All Ages
Timeless stories the whole family can enjoy together. No age limit on great storytelling.
Russian Folk Tales
All Ages
The Tsarevna Frog
The Tsarevna Frog: [Illustration] In an old, old Russian tsarstvo, I do not know when, there lived a sovereign prince with the princess his wife. They had
Arabian Nights
All Ages
The Story of the Slave Kafur
An enslaved boy in the Arabian Nights tells one lie a year. The year his lie convinces a whole household their master is dead, and the master that his household is dead, a city is thrown into mourning over corpses that never existed - a comic, unsettling parable on the runaway speed of a falsehood.
Arabian Nights
All Ages
The Story of Ghanim ibn Ayyub, the Slave of Love
Locked out of Baghdad at nightfall, the young Damascus merchant Ghanim finds a living woman sealed in a chest among the tombs - and loves her so honourably he will not touch her. One of the great romances of the Arabian Nights.
Arabian Nights
All Ages
The Barber’s Story of His Fifth Brother
The barber's fifth brother, Al-Nashshar, invested his whole inheritance in glassware and, lost in a daydream of the fortune it would bring, kicked over the tray and shattered everything - the Arabian Nights tale that gave English the word 'Alnaschar'.
Arabian Nights
All Ages
The Barber’s Story of Himself
The comic Arabian Nights tale of the self-styled Silent Barber - the busybody who climbs uninvited into a stranger's boat, lands in chains before the Caliph, and still cannot hear how he sounds.
Arabian Nights
All Ages
The Tale of the Three Apples
The Tale of the Three Apples from the Arabian Nights - one of the earliest murder mysteries ever told. A locked chest pulled from the Tigris, a three-day deadline, and a husband undone by his own haste.
Japanese Folk Tales
All Ages
An Old Chinese Story
An Old Chinese Story: Long, long ago there lived a great Chinese Empress who succeeded her brother the Emperor Fuki. It was the age of giants, and the Empress
Japanese Folk Tales
All Ages
How An Old Man Lost His Wen
How An Old Man Lost His Wen: Many, many years ago there lived a good old man who had a wen like a tennis-ball growing out of his right cheek. This lump was a
Japanese Folk Tales
All Ages
The Ogre Of Rashomon
The Ogre Of Rashomon: Long, long ago in Kyoto, the people of the city were terrified by accounts of a dreadful ogre, who, it was said, haunted the Gate of
Japanese Folk Tales
All Ages
Momotaro, Or The Story Of The Son Of A Peach
Momotaro, Or The Story Of The Son Of A Peach: Long, long ago there lived, an old man and an old woman; they were peasants, and had to work hard to earn their
Japanese Folk Tales
All Ages
The Story Of Prince Yamato Take
The Story Of Prince Yamato Take: The insignia of the great Japanese Empire is composed of three treasures which have been considered sacred, and guarded with
Japanese Folk Tales
All Ages
The White Hare And The Crocodiles
The White Hare And The Crocodiles: Long, long ago, when all the animals could talk, there lived in the province of Inaba in Japan, a little white hare. The