Thirty more famous stories retold
- Date:
- 1905.
- Author:
- Baldwin, James, 1841-1925.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH B182 T45 1905 LOCAL
- Publisher:
- American Book Co.
- Abstract:
- Presents thirty well-known stories involving such figures as Romulus and Remus, Christopher Columbus, Johann Gutenberg, King John, Hannibal, Balboa, Archimedes, Galileo, James Watt, Julius Caesar, Ulysses, and Penelope.
- Physical Description:
- 235 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Series:
- Eclectic Readings and Eclectic school readings.
- Notes:
- Library's contains publisher's advertisements. LOCAL
- Curator Notes:
- American Book Company (NY/Cinn/Chicgo), c 1905, 12th printing (W.P. 12); Eclectic Readings (cover subtitle);'I have chosen more difficult subjects and have not been so careful to select the shortest and easiest words'; spine titles and front cover titles, rulings and decoration printed in black on olive green cloth
- Subjects:
- Children's stories, Explorers Juvenile literature, Heroes Juvenile literature, Heroes England Juvenile literature, Scientists Juvenile literature, Philosophers Juvenile literature, Biography Juvenile literature, World history Juvenile literature, Mythology, Greek Juvenile literature, Readers, Short stories, Biography, Children's stories, Explorers, Heroes, Kings and rulers, Mythology, Greek, Philosophers, Readers, Scientists, and World history
- Genres/Forms:
- Children's stories 1905, Biographical fiction Juvenile, Historical fiction Juvenile, Short stories Juvenile, Biographical fiction 1905. rbgenr, Readers 1905. rbgenr, Publishers' catalogues 1905. rbgenr, Historical fiction. lcgft, Biographical fiction. lcgft, Historical fiction. gsafd, Biographical fiction. gsafd, Biographical fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction, and Juvenile works
- Geographic Terms:
- Rome Kings and rulers Juvenile literature, Great Britain Kings and rulers Juvenile literature, France Kings and rulers Juvenile literature, England, France, Great Britain, and Rome (Empire)
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