Fairy Collection

Adventure, science fiction, aesop’s fables, classic fairy tales, and Christmas story books for children.

The Odyssey is an epic poem, written by the ancient Greek philosopher Homer, and considered to be the second oldest piece of western literature still in existence. Scholars believe it was written at the end of the eighth century BC. Still heavily used in schools because of its unique literary makeup and historical value, the poems follow Greek hero Odysseus, as he journeys home after the 10-year long Trojan War. His journey home takes another 10 years, and Odysseus encounters many obstacles.

Rama is all of sixteen when Sage Viswamithra takes him to the Dandaka forest, with Lakshmana accompanying them. At first, the spirit of adventure fills the two teenage brothers, but when they enter the forest in broad daylight, it is a curtain of pitch darkness. The smell of decaying flesh...

Can one girl's lost humanity return to make her the most powerful being on Pendomus? Or will her naivety force those around her to succumb to a horrifying fate? Only time will tell. Just when all hope is lost - destiny intervenes and sets a new trajectory. The only question is...who's pulling the strings?

The best writers of our generation retell the classics. Literature is filled with sexy, deadly, and downright twisted tales. In this collection, award-winning and best-selling authors reimagine their favorite classic stories, ones that have inspired, awed, and enraged them; ones that have become ingrained in modern culture; and ones that have been too long overlooked. They take these stories and boil them down to their bones, and then reassemble them for a new generation of listeners.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 9) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: The Porter's Son / Poultry Meg's Family / The Princess and the Pea / The Psyche / The Puppet-show Man / The Races / The Red Shoes / Everything in the Right Place / A Rose from Homer's Grave / The Snail and the Rose-tree.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 13) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: Under the Willow Tree / In the Uttermost Parts of the Sea / What One Can Invent / The Wicked Prince / The Wild Swans / The Will-o-the-Wisp in the Town, Says the Wild Woman / The Story of the Wind / The Windmill / The Story of the Year.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 3) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: Delaying is not Forgetting / The Drop of Water / The Dryad / Jack the Dullard / The Dumb Book / The Elf of the Rose / The Elfin Hill / The Emperor's New Suit / The Fir Tree / The Flax.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 8) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: The Old Street Lamp / Ole-Luk-Oie, the Dream God / Ole the Tower-keeper / Our Aunt / The Garden of Paradise / The Pea Blossom / The Pen and the Inkstand / The Philosopher's Stone / The Phoenix Bird / The Portuguese Duck.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 4) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: The Flying Trunk / The Shepherd's Story of the Bond of Friendship / The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf / The Goblin and the Huckster / The Golden Treasure / The Galoshes of Fortune / She was Good for Nothing / Grandmother / A Great Grief / The Happy Family.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 12) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: In a Thousand Years / The Brave Tin Soldier / The Tinder-box / The Toad / The Top and Ball / The Travelling Companion / Two Brothers / Two Maidens / The Ugly Duckling.

Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Volume 1) is a collection of fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen. Contents: A Story / By the Almshouse Window / The Angel / Anne Lisbeth / The Conceited Apple-branch / Beauty of Form and Beauty of Mind / The Beetle Who Went on His Travels / The Bell / The Bell-deep / The Bird of Popular Song.

Discover fascinating ancient Japanese fairy tales as well as the folk tales of the Ainu/Aino. The first book in this collection, titled Japanese Fairy Tales, was written by Iwaya Sazanami and translated by Yei Theodora Ozaki, a 20th-century translator of Japanese short stories and fairy tales. The second book in this collection is a rare one that is not usually available in audio format: Aino Folk-Tales by Basil Chamberlain, one of the most prominent British Japanologists active in Japan during the latter half of the 19th century.

Aurelia George was prepared to let the world believe she was dead. Tangled in the arms of her mountain men and bound only by the rules they make, the twice disgraced pop star had found her happily ever after. Or so she thought. The only thing surprising about learning her uncle wants her dead is...

It’s fate when a man accidentally drops his phone off the bridge. It’s fortune when it’s retrieved by a friendly shape sloshing in the muck underneath. From that day forward, as they share a coffee every morning, an unlikely friendship blooms. Considering the reality for the man above, where life seems perfect, and that of the sharp-witted creature below, how forever after can a happy ending be?

"What is your favorite story?" is the question children across the country often ask professional storyteller Pleasant DeSpain. As he attempts to answer, his list grows longer and longer, until he confesses he likes them all. An untiring researcher of oral traditions, DeSpain is known for his concise versions of world folktales specifically crafted for retelling. This new, digital recording of 10 stories is excerpted from DeSpain's 22 Splendid Tales to Tell from Around the World, Volume One.

A tragic epic love story before Romeo and Juliet, by one of the greatest medieval Persian romance poets, in a modern-verse English translation by Dick Davis A Penguin Classic Based on historical characters of the seventh-century Iranian court and written 850 years ago, the narrative poem about...

In the tradition of George Saunders and Aimee Bender, an exuberantly imagined debut that chronicles an ordinary world marked by unusual phenomena. The eighteen stories of Manuel Gonzales’s exhilarating first book render the fantastic commonplace and the ordinary extraordinary, in prose that...

Five modern takes on classic fairy tales, and the only magic is the real-life kind. The stories can be listened to separately, but are linked together in the collection, and wrap up in the perfect happily ever after.

This awesome collection of children’s bedtime stories and classic fairy tales will help your children fall asleep and relax FAST. This wonderful experience will give children a head start in their education and primes the development of key listening skills. Keeping it fun can help form an emotional connection to reading, listening and learning that can last a lifetime.