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By: Henry J. Ford (1860-1941) | |
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The Yellow Fairy Book | |
The Red Romance Book |
By: Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (1777-1843) | |
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Sintram and His Companions
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil. 'My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.' Fouque blends the Romantic love for nature and ancient chivalry while telling a powerful story about a young man who yearns for that which he can never attain. | |
By: Eleanor Farjeon (1881-1965) | |
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Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
The wandering minstrel Martin Pippin finds a lovelorn ploughman who begs him to visit the orchard where his beloved has been locked in the well-house with six sworn virgins to guard her. Martin Pippin goes to the rescue and wins the confidence of the young women by telling them love stories. Although ostensibly a children's book, the six love stories, which have much the form of Perrault's fairy tales such as Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella, have a depth which is adult in sentiment, and indeed they were written not for a child but for a young soldier, Victor Haslam... |
By: Robert Wood Williamson | |
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The Mafulu
The Mafulu, Mountain People of British New GuineaBy Robert W. WilliamsonINTRODUCTION By Dr. A.C. Haddon It is a great pleasure to me to introduce Mr. Williamson's book to the notice of ethnologists and the general public, as I am convinced that it will be read with interest and profit. Perhaps I may be permitted in this place to make a few personal remarks. Mr. Williamson was formerly a solicitor, and always had a great longing to see something of savage life, but it was not till about four years ago that he saw his way to attempting the realisation of this desire by an expedition to Melanesia... |
By: Sophie May (1833-1906) | |
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Fairy Book |
By: W. M. Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) | |
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Religion of Ancient Egypt
William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites and by this established seriation as a relative dating method as a major contribution to Egyptian Archaeology. In this scientific paper he describes special varieties of the conception of the supernatural in ancient Egypt. The source text also includes a list of "principal works on Egyptian religion" and a list of works "on religions ancient and modern". |
By: Katharine Berry Judson (1866-1929) | |
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Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short stories, and also quite a few songs and poems. Each tale is tagged with what culture it is from - |
By: Parker Fillmore (1878-1944) | |
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The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales |
By: Laurence Housman (1865-1959) | |
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The Blue Moon | |
The Field of Clover |
By: Lucy Abbot Throop | |
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Furnishing the Home of Good Taste
FURNISHING THE HOME OF GOOD TASTEA BRIEF SKETCH OF THE PERIOD STYLES IN INTERIOR DECORATION WITH SUGGESTIONS AS TO THEIR EMPLOYMENT IN THE HOMES OF TODAY BY LUCY ABBOT THROOP Preface To try to write a history of furniture in a fairly short space is almost as hard as the square peg and round hole problem. No matter how one tries, it will not fit. One has to leave out so much of importance, so much of historic and artistic interest, so much of the life of the people that helps to make the subject vivid, and has to take so much for granted, that the task seems almost impossible... |
By: Grace James | |
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Japanese Fairy Tales |
By: Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) | |
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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 been thought that my former volume (English Fairy Tales) had almost exhausted the scanty remains of the traditional folk-tales of England. Yet I shall be much disappointed if the present collection is not found to surpass the former in interest and vivacity, while for the most part it goes over hitherto untrodden ground, the majority of the tales in this book have either never appeared before, or have never been brought between the same boards." |
By: Madame (Jeanne-Marie) Leprince de Beaumont (1711-1780) | |
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Beauty and the Beast for Children |
By: Edmund Dulac (1882-1953) | |
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Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations |
By: Robert Nisbet Bain (1854-1909) | |
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Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales |
By: Alexander Chodzko (1804-1891) | |
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Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen |
By: William Scott-Elliot (?-1930) | |
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Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
This volume contains two publications by W. Scott-Elliot, namely The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). A theosophist and believer of the Occult, W. Scott-Elliot gives us a description of the history and structure of Atlantis and Lemuria, along with what he considers evidence of this. The Story of Atlantis is prefaced by Alfred Percy Sinnett. |
By: Eden Coybee | |
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The Dumpy Books for Children; No. 7. A Flower Book |
By: Louey Chisholm | |
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Celtic Tales, Told to the Children |
By: C. S. (Charles Seddon) Evans (1883-1944) | |
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The Sleeping Beauty |
By: Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) | |
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The Chinese Fairy Book |
By: Maud Lindsay (1874-1941) | |
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Story-teller
Are you a story teller? Almost all of us are, you know. Well, these 12 stories were written by Maud Lindsay to be told by someone who can weave the magic thread of speech into a performance that will hold the children spellbound. And we don't need to be perfect, just willing to tell a story; that is really all children ask, someone willing to tell a story. 8 of Librivox's Story tellers have volunteered to tell these enchanting tales (and sometimes sing the sweet little melodies that are included... |
By: Henry Beston | |
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The Firelight Fairy Book
One pleasant summer day, as the fairy-tale lover sat reading a book beneath the low spreading branches of an oak tree, he heard a hum of wings, and looking up startled from his book, he discovered the Fairy Goldenwand standing close by. "Are you still seeking new fairy tales?" said the Fairy Goldenwand. "Yes," said the reader. "Will you write them down if I tell you some really new ones?" said the Fairy. "Oh yes, indeed," said the reader. "And I'll put them into a book;..." "Oh, that will be fine!" said the Fairy Goldenwand... |
By: Mary J. [Editor] Safford | |
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Roumanian Fairy Tales |
By: Edmund Leamy (1848-1904) | |
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The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales | |
Irish Fairy Tales |
By: Matilda Chaplin Ayrton (1846-1883) | |
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Child-Life in Japan and Japanese Child Stories |
By: Edwin John Dingle | |
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Across China on Foot
ACROSS CHINA ON FOOTBy EDWIN JOHN DINGLEINTRODUCTORYThe scheme. Why I am walking across Interior China. Leaving Singapore. Ignorance of life and travel in China. The China for the Chinese cry. The New China and the determination of the Government. The voice of the people. The province of Yuen-nan and the forward movement. A prophecy. Impressions of Saigon. Comparison of French and English methods. At Hong-Kong. Cold sail up the Whang-poo. Disembarkation. Foreign population of Shanghai. Congestion in the city... |
By: Edwin Sidney Hartland (1848-1927) | |
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The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology |
By: Edouard Laboulaye (1811-1883) | |
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Laboulaye's Fairy Book |
By: Clara de Chatelain (1807-1876) | |
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Bo-Peep Story Books | |
Up! Horsie! An Original Fairy Tale |
By: Basil Hall Chamberlain (1850-1935) | |
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The Silly Jelly-Fish |
By: Jean Ingelow (1820-1897) | |
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Wonder-Box Tales |
By: Frances Browne (1816-1879) | |
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Granny's Wonderful Chair
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book of fairy stories and has been translated into many languages. This work, read as a child by Frances Hodgson Burnett, inspired the writings of Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories |
By: Willis George Emerson (1856-1918) | |
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Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a world peopled with giants. |
By: Charles E. Carryl (1841-1920) | |
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The Admiral's Caravan |
By: Evelyn Sharp (1869-1955) | |
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All the Way to Fairyland Fairy Stories |
By: Constance Cary Harrison (1843-1920) | |
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The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book
"And now, mamma, until your tea is ready, we know what you must do," said the children, in a breath. "Tell us a story—a 'real, truly' fairy tale, about a giant and a dwarf, lots and lots of fairies, a prince and a beautiful princess with hair to her very feet, a champion with a magic sword, a dragon-chariot, a witch dressed in snake-skin—and, if you can, an ogre. Don't punish anybody but the witch and the ogre; and please don't have any moral, only let everybody 'live in peace and die in a pot of grease,' at the end of it... |
By: Ada [Illustrator] Budell | |
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Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore |
By: Margaret Waters | |
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The Little Lame Prince Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters |
By: Dandin (6th Century) | |
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Twenty Two Goblins
These 22 stories are told by the Goblin to the King Vikram. King Vikram faces many difficulties in bringing the vetala to the tantric. Each time Vikram tries to capture the vetala, it tells a story that ends with a riddle. If Vikram cannot answer the question correctly, the vampire consents to remain in captivity. If the king answers the question correctly, the vampire would escape and return to his tree. In some variations, the king is required to speak if he knows the answer, else his head will burst... |
By: Mary Ellis | |
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Dick and His Cat An Old Tale in a New Garb |
By: Ethel Cook Eliot (1890-1972) | |
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Little House in the Fairy Wood
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, and happiness. |
By: Unknown | |
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Fall of the Nibelungs
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the destruction of the Burgundians, a Germanic tribe, in 436 by mercenary Huns recruited for the task by the Roman general Flavius Aëtius. The introduction to the 1908 edition summarizes the story, "And so 'the discord of two women,' to quote Carlyle, 'is as a little... |
By: Dandin | |
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Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes
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 by the men themselves. These narratives are replete with accounts of demigods, ghosts, gamblers, intrigues with voluptious women, astonishing coincidences, cockfights, anthropophagy, sorcery, robberies, murders and wars. |
By: Henry [Editor] Altemus | |
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The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! |
By: Fannie Louise Apjohn | |
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The Enchanted Island |
By: Gertrude Crownfield (1867-1945) | |
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The Shadow Witch |
By: T. H. James | |
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The Matsuyama Mirror |
By: Loretta Ellen Brady | |
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Green Forest Fairy Book
This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. |
By: Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko (1845-1936) | |
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Peasant Tales of Russia
Collection of Russian peasant tales: "The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. "Mahmoud's Family" - Escaping prisoners of war should be shot, but Mahmoud has a family. "A Misunderstanding" - A young woman seeks escape from her past, in a convent. "The Luck of Ivan the Forgetful" - An incorrigible criminal escapes from a sentence of hard labor to find freedom and perhaps a kind of redemption in the forest. |
By: Karle Wilson Baker (1878-1960) | |
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The Garden of the Plynck |
By: J. R. de [Illustrator] Rosciszewski | |
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The Russian Garland being Russian Folk Tales |
By: Louis Dodge (1870-1952) | |
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Everychild A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young and Which the Young May Interpret to the Old |
By: Sidney Ransom | |
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The Great Red Frog |
By: Fanny Coe [editor] (1866-1956) | |
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The Book of Stories for the Storyteller
This is a delightful collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe. They are mostly short and are fun to listen to by children and adults and most teach valuable lessons about life. Some of the stories are: A Legend of the North Wind; How the Robin's Breast became Red; The Little Rabbits; St Christopher; The Necklace of Truth; A Night with Santa Claus; The Wolf-Mother of Saint Ailbe; Pocahontas and How Molly spent her Sixpence |
By: Gudrun Thorne-Thomsen | |
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East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon |