Legends & Fairy Tales
Children's Short Works
Discover a delightful assortment of enchanting tales in Children's Short Works by the renowned Brothers Grimm. This collection features 15 c…
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 …
Aino Folk-Tales
Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of …
The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights
The Publishers have asked me to authorise a new edition, in my own name, of this little book—now long out of print—which was written by me t…
A Knyght Ther Was
"But the Knyght was a little less than perfect, and his horse did not have a metabolism, and his 'castle' was much more mobile - timewi…
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…
Hindoo Tales
This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…
British Goblins
The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…
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. They are an amalgam of mytho…
History of the Britons
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …
Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen
This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as …
The Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales
The Sleeping Beauty, Bluebeard, Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast. All stories we of course have heard many times. But these are retold…
The Story of King Arthur
Of all the legends of bygone ages which we in the foremost ranks of time may call our own perhaps none have come to us so fraught with the s…
Le Morte d'Arthur
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…
Aesop's Fables
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…
The Story of Peter Pan
Enter the enchanting world of Neverland in The Story of Peter Pan, a retelling of J. M. Barrie's beloved fairy play. This adaptation, crafte…
More English Fairy Tales
"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…
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories
Step into the enchanting world of Hans Christian Andersen, a master storyteller whose fairy tales have captivated audiences for generations.…
Strange Pages from Family Papers
“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…