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The Devoted Friend by Oscar Wilde was first published in 1888 in the anthology The Happy Prince and Other Tales. Hans was a little man who owned a beautiful garden, where he grew flowers of all kinds and colours which were sold in the market to make some money. He enjoyed the company of another man called Hugh, a miller who used to visit Hans very often during the summer time and with whom he shared thoughts about friendship and loyalty.

Ein dornenüberwucherter Palast, eine schlafende Kaisertochter und eine Sage, die die Krone verspricht. Die düstere Neuinterpretation des Märchens Dornröschen geht weiter. Erfolgsautor Boris Koch entführt in diesem Fantasyroman in eine dunkle Welt, und der Kampf um Ycena hat begonnen... Der alte Palast in der Ruinenstadt Ycena ist seit Jahrhunderten von einer Dornenhecke überwuchert. Es heißt, in ihm schlafe die Kaisertochter und warte darauf, mit einem Kuss gerettet zu werden. Wer sie erweckt, soll Kaiser werden.

The three tales in this audiobook are adapted from stories told by the peasants in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. They are drawn from some books I found in shops when I visited the former USSR in 1988 as part of a citizen diplomacy group. I was intrigued by these folktales, since my paternal grandmother lived for some time in Odessa in the Ukraine. Also, I found these stories share a common theme - the poor peasant is able to succeed despite obstacles against an unfair ruler.

Die Kinder-und Hausmärchen der Brüder Grimm sind weltweit die größte und berühmteste Märchensammlung und das meistübersetzte deutschsprachige Werk aller Zeiten. Diese ungekürzte Hörbuchausgabe umfasst 273 Märchen: Neben den 200 Märchen und 15 Kinderlegenden der Ausgabe letzter Hand werden sämtliche nur in früheren Auflagen veröffentlichte Märchen dargeboten. Die in Mundart verfassten Märchen werden zusätzlich in hochdeutscher Übersetzung vorgetragen.

Celeste has been cursed since her 16th birthday - just not in the way the rest of the kingdom thinks. All they see is her breath-taking beauty, marred by her foolishness. Only she knows that she retains her brilliant mind. And it's a secret she must keep at all costs. Over the years she's grown accustomed to the necessary deception. After all, her life depends on it. And she's even found a way to protect her kingdom, working from the shadows. But now a dangerous new threat has emerged, one that Celeste can't defeat alone. She needs the help of a newly-arrived prince.

'She's showing no signs of losing her brilliance. She is unparalleled in creating fantasy peopled by finely drawn and complex characters... GIFTS has the simplicity of fairy tale and the power of myth' GUARDIAN 'Le Guin is a writer of phenomenal power' OBSERVER Orrec, the son of the Brantor of...

Frankenstein, first published in 1818, is widely recognised as being one of the first 'science fiction' novels. Starring Michael Maloney as Frankenstein and John Wood as the Creature, this spine-tingling dramatisation perfectly conveys the book's pervasive sense of unease and dread. Victor...

During his journeys around Japan, Smith recorded ancient Japanese myths and legends in his personal diaries. The result is a fascinating collection of historical legends from all over Japan, with themes including ghosts, unrequited love, Shinto landscape, tree and ocean spirits, samurai culture and tales driven by Bushido and Buddhist ethics. Gordon Smith's writing combines a realist style with supernatural elements, resulting in an anthology of 'magic realist' tales which will bewitch and captivate listeners.

Ngày xưa, ở một vùng đất nọ nơi của những con sông và dòng thác gặp nhau có một buôn làng nhỏ sinh sống. Họ sống yên bình bên những nương ngô nương sắn xanh mướt núi rừng. Miền đất của những chàng trai thạo nghề săn bắn, những cô gái khéo tay dệt vải, mọi người sống gắn bó với nhau. Những đứa trẻ của buôn làng đêm đêm trong ngôi nhà Rông vẫn được người già kể cho nghe chuyện về những người con dũng cảm của buôn làng đã diệt trừ thú dữ đem lại cuộc sống ấm no cho mọi người.

An allegory showing how people will see what they want to see even to their own detriment. The plot revolves around politics, love, and warfare in a fictional feudal Asian land.

When Ariadne helped Theseus escape the Minotaur’s labyrinth with the aid of a ball of thread, she led the way for the bewildered victims of a twenty-first century Minotaur. Trapped in an endless maze of Internet chat rooms, a group of mystified strangers find themselves assigned obscure aliases and commanded by the Helmet of Horror, the Minotaur himself.

A boy is murdered and made into a stew by his evil stepmother, who buries his bones beneath a juniper tree outside their house. The boy is reincarnated as a bird who flies forth from the tree and enlists the townspeople to help him exact revenge.

Die Morgenröte stand über dem Schlachtfelde, das die Trojaner als Sieger innehatten. Äneas richtete auf einem Hügel ein Siegeszeichen auf. Der Stamm einer riesigen Eiche, von dem alle Äste abgehauen waren, wurde mit der funkelnden Waffenrüstung des Feldherrn Mezentius bekleidet: rechts wurde der blutige bebuschte Helm, die zerbrochenen Speere des Fürsten, sein Panzer, der zwölfmal von Geschossen getroffen und durchbohrt war, aufgehängt; links der eherne Schild und an seinem Gurte das Schwert in der Scheide von Elfenbein.

In ancient Themiscyra, Hippolyte rules as Queen of the Amazons. Feared throughout Greece, their skills on the battlefield are unrivalled. But when a ship lands on their shores, it brings something more dangerous than the threat of war. It brings a future Hippolyte could never have dreamed of.

One cannot challenge fate alone. In her desperation to save Prometheus, Pandora has recruited Perseus, the son of her greatest enemy. Within the demigod sleeps speed and power no mortal could match. But will he use his abilities to aid her? Before Perseus will consider following Pandora on her quest, he has a mission of his own, leaving Pandora no choice but to accompany him on a journey that will pit them against gods and mythical monsters. And even if they succeed, Pandora must still contend with the burden of the Box...

Thirteen years fleeing witch hunters and the looming threat of death. Nineteen-year-old Remy knows she is possibly the last red witch alive, and she is determined to stay that way. The Northern Court King has slaughtered her home court and placed a bounty on red witch heads. When four fae warriors enter her tavern refuge, Remy tries to flee, but her magic isn’t strong enough to stop a fae prince on a mission.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Eleanor Matsuura, known for AMC's The Walking Dead and Spooks. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Paul Murray. In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs...

Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. The Beast stands ahead of...

Now a STARZ Original Series produced by FremantleMedia North America starring Ricky Whittle, Ian McShane, Emily Browning, and Pablo Schreiber. Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer...

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored and utterly out of place. But her quiet existence is shattered when she stumbles across a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure and danger. Each page reveals more impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.