Mermaid's Message and Other Stories-Various

Pot of Gold and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman.Celebrated prolific 19th century author of dozens of short stories and novels brings us a wistful and whimsical collection of delightful children's fancies and tales of New England life for which she is known.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair.May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories is a collection of short stories filled with macabre, romantic, and Gothic themes. Enjoy tales of love and loss, murder, philosophy, and supernatural happenings.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum.This collection of fantasy stories was originally serialized in regional newspapers, prior to being published as a complete volume. The stories, as critics have noted, lack the high-fantasy aspect of the best of Baum's work, in Oz or out.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Tales from Silver Lands by Charles Finger.The 1925 Newbery Medal Winner for best children's literature published in the United States, this collection of Central and South American indigenous folk tales holds stories that will still be new to most North American ears. Full of cultural charm, these tales also hold the same degree of strangeness, flights of fancy, and fearful shadows that can be found in the tales of European-based folklore. This book is entertaining for adults as well as children.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Charles Perrault.This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Montezuma's Castle and Other Weird Tales by Charles B. Cory.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.This episode includes AI-generated content.

Three Stories & Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway.The author arranged for this collection of three short stories and ten poems to be printed in a small run of 300 copies in Dijon (France.) The book entered into the public domain in 2019.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Strange Story Book by Leonora Blanche Lang.A collection of stories compiled by the widow of the renowned children's short-story collector, Andrew Lang. She describes this as the final installment of his series of fairy stories and includes some of those stories he had not included in other collections. In the preface, she pays tribute to her husband, saying he liked old things more than new, he loved all beasts' because they were beasts', fairies, cricket and dancing. He longed to visit far away places, but hated to travel. But most of all he befriended children wherever he went and they shared stories with him. Only his own children mocked him.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories by P. H. Emerson.A collection of Welsh Fairy tales. These tales were collected by me whilst living in Anglesea during the winter 1891-2. With the exception of the French story, they were told me and I took them down at the time. In most cases I have done but little "editing", preferring to give the stories as told. P. H. Emerson, April 1894.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.

Literary Sense by E. Nesbit.A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Many of her books have been made into television series or films. She wrote for both adults and children and also wrote non-fiction and poetry.Featured on Literary Tales Collection.Public-domain recording courtesy of LibriVox (librivox.org).This episode includes AI-generated content.