Myths
The Story of the Champions of the Round Table
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Howard Pyle
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…
Thais
Read by Rom Maczka
Anatole France
The fourth century ascetic Paphnuce, journeys from his remote desert hermitage to urban Alexandria determined to locate the stunningly beaut…
Four and Twenty Fairy Tales
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Varioustranslated Byjames Planché and Varioustranslated By James Planché
This is a collection of French fairy tales by different famous authors. Included in this collection are such famous tales as Sleeping Beauty…
Life and Death
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Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar with his work.…
The Counterpane Fairy
Read by Lee Elliott
Katharine Pyle
A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated…
Fantastics and Other Fancies
Read by Ben Tucker
Lafcadio Hearn
This posthumous collection of short stories by noted author and historian of weird folklore brings together 36 of his earliest works, many o…
Children's Short Works
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Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 009: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Golden Goose Book
Read by Phil Chenevert
L. Leslie Brooke
Here are four delightful fairy tales that have fascinated children and adults for centuries. Several, such as The Three Bears and The Three …
The Wonder Garden
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Frances Jenkins Olcott
"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…
Children's Short Works
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Various
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 014: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Fisherman and His Soul
Read by Phil Chenevert
Oscar Wilde
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with…
Pepper and Salt
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Howard Pyle
One must have a little pinch of seasoning in this dull, heavy life of ours; one should never look to have all the troubles, the labors, and …
Shasta Of The Wolves
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Olaf Baker
She-wolf Nitka finds an abandoned Native American baby and raises him with her cubs. Shasta learns the wolf ways and meets his kin, where he…
The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls
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Various
A charming collection of short stories for young girls, including The King's Daughter, The Old Brown House, A Story for School Girls, What O…
Denslow's Three Bears
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
W. W. Denslow
This version of the classic tale of the three bears has a heroine named Golden Hair. The jolly bears, instead of chasing her away from their…
The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
"The Fourth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Cambel and Telamond or of Friendship."The Faerie Queene was never …
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation
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William James McGlothlin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anon…
Kriloff's Fables
Read by Kevin W. Davidson
Ivan Krylov
Herein is a collection of 86 fables translated into English from the 201 written by Kriloff. Some of Kriloff's fables are translations from …
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
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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…
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke
Read by Algy Pug
C. J. Dennis
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine edi…