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The Junior Classics (Vol 1-9) - Children's Literary Odyssey: Fables Fairy Tales and Animal Stories from Around the World - cover

The Junior Classics (Vol 1-9) - Children's Literary Odyssey: Fables Fairy Tales and Animal Stories from Around the World

William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hans Christian Andersen, Jacob Abbott, Andrew Lang, John Bunyan, Thomas Bulfinch, Rebecca Harding Davis, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Edward Everett Hale, Jacob Grimm, Sophie May, Jean Ingelow, Emerson Hough, Charles Perrault, Flora Annie Steel, Geoffrey Chaucer, Virgil Virgil, Joseph Jacobs, Frances Browne, Elsie Finnimore Buckley, Elizabeth Harrison, George Webbe Dasent, Livy, Albert Lee, Henry W. Longfellow, E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, E. S. Brooks, H. R. Schoolcraft, P.C. Asbjornsen, Cornelius Mathews, Frederick Orin Bartlett, Louisa M. Alcott, Paul Sébillot, Homer Homer, William Grimm, E. Frere, Ramaswami Raju, Hermann R. Kletke, John T. Naaké, Lillian M. Gask, W. S. Karajich, Adele M. Fielde, Mary Pamela Milne-Horne, Mme. d'Aulnoy, Constance Maud, George W. Cox, Annie Ker

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

The Junior Classics, edited by William Patten, is a captivating anthology of children's stories and tales that spans a wide array of genres and cultures.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales
Tales of the American Indians
Tales from India
Tales from the Norseland
Tales from France, Spain, and Poland
Tales from Russia
Tales from Serbia
An Irish Tale
Tales from China and Japan
A Tale from New Guinea
A Tale from Jamaica
Some Old Favorites
The Fables of Aesop
Volume 2: Folk Tales and Myths
Stories from Northern Sagas
The Story of Brunhilda and Siegfried
The Story of Lohengrin
Three Tales of the Rhine
Myths of Greece and Rome
Two Tales of the Hudson
Some Animal Myths of Various Lands
Three Stories of the Seasons
Volume 3: Tales From Greece and Rome
Old Greek Tales
Tales of the Trojan War
The Homeward Voyage of the Greek Hero, Ulysses
The Wanderings of Æneas
Stories from Roman History
Volume 4: Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry
The Story of King Arthur
The Mabinogion
Tales from Early English Chronicles
Tales Told by Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims
Tales from French and Italian Chronicles
The Spanish Chronicle of the Cid
Tales of Robin Hood
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old
Arabian Nights
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver's Travels
The Plays of Shakespeare
Pilgrim's Progress
The Startling Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
The Race for the Silver Skates
Nelly's Hospital
A Fox and a Raven
The Private Theatricals
A Case of Coincidence
The Flight of the Dolls
Solomon John Goes for Apples
Wild Robin
Deacon Thomas Wales' Will
Dill
Brownie and the Cook
Brownie and the Cherry Tree
The Ouphe of the Wood
The Prince's Dream
A Lost Wand
Snap-Dragons
Uncle Jack's Story
Bryda's Dreadful Scrape
The Cratchits' Christmas Dinner
The Great Stone Face
The King of the Golden River
The Two Gifts
The Bar of Gold
Uncle David's Nonsensical Story
The Grand Feast
The Story of Fairyfoot
Alice in Wonderland
Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism
Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
Volume 9: Stories of To-Day
Available since: 04/19/2024.
Print length: 3218 pages.

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