Myth & Fairy Tales Books

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16

Sir Richard Francis Burton

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night  is a multi volume collection of Arabic fairy and folk tales written by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a British explorer, geographer, translato..

Up! Horsie!

Clara de Chatelain

Up! Horsie!  is a fairy tale for children written by Clara de Chatelain.Excerpts:A young peasant was riding to market on a stout, well-fed nag, when he overtook an old Scotch shepherd, who w..

The Red Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books. The series was immensely popular and proved of great influence in chi..

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories

Edith Howes

Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories is a collection of three fairy tales with moral lessons written for children by Edith Annie Howes, a New Zealand teacher, educationalist, and writer of childre..

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights

James Knowles

The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights is a collection of folk tales based on the legendary character King Arthur written by James Knowles and Illustrated by Lancelot Speed.King Arthur a..

Irish Fairy Tales

James Stephens

Irish Fairy Tales is a retelling of ten Irish folktales by the Irish author James Stephens. The English illustrator Arthur Rackham provided interior artwork, including numerous black and white illustr..

The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 01

Jonathan Scott

The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then declares all women to be unfaithful. He begins to marry a su..

Canadian Wonder Tales

Cyrus Macmillan

This is a collection of folk tales originating in Canada, some from aboriginal oral tradition and others due to early French, Scottish, Irish and British colonists. They are presented as "fables" thou..