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• The Decameron (in Italian and English, with commentary), by Giovanni Boccaccio (HTML at Brown)
• The Decameron: Containing an Hundred Pleasant Novels, Wittily Discoursed, Betweene Seven Honourable Ladies and Three Noble Gentlemen (translation sometimes (but uncertainly) attributed to Florio; London: Printed by I. Jaggard, 1620), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Florio
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Decameron of Boccaccio (London: Chatto and Windus, 1924), by Giovanni Boccaccio, illust. by Thomas Derrick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Snowbound: The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party, by Bram Stoker (HTML at bramstoker.org)
• The Decameron, preserved to posterity (AMS Press, 1967), by Giovanni Boccaccio and Edward Hutton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio (The Limited editions club, 1930), by Giovanni Boccaccio, Frances Winwar, and Limited Editions Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• A staircase of stories (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), by Louey Chisholm and Amy Steedman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio ([s.n., 1921), by Giovanni Boccaccio, Louis Chalon, and J. M. Rigg (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio ([s.n.], 1895), by Giovanni Boccaccio and John Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Decameron (F. A. Brockhaus, 1877), by Giovanni Boccaccio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Décaméron de Jean Bocace (A. Lemerre, 1882), by Giovanni Boccaccio, Frédéric Dillaye, and Antoine Le Maçon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer : a modern rendering into prose of the Prologue and ten tales (Fox, Duffield, 1904), by Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter Appleton Clark, and Percy MacKaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• From outer space, by Robert Zacks, illust. by Alex Schomburg (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Crystal Circe, by Henry Kuttner, illust. by John B. Musacchia (Gutenberg ebook)
• Told by the Colonel, by W. L. Alden, illust. by Hal Hurst and Richard Jack (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Crater, by Robert Gore Browne (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of Gombi, by H. De Vere Stacpoole (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Voyage of Vanishing Men, by Stanley Mullen, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mind Worms, by Moses Schere, illust. by Al McWilliams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Time Trap, by Frank Belknap Long, illust. by Earl Mayan (Gutenberg ebook)
• And the Gods Laughed, by Fredric Brown, illust. by Ronald Clyne (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mountain of Fears, by Henry C. Rowland (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Decameron (Day 6 to Day 10): Containing an hundred pleasant Novels, by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Florio (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Decameron (Day 1 to Day 5): Containing an hundred pleasant Novels, by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Florio (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Night Club, by Herbert George Jenkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories: With Illustrations, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Around the Camp-fire, by Charles G. D. Roberts, illust. by Charles Copeland (Gutenberg ebook)
• Novelleja Decameronesta (in Finnish), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by Joel Lehtonen, contrib. by Werner Soderhjelm (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adventures of a Modest Man, by Robert W. Chambers, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jacques le fataliste et son maître (in French), by Denis Diderot, ed. by Jules Assézat (Gutenberg ebook)
• Quick Action, by Robert W. Chambers, illust. by Edmund Frederick (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cassowary; What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains, by Stanley Waterloo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tales from the Veld, by Ernest Glanville, illust. by M. Nisbet (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Wood Fire in No. 3, by Francis Hopkinson Smith, illust. by Alonzo Kimball (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic, by Olive Thorne Miller, illust. by Ethel N. Farnsworth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio, by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by John Payne (Gutenberg ebook)
• De Decamerone van Boccaccio (in Dutch), by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by J. K. Rensburg (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tales of Destiny, by Edmund Mitchell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Decameron, Volume II, by Giovanni Boccaccio, trans. by J. M. Rigg (Gutenberg ebook)
• London fairy tales (London: Leonard Smithers and Co., 1899), by Arthur W. Lewis (page images at Florida)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Living With Stories: Telling, Re-Telling, and Remembering (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2008), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• ...So They Understand...: Cultural Issues in Oral History (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2002), ed. by William S. Schneider (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• The Art of Story-Telling, With Nearly Half a Hundred Stories (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1916), by Julia Darrow Cowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of the Story-Teller (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1917 (c1915)), by Marie L. Shedlock (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Educating by Story-Telling: Showing the Value of Story-Telling as an Educational Tool For the Use of All Workers With Children (Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY: World Book Co., 1919), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• How to Tell a Story, and Other Essays, by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Tell Stories to Children and Some Stories to Tell, by Sara Cone Bryant (Gutenberg text)
• Children's Stories and How to Tell Them (Springfield, MA: Home Correspondence School, c1917), by J. Berg Esenwein and Marietta Stockard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• More Magic Pictures of the Long Ago: Stories of the People of Many Lands, With Reproductions From Works of Art and Old Manuscripts (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1920), by Anna Curtis Chandler (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Stories Children Need (Springfield, MA et al: Milton Bradley Co., c1916), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Storytellers: Six Months With the Storytellers' Magazine (compilation from early issues; New York: Storytellers Co., 1915) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (HTML at Virginia)
• Good Stories for Great Holidays, ed. by Frances Jenkins Olcott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• Text-book for the story writer. (Row, Peterson & company, 1911), by Harriott Ely Fansler (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to tell a story, and other essays (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897), by Mark Twain, Ernest Ingold, Orion Clemens, Ernest Ingold Collection of Mark Twain (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), American Wit and Humor Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library). Franklin J. Meine Collection, and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from the ballads of Robin Hood, with lists of other ballads to tell and to read aloud. Outlines for story-telling to children over nine years of age. (Carnegie library, 1924), by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lists of stories and programs for story hours (The H. W. Wilson company, 1925), by Effie Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lists of stories and programs for story hours (Pub. for the St. Louis public library by the H. W. Wilson company, 1915), by St. Louis Public Library and Effie Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the story teller (Milton Bradley company, 1913), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good citizenship through story telling; a textbook for teachers, social workers, and home-makers (The Macmillan company, 1923), by Mildred P. Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of addressing children. (J. Clarke & co. limited, 1924), by Harry Jeffs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story telling; what to tell and how to tell it (A. C. McClurg & co., 1923), by Edna Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the story-teller (Dover Publications, 1952), by Marie L. Shedlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to tell stories to children (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1905), by Sara Cone Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories, a list of stories to tell and to read aloud, alphabetically arranged, followed by a subject index. (New York Public Library, 1949), by New York Public Library and Eulalie Marna Steinmetz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Educating by story-telling; showing the value of story-telling as an educational tool for the use of all workers with children (World Book Company, 1918), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the storyteller. (New York, 1950), by National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the storyteller. Rev. (New York, 1954), by National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Storytelling. (Broadman Press, 1956), by Claudia Royal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place of the story in early education, and other essays (Ginn & company, 1892), by Sara Eliza Wiltse (page images at HathiTrust)
• World stories retold for modern boys and girls : one hundred and eighty-seven five-minute classic stories for retelling in home, Sunday School, children's services, public school grades, and "the story-hour" in public libraries, with practical suggestions for telling (The Griffith & Rowland Press, 1914), by William James Sly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living with stories : telling, re-telling, and remembering (Utah State University Press, 2008), by Aron Crowell and William S. Schneider (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magic pictures of the long ago : stories of the people of many lands (Holt, 1918), by Anna Curtis Chandler and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of stories (American institute of child life, 1915), by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories and story-telling in moral and religious education (The Pilgrim press, 1910), by Edward Porter St. John (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stories and story-telling (D. Appleton, 1911), by Angela M. Keyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story telling, what to tell and how to tell it (A. C. McClurg, 1911), by Edna Lyman Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fairy stories to tell and suggestions for the story teller. (The H.W. Wilson Co., 1915), by Cleveland Public Library and Nina C. Brotherton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story telling : what to tell and how to tell it (A. C. McClurg, 1914), by Edna Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The teachers' story teller's book (Rand McNally, 1913), by Alice O'Grady and Frances Throop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling in school and home; a study in educational aesthetics (Sturgis & Walton company, 1912), by Emelyn Newcomb Partridge and G. E. Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the story-teller (D. Appleton, 1915), by Marie L. Shedlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling, questioning and studying, three school arts. (Macmillan, 1917), by Herman Harrell Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the story teller; story telling and stories to tell (Milton Bradley Company, 1920), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tekhnika rasskazyvanii͡a (Gos. izd-vo, 1925), by N. M. Glagoleva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• More magic pictures of the long ago; stories of the people of many lands; with reproductions from works of art and old manuscripts. (H. Holt, 1920), by Anna Curtis Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Life and manners. A volume of stories suitable for the moral instruction of children (S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1906), by Frederick James Gould (page images at HathiTrust)
• Japanese story-tellers (T. Hasegawa, 1899), by Jules Adam and Osman Edwards (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Children's stories and how to tell them (Gryphon Books, 1971), by Woutrina Agatha Bone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's stories and how to tell them (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1924), by Woutrina A. Bone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling in school and home; a study of educational æsthetics (Sturgis & Walton company, 1914), by Emelyn Newcomb Partridge and G. E. Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling for upper grade teachers (Row, Peterson and Company, 1918), by Allen Cross and Nellie Margaret Statler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The wonder garden; nature myths and tales from all the world over for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919), by Frances Jenkins Olcott and Milo Winter (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of eastern stories and legends for narration or later reading in schools (George Routledge & sons;, 1910), by Marie L. Shedlock (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conduct stories : a volume of stories for the moral instruction of children (G. Allen & Unwin, 1914), by Frederick James Gould (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Telling Bible stories (C. Scribner's Sons, 1905), by Louise Seymour Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories for any day (The Pilgrim Press, 1917), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling lessons (The Judson press, 1921), by Henry E. Tralle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Best stories to tell to children (Houghton Mifflin company, 1912), by Sara Cone Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• A List of good stories to tell to children under twelve years of age : with a brief account of the story hour conducted by the Children's Department (Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1906), by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second book of stories for the story-teller (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913), by Fanny E Coe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story telling, what to tell and how to tell it (A.C. McClurg & co., 1910), by Edna Lyman Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Course for the storyteller, an outline (The H.W. Wilson company, 1943), by Ruth Galbraith and Rutgers University. New Jersey college for women (page images at HathiTrust)
• Educating by story-telling; showing the value of story-telling as an educational tool for the use of all workers with children (World book company, 1924), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tell me a story : why stories are essential to effective safety training (Dept. of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 2005), by E. T. Cullen, Albert H. Fein, and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• The storytellers; six months with the Storytellers' magazine (The Storytellers company, 1915), by The Storytellers' magazine (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of story-teller (D. Appleton and company, 1915), by Marie L. Shedlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling in the home (American institute of child life, 1914), by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of stories (American institute of child life, 1915), by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling in the home (American institute of child life, 1900), by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories and story-telling in moral and religious education. (The Pilgrim press, 1918), by Edward Porter St. John (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place of the story in early education, and other essays (Ginn & company, 1892), by Sara E. Wiltse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral instruction in the public schools through the story ([Salem], 1922), by Oregon. Office of superintendent of public instruction and Julius Churchill (page images at HathiTrust)
• In school and out (Matthews and Dougherty, 1922), by Maurice Goodkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling, questioning and studying, three school arts (Macmillan, 1916), by Herman Harrell Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good stories for great holidays, arranged for story-telling and reading aloud and for the children's own reading (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914), by Frances Jenkins Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arabian nights' entertainments (Longmans Green and Co., 1898), by Andrew Lang, H. J. Ford, Spottiswoode & Co, and Green Longmans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lügendichtungen bis auf Münchhausen (G. Olms, 1881), by Karl Müller-Fraureuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the story-teller (D. Appleton-Century Co., 1936), by Marie L. Shedlock and Mary Gould Davis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of story-telling : with nearly half a hundred stories (A. C. McClurg & co., 1914), by Julia Darrow Cowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of story-telling (J. Murray, 1915), by Marie L. Shedlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Telling Bible stories (Scribner, 1911), by Louise Seymour Houghton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Favorite tales for story-telling (A, Flanagan company, 1924), by Julia Cowles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• For the children's hour (M. Bradley company, 1906), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey and Clara M. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of story-telling : studies in the development of narrative (F.A. Stokes, 1910), by Arthur Ransome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story telling for teachers of beginners and primary children (Printed for the Teacher Training Publishing Association by The Caxton Press, 1921), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the story teller : story telling and stories to tell (Milton Bradley, 1913), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The place of the story in early education : and other essays. (Ginn & Co., 1902), by Sara E. Wiltse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-telling circular. ([Cleveland, in the 1900s), by Edna Whiteman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Second manual for training in worship (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921), by Hugh Hartshorne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of the story in religious education (George H. Doran company, 1920), by Margaret Eggleston (page images at HathiTrust)
• A kindergarten story book (M. Bradley company, 1906), by Jane L. Hoxie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worth while stories for every day (Milton Bradley company, 1917), by Lawton B. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kindergarten stories and morning talks (Ginn & Company, 1892), by Sara E. Wiltse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from the Norse: historical tales, myths and sagas; outlines for story-telling to children over nine years of age. (Carnegie Library, 1914), by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lists of stories and programs for story hours (The H.WH. Wilson company; [etc., etc.], 1921), by St. Louis Public Library and Effie Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of the story-teller. (D. Appleton and company, 1927), by Marie L. Shedlock (page images at HathiTrust)
• A manual of stories. (G. W. Jacobs & co., 1915), by William Byron Forbush (page images at HathiTrust)
• Educating by story-telling; showing the value of story-telling as an educational tool for the use of all workers with children (World book company, 1920), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story telling. (D. Appleton, 1916), by Angela M. Keyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the children's hour (Milton Bradley Co., 1916), by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (page images at HathiTrust)
• "Read me a story!" : ... a guide for producing a reading series on local television. (Illinois Dept. on Aging, 2000), by Barnes & Noble Books, Access 4 Springfield, Illinois State Library, and Illinois. Dept. on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to tell a story. (Prentice-Hall, 1963), by Edward J. Hegarty (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A guide to story telling. (Sir I. Pitman & sons, ltd., 1926), by Arthur Burrell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of story-telling (A. Flanagan, 1924), by Julia Darrow Cowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Educating by story-telling; showing the value of story-telling as an educational tool for the use of all workers with children (World book company, 1922), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• For the storyteller. (National recreation association, 1938), by Mary J. Breen and National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Educating by story-telling : showing the value of story-telling as an educational tool for the use of all workers with children (World Book Co., 1926), by Katherine Dunlap Cather (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children and parents go to "school" : a year's program with preschool children and their parents. (Public Library of Newark, New Jersey, 1953), by Newark Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story-hour favorites, selected for library, school, and home use (The Century Co., 1918), by Wilhelmina Harper (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heart of a boy : (Cuore) a story (Laird & Lee, 1895), by Edmondo De Amicis, Gaetano Ettore Raffaele Mantellini, and Publishers Laird & Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• For the storyteller. (New York : National Recreation Association, [1945?], 1945), by National Recreation Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Educating by story-telling : showing the value of story-telling as an educational tool for the use of all workers with children (G.G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1919), by Katherine Dunlap Cather, Fernand Gabriel Renier, Anne Renier, Clark W. Hetherington, M. L. Haskell, Scotland) Riverside Press (Edinburgh, National Art Library (Great Britain). Renier Collection of Historic and Contemporary Children's Books, J.J. Banks & Son, and George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar illustration of the principles of Christian truth (William Peirce, 1835), by Jacob Abbott, 1489?-1534 Correggio, Denison Kimberly, and William Peirce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art of Story-Telling, with nearly half a hundred stories, by Julia Darrow Cowles (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories and Story-telling, by Angela M. Keyes (Gutenberg ebook)
• Types of Prose Narratives: A Text-Book for the Story Writer, by Harriott Ely Fansler (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Art of Story-Telling, by Marie L. Shedlock, contrib. by John Adams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Educating by Story-Telling: Showing the Value of Story-Telling as an Educational Tool for the Use of All Workers with Children, by Katherine Dunlap Cather (Gutenberg ebook)
• For the Story Teller: Story Telling and Stories to Tell, by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (Gutenberg ebook)
• World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: One Hundred and Eighty-seven Five-minute Classic Stories for Retelling in Home, Sunday School, Children's Services, Public School Grades and "The Story-hour" in Public Libraries, by William James Sly (Gutenberg ebook)
• Worth While Stories for Every Day, ed. by Lawton B. Evans (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories to Read or Tell from Fairy Tales and Folklore, ed. by Laure Claire Foucher, illust. by Ada Budell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories, ed. by Franklin K. Mathiews (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Book of Stories for the Story-teller, by Fanny E. Coe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours, ed. by Effie Power (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories to Tell Children: Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling, by Sara Cone Bryant (Gutenberg ebook)

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