Fifty Famous Stories Retold
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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.
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- FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD
- JAMES BALDWIN
- AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO
- CONTENTS.
- CONCERNING THESE STORIES.
- FIFTY FAMOUS STORIES RETOLD.
- 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.
- I. THE THREE QUESTIONS.
- II. THE THREE ANSWERS.
- 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.
- I. THE CITY.
- II. THE KITCHEN.
- III. THE VENTURE.
- IV. THE CAT.
- V. THE FORTUNE.
- CASABIANCA.
- ANTONIO CANOVA.
- PICCIOLA.
- MIGNON.
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