – 1897) was one of the more famous poets of the period, indeed many people suggested that she should succeed Alfred, Lord…

Aesop's Fables

by Aesop Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
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 Little House in the Fairy Wood

by Ethel Cook Eliot Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature…

Polish Fairy Tales

by A. J. Glinski Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
These are selections from a large collection made by A. J. Glinski, printed at Wilna in 1862. These fairy tales come from a far past and may…

Le Morte d'Arthur

by Sir Thomas Malory Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, &quo…

Flower Fables

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Flower Fables is a collection of enchanting tales crafted by Louisa May Alcott when she was just sixteen. Written for the daughter of Ralph …

Rootabaga Stories

by Carl Sandburg Read by Betsie Bush 4.9
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a s…

Stories from Pentamerone

by Giambattista Basile Read by Joy Chan 4.1
This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stori…

Hero and Leander

by Christopher Marlowe Read by Martin Geeson 4.6
“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?”The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plague…

Myths And Legends Of British North America

by Katharine Berry Judson Read by David Wales 4.7
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning o…

Tales Of King Arthur And The Round Table

by Andrew Lang Read by David Wales 3.8
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history o…

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…

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