Thirty more famous stories retold
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235 p. : ill ; 19 cm. - Publisher: New York ; Cincinnati ; Chicago : American Book Co., c1933.
Contents / Notes
General Note: | "Copyright, 1933, by ; Nellie Baldwin."--T.p. verso. Illustrated by A.J. Keller, E.J. Meeker, H.C. Edwards, Victor Perard, and Malcom Fraser. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Columbus and the egg -- "Upon a peak in Darien" -- first story -- "Upon a peak in Darian" -- second story -- The fountain of youth -- "Eureka!" -- Galileo and the lamps -- Sir Isaac Newton and the apple -- The first printer -- John Gutenberg and the voices -- James Watt and the teakettle -- Dr. Johnson and his father -- Webster and the woodchuck -- Friar Bacon and the brazen head -- "As rich as Crœsus" -- The gordian knot -- Why Alexander wept -- King Richard and Blondel -- King John and Prince Arthur -- King John and the Magna Charta -- Frederick Barbarossa -- The man in the iron mask -- The fall of Troy -- Penelope's web -- How Rome was founded -- How Decius Mus saved Rome -- "Delenda est Carthago" -- Hannibal, the hero of Carthage -- Crossing the Rubicon -- The white-headed Zal -- Peter Klaus the goatherd. |
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Genre: | Children's stories -- 1933. Biographical fiction -- 1933. |
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