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The Fir Tree

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  • Narrator: Gigante, Phil
    Publisher:
    Dreamscape Media, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Originally published in 1844 in one of C. A. Reitzel's New Fairy Tales collections, The Fir Tree is a moralistic tale that reveals the importance of appreciating what you have. In it, a young fir tree is so fixated on growing up that he does not value his life in the forest. But when Christmas comes, he discovers that what he thought he wanted wasn't what he expected it to be. This recording of The Fir Tree was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Classic Christmas Stories: A Collection of Timeless Holiday Tales.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, Myths and folk tales, Juvenile fiction
    Subject(s): Christmas stories | Fairy Tales | Christmas trees | Fir
    Original Publisher: Holland, Ohio, Dreamscape Media, LLC
    Language(s): English

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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    Running Time: 11:48 hrs
    Narrator: Griffin, Gordon
    Publisher:
    Dreamscape Media, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Pyle, Howard
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Howard Pyle's heroic version of Robin Hood begins after a conflict with some foresters leads to Robin of Locksley becoming the outlaw famous for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Each chapter tells a different tale of Robin as he recruits Merry Men, resists the authorities, and aids his fellow man. Pyle's version includes the popular stories of Little John and Robin's staff fight, Friar Tuck's besting of Robin, Robin's collusion with Allan-a-Dale, and several of his conflicts with the Sheriff of Nottingham. Considered the best version of these classic stories, Pyle's The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood has been a favorite for generations.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, Myths and folk tales
    Subject(s): Robin Hood (Legendary character) | Legends | Folklore | England | Great Britain | Outlaws | England--Sherwood Forest | Sheriffs
    Original Publisher: Holland, Ohio, Dreamscape Media, LLC
    Language(s): English

The Death of Ivan Ilyich

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  • Running Time: 02:45 hrs
    Narrator: Shaw-Parker, David
    Publisher:
    Dreamscape Media, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Tolstoy, Leo.
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a passing thought. But one day death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise he is brought face to face with his own mortality. How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? A thoroughly absorbing and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, General fiction
    Subject(s): Death | Disease | Tolstoy, Leo, graf, 1828-1910 | Soviet Union | Sick | Cossacks | Russian literature
    Original Publisher: Holland, Ohio, Dreamscape Media, LLC
    Language(s): English

The House of Mirth

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    Running Time: 13:25 hrs
    Narrator: Berneis, Susie
    Publisher:
    Dreamscape Media, 2013
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Wharton, Edith
    Date:
    Created
    2013
    Summary:

    Lily Bart enjoys an equitable standing within the New York City elite. Although she desires a comfortable life and has received generous proposals from wealthy suitors, Lily remains single with hope for an honest and loving marriage. However, her life takes an unexpected twist when a nasty bit of gossip instigates her long descent down the social ladder. With her reputation plummeting, Lily escapes the city by joining an acquaintance on a European cruise. But this, too, causes irreparable damage to her reputation, and soon Lily finds herself disowned and friendless.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, General fiction
    Subject(s): New York (State)--New York | Single women | Manners and customs | Social classes | Social status | Upper class
    Original Publisher: Holland, Ohio, Dreamscape Media, LLC
    Language(s): English

Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry

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  • Contributor: Recorded Books, Inc.
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    The spirits of Ireland come alive in this nineteenth-century collection of stories, songs, and poems selected and edited by Nobel Prize winner W. B. Yeats. Lose yourself in these supernatural tales of mischievous fairies, changelings, mysterious merrows, solitary leprechauns, shape-changing pookas, wailing banshees, ghosts, dangerous witches, helpful fairy doctors, and massive giants! W. B. Yeats compiled sixty-four works from numerous Irish authors including William Allingham; Thomas Crofton Croker; William Carleton; Letitia Maclintock; Lady Wilde, mother of Oscar Wilde; and Yeats himself, resulting in a comprehensive and definitive collection. Each section features an introduction from Yeats to enlighten readers on the background of its mythical subjects and their role in Irish life and culture. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry includes "The Fairies," "Frank Martin and the Fairies," "The Priest's Supper," "The Stolen Child," "The Soul Cages," "Far Darrig in Donegal," "The Piper and the Puca," "A Lamentation for the Death of Sir Maurice Fitzgerald," "The Black Lamb," "The Horned Women," "The Phantom Isle," and more. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, Myths and folk tales
    Subject(s): FICTION / Classics
    Original Publisher: New York, NY, Open Road Integrated Media
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781504047333

Japanese fairy tales

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  • Publisher:
    Open Road Integrated Media, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Ozaki, Yei Theodora
    Contributor: Recorded Books, Inc.
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Princes, princesses, goblins, ghouls, dragons, and more abound in these twenty-two Japanese fairy tales translated and retold for young Western readers. Prepare to encounter action and adventure in this highly regarded collection of classic Japanese tales, in which you'll meet a dragon king, a talking tortoise, a wily badger, princesses, knights, and mischievous monkeys! Japanese Fairy Tales includes "Momotaro, or the Story of the Son of a Peach," "The Ogre of Rashomon," "The Adventures of Kintaro, the Golden Boy," "The Mirror of Matsuyama," "The Goblin of Adachigahara," "The Sagacious Monkey and the Boar," and more. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, Myths and folk tales
    Subject(s): FICTION / Classics
    Original Publisher: New York, NY, Open Road Integrated Media
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781504047364

Flower fables

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  • Publisher:
    Open Road Integrated Media, 2017
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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  • Author: Alcott, Louisa May
    Contributor: Recorded Books, Inc.
    Date:
    Created
    2017
    Summary:

    Venture to a world of fairies and flowers in this nineteenth-century collection of stories and poems from the beloved author of Little Women. At the tender age of sixteen, Louisa May Alcott's imagination was already in full bloom. From tales she told her neighbor, Ellen, daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, she wove together stories and songs about fairies, elves, talking flowers, and animals. With innocence and whimsy, Alcott revealed the shadowy kingdom of the Frost-King; introduced the vain fairy, Thistledown, and his kindly friend, Lily-Bell; descended into the depths of the sea with Ripple, the water-spirit; and more! The inspiration for the setting of "Fairyland" was in fact the wooded area around Walden Pond owned by Emerson, where Henry David Thoreau would lead the Alcott sisters and their friends on the berry-picking adventures that activated a rich fantasy world in young Alcott's mind. As delicately constructed as a butterfly's wings, these fanciful fables offer a sweet and fascinating glimpse into the imagination of a legendary American writer who had just begun to find her voice. Flower Fables includes"The Frost King: Or, The Power of Love," "Eva's Visit to Fairy-Land," "The Flower's Lesson," "Lily-Bell and Thistledown," "Little Bud," "Clover-Blossom," "Little Annie's Dream: Or, The Fairy Flower," and "Ripple, the Water-SpiritFairy Song."This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, Myths and folk tales, Short stories
    Subject(s): FICTION / Classics
    Original Publisher: New York, NY, Open Road Integrated Media
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781504047388

Grimms' fairy tales

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  • Publisher:
    Plympton, 2016
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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Andersen's fairy tales

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  • Publisher:
    Plympton, 2016
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

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The Arabian nights : tales from a thousand and one nights

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  • Author: Anonymous
    Contributor: Barbosa, Gustavo
    Date:
    Created
    2016
    Summary:

    Furious at being cuckolded, a sultan beds a new virgin each night, then murders each before she can betray him. Only Scheherazade finds a way to keep herself alive: for 1,001 nights she tells the sultan a series of enchanting stories, always timing it so that dawn rises at a moment of nail-biting uncertainty.

    Genre:
    Classic fiction, Myths and folk tales
    Subject(s): Tales | Arabian Peninsula | Arabian nights | Arab countries | Arabs | Fairy Tales
    Original Publisher: San Francisco, CA, Plympton
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781682280799
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