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• Old Testament Legends: Being Stories Out of Some of the Less-Known Apocryphal Books of the Old Testament, by M. R. James (Gutenberg text)

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• The Chronicles of Jerahmeel, or, The Hebrew Bible Historiale: Being a Collection of Apocryphal and Pseudo-Epigraphical Books Dealing With the History of the World From the Creation to the Death of Judas Maccabeus (1899), ed. by Moses Gaster and El'azar ben Asher ha-Levi (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Great March: Post-Biblical Jewish Stories, Book I, by Rose G. Lurie, illust. by Todros Geller and Belle Baranceanu (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Legends of the Jews (6 public domain volumes), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)
• Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends (New York: Bloch Publishing Co., c1919), by Gertrude Landa (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Tractatus de Diversis Historiis Romanorum et Quibusdam Aliis, Verfasst in Bologna i.j. 1326 (Codex Gudianus 200, in Latin, with German notes; Erlangen: Fr. Junge, 1893), ed. by Salomon Herzstein
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• In the Pale: Stories And Legends of the Russian Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1897), by Henry Iliowizi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study, by William Heaford Daubney (multiple formats at CCEL)

• Jewish Poland: Legends of Origin; Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2001), by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Lenn Schramm (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives from Israel (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c1993), by Aliza Shenhar-Alroy, ed. by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Miriam Widmann, contrib. by Haviva Dayan, Mordekhai Malka, Freha Hafutah, Rabbi Hanania Portal, Yamna Dayan, Yoseph Peretz, Juliette Megera, David Seruya, Asher Dayan, Sultana Shoshan, Ya'acov Edri, and Eliyahu Abu-Hatzera (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Jewish Poland: Legends of Origin; Ethnopoetics and Legendary Chronicles (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c2001), by Hayah Bar-Yitshak, trans. by Lenn Schramm (multiple formats with commentary at Wayne State)

• Jalkut Machiri: Sammlung Halachischer und Hagadischer Stellen aus Talmud und Midraschim zu den 150 Psalmen (2 volumes in Hebrew and/or Yiddish; Berdyczew: J. Scheftel, 1899), by Makir ben Aba Mari, ed. by Salomon Buber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends of Our Fathers: A Collections of Legends from Ancient Rabbinical Writings, From the Creation to Joseph (New York: Sinai Pub. Co., 1921), ed. by Hyman E. Goldin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• En Jacob: Agada of the Babylonian Talmud (in Aramaic, Hebrew, and English translation; 5 volumes; New York: S. H. Glick, c1916-1921), by Jacob ben Solomon Ibn Ḥabib, trans. by S. H. Glick (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Legends of the Jews (6 public domain volumes), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)

• Did Jesus Live 100 B. C.? An Enquiry into the Talmud Jesus Stories, the Toldoth Jeschu, and Some Curious Statements of Epiphanius, Being a Contribution to the Study of Christian Origins (London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1903), by G. R. S. Mead (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Der Golem: Ein Roman ("Gessamelte Werke" v1, in German; Leipzig: K. Wolff, c1915), by Gustav Meyrink (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Golden Mountain: Marvellous Tales of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem and of His Great-Grandson, Rabbi Nachman, Retold From Hebrew, Yiddish and German Sources (New York: Behrman House, c1932), by Meyer Levin, illust. by Marek Szwarc (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Maggid of Mezritch, by Yitzchak Dorfman (frame-dependent HTML at nishmas.org)

• Legends That Every Child Should Know: A Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People, ed. by Hamilton Wright Mabie (Gutenberg text)

• A Collection of Fables, For the Instruction and Amusement of Little Misses and Masters (York, UK: J. Kendrew, ca. 1825) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Tales From Silver Lands (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Page and Co., c1924), by Charles Joseph Finger, illust. by Paul Honoré (page images at HathiTrust)

• Little Laura, the Kentucky Abolitionist: An Address to the Young Friends of the Slave (Newcastle: Printed by T. Pigg and Co., 1859) (page images at Cornell)

• Away We Go (The Road to Safety book A; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1938), by Horace Mann Buckley, Margaret L. White, Alice B. Adams, and Leslie R. Silvernale, illust. by Ottilie Foy (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Iliad for Boys and Girls, Told From Homer in Simple Language (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1907), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Homer
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg audio reading
• The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy, by Padraic Colum, illust. by Willy Pogány
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Jack Wright and His Electric Air Rocket: or, The Boy Exile of Siberia (Boys' star library #341 by "Noname"; c1893), by Luis Senarens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Heroine of the White Nile, or, What a Woman Did and Dared: A Sketch of the Remarkable Travels and Experiences of Miss Alexandrine Tinné (New York: Phillips and Hunt; Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1881), by William Wells (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• The Story of David Livingstone, by Vautier Golding (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Creating Adventure Games On Your Computer (1984), by Tim Hartnell (page images at atariarchives.org)
• Fantasy Games (London: Usborne Pub., c1984), by Les Howarth and Cheryl Evans, ed. by Jenny Tyler and Chris Oxlade, illust. by Chris Riddell, Patrick Lynch, Rob McCaig, Simon Roulstone, and Martin Newton (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Island of Secrets (London: Usborne Pub., 1984), by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth, illust. by Patrick Lynch (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• The Mystery of Silver Mountain (London: Usborne Publishing, 1984), by Chris Oxlade and Judy Tatchell, contrib. by Graham Round, illust. by Chris Riddell and Mark Duffin (PDF at Usborne and Google)
• Adventure Programs (London: Usborne Publishing, c1983), by Jenny Tyler and Les Howarth, contrib. by Roger Priddy and Chris Oxlade, illust. by Penny Simon, Rob McCaig, and Mark Longworth (PDF at Usborne and Google)

• The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Told From Virgil in Simple Language (New York: Macmillan, 1934), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Virgil (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stories From Virgil (London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1879), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Virgil, illust. by Bartolomeo Pinelli (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Two Tales (Bloomington, IN: Text Materials Program, Indiana University, 1963), by Mohammed Yassin Nassimi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, c1920), ed. by Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington, contrib. by Robert Russa Moton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ole Mammy's Torment (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1910 (c1897)), by Annie F. Johnston, illust. by Mary G. Johnston and Amy M. Sacker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ebony Jr! (1973-1985) (partial serial archives)
• Red, Yellow and Black: Tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans (New York and Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, c1918), by Sophia Lyon Fahs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Red, Yellow and Black: Tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans (New York and Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, c1918), by Sophia Lyon Fahs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz (New York: Random House, 1939), by Mabel Louise Robinson, illust. by Lynd Ward (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Farming for Boys: What They Have Done, and What Others May Do, in the Cultivation of Farm and Garden; How to Begin, How to Proceed, and What to Aim At (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), by Edmund Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of King Alfred of England (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872), by Jacob Abbott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• King Alfred of England (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1849), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• An Alphabet Allegorical, Alliterative and Amusing, Appreciable at All Ages (London: Effingham Wilson, 1871), by L. J Hill (page images at Princeton)
• A Bizarre Company (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1913), by G. M. C. Fry (page images at Princeton)

• Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers, by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)
• Book About America (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1850), by Rufus Merrill (multiple formats at archive.org)

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