Myths
The Fisherman and His Soul
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…
Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose
Uncle Wiggly, that irrepressible rabbit, meets characters from Mother Goose in these stories. The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon; the 3 Litt…
Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…
The Wanderings of Oisin
This narrative poem is composed in three parts, and consists of a dialogue between the aged Irish hero Oisín and St. Patrick. Oison r…
A Collection of Ballads
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic…
The Brownies
The Brownies are delightful, helpful, mischievous characters and this series of rollicking rhymes tells many stories about their adventures.…
Twilight Land
The room was all full of twilight; but there they sat, every one of them. I did not count them, but there were ever so many: Aladdin, and Al…
The Junior Classics
Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales fro…
Iracema, the Honey-Lips
Iracema (translated as Iracema, the Honey Lips: a legend of Brazil) is considered one of the most important books of Brazilian romanticism, …
The Knights of the Silver Shield
This is a volume of eleven beautiful and original little fairy tales. - Summary by Carolin
Gawayne and the Green Knight
Published in 1903, Gawayne and the Green Knight is a modern-language retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a 14th-century verse roma…
The Indian Story Book
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has re…
Honey-Bee
A sweet fairy-tale, Honey-Bee tells the story of two children raised as brother and sister, but who are not. One day they venture out to fin…
The Angels of Mons
The Angels of Mons is a popular legend about a group of angels who supposedly protected members of the British army in the Battle of Mons at…
The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories
Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1925, are s…
Black Tales for White Children
Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…
Buddhist Legends
A reading of some of the stories from the Dhammapada Commentary as translated by Prof. Burlingame.
Psyche
This is a very different Moliere, not the usual satire of everyday life. It is instead a classical tale based on the ancient story of Psyche…
The Ramayan
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …
Life and Death
Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar with his work.…