Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories
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About This Book
James Baldwin was an American educator and administrator. After his career as an educator he began writing on such topics as legends, mythology, biography, and literature. Fifty Famous People is comprised of short stories about people, some more famous than others. The stories cannot be strictly called biographical but there is truth in each of them. Each person has had a lasting influence and an ethical lesson can be found in each story. Baldwin also wrote Fifty Famous Stories Retold.
Chapters (70)
- FIFTY FAMOUS PEOPLE
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- SAVING THE BIRDS
- SAVING THE BIRDS
- ANOTHER BIRD STORY
- SPEAKING A PIECE
- WRITING A COMPOSITION
- THE WHISTLE
- THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD
- II
- A BOY'S SONG
- THE CALIPH AND THE POET
- "BECOS! BECOS! BECOS!"
- A LESSON IN HUMILITY
- THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
- THE BOY AND THE WOLF
- ANOTHER WOLF STORY
- II
- THE HORSESHOE NAILS
- II
- THE LANDLORD'S MISTAKE
- A LESSON IN MANNERS
- GOING TO SEA
- THE SHEPHERD-BOY PAINTER
- TWO GREAT PAINTERS
- THE KING AND THE BEES
- OUR FIRST GREAT PAINTER
- THE YOUNG SCOUT
- THE LAD WHO RODE SIDESADDLE
- THE WHISPERERS
- HOW A PRINCE LEARNED TO READ
- II
- "READ, AND YOU WILL KNOW"
- THE YOUNG CUPBEARER
- II
- III
- THE SONS OF THE CALIPH
- THE BOY AND THE ROBBERS
- A LESSON IN JUSTICE
- THE GENERAL AND THE FOX
- THE BOMB
- A STORY OF OLD ROME
- SAVED BY A DOLPHIN
- "LITTLE BROTHERS OF THE AIR"
- A CLEVER SLAVE
- ONE OF AESOP'S FABLES
- THE DARK DAY
- THE SURLY GUEST
- III
- THE STORY OF A GREAT STORY
- THE KING AND THE PAGE
- THE HUNTED KING
- "TRY, TRY AGAIN!"
- WHY HE CARRIED THE TURKEY
- THE PADDLE-WHEEL BOAT
- THE CALIPH AND THE GARDENER
- THE COWHERD WHO BECAME A POET
- II
- THE LOVER OF MEN
- THE CHARCOAL MAN AND THE KING
- WHICH WAS THE KING?
- THE GOLDEN TRIPOD
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- FIFTY FAMOUS PEOPLE
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