Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)
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1896
English
- Concerning These Stories
- King Alfred and the Cakes
- King Alfred and the Beggar
- King Canute on the Seashore
- The Sons of William the Conqueror
- The White Ship
- King John and the Abbot
- A Story of Robin Hood
- Bruce and the Spider
- The Black Douglas
- Three Men of Gotham
- Other Wise Men of Gotham
- The Miller of the Dee
- Sir Philip Sidney
- The Ungrateful Soldier
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Pocahontas
- George Washington and his Hatchet
- Grace Darling
- The Story of William Tell
- Arnold Winkelried
- The Bell of Atri
- How Napoleon Crossed the Alps
- The Story of Cincinnatus
- The Story of Regulus
- Cornelia's Jewels
- Androclus and the Lion
- Horatius at the Bridge
- Julius Cæsar
- The Sword of Damocles
- Damon and Pythias
- A Laconic Answer
- The Ungrateful Guest
- Alexander and Bucephalus
- Diogenes the Wise Man
- The Brave Three Hundred
- Socrates and his House
- The King and his Hawk
- Doctor Goldsmith
- The Kingdoms
- The Barmecide Feast
- The Endless Tale
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
- Maximilian and the Goose Boy
- The Inchcape Rock
- Whittington and his Cat
- Casabianca
- Antonio Canova
- Picciola
- Mignon
Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people; a few are of quite recent origin (Excerpt from text)
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