Legends & Fairy Tales
Folklore of the Santal Parganas
This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…
Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
This is a short book which collects together 18 charming fables, written in rhyme and intended to be enjoyed by children. Based on stories w…
The Maker of Rainbows
The Maker of Rainbows is a captivating collection of fairy tales by Richard Le Gallienne, inviting listeners into a world where imagination …
Wet Magic
Are mermaids real? Well of course they are! Just ask the four very English children who, when on vacation by the sea, find out about one b…
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny,…
Through Fairy Halls
Through Fairy Halls is the third volume in Olive Beaupre Miller’s My Bookhouse series, a collection of stories, poems, and nursery rhymes fo…
The Devil's Bridge
Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary…
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…
Alice in Wonderland
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes…
Tristram and Iseult
Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. Th…
Beowulf
This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a my…
The Night-Side of Nature
The stories in Volume 1 centre on dreams, psychic presentiments, traces, wraiths, doppelgängers, apparitions, and imaginings of the aft…
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen is a captivating fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen that explores the battle between good and evil through the eyes of a y…
EDWY: A Poem
In Edwy, Ann Radcliffe gives us a delightful piece of poetic moonshine, whose eponymous hero seeks assistance from the world of faerie in or…
Balder Dead
"Balder Dead" is a beautiful epic poem by Matthew Arnold. It draws from Norse mythology to retell the story of the the death of Od…
Grimm Tales Made Gay
Grimm Tales Made Gay offers a whimsical twist on the classic fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, reimagined through the lens of humor and ver…
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…
The Mabinogion
The Mabinogion gathers medieval Welsh tales of kings, heroes, enchantment, and the otherworld. This volume presents the stories as translate…
The Mabinogion
This is the second of three volumes of The Mabinogion, a collection of some of the earliest tales from the British Isles. Lady Charlotte Gue…