Stories of Great Literature
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CHAUCER
Tales From Chaucer in Prose
by Charles Cowden Clarke (1833) “My object . . . was, first, that you might become wise and good, by the examples of the sweet and kind creatures you will find described in them; secondly, that you might derive improvement by the beautiful writing . . . and lastly, I hoped to excite you . . . to read these same stories in their original poetical dress . . .” Canterbury Chimes: or, Chaucer Tales Retold for Children
by Francis Storr (1878) “The tales here selected have passed muster with many a childish audience when told by the fireside, and this leads us to hope that they may please a wider circle of young readers in their written form.” Chaucer for Children; a Golden Key
by Mary Haweis (1907) Includes a great story for children about Chaucer and life in his day. “A Chaucer for children may seem to some an impossible story-book, but it is one which I have been encouraged to put together by noticing how quickly my own little boy learned and understood fragments of early English poetry . . . I think much of the construction and pronunciation of old English which seems stiff and obscure to grown up people, appears easily to children.” The Chaucer Story Book
by Eva March Tappan (1908) “It has been somewhat the fashion of late to declare that the difficulty of reading Chaucer has been greatly overestimated . . . I have never met a man, woman, or child who, had ever read Canterbury Tales for pleasure. That is why The Chaucer Story Books has been written.” The Story of Chaucer’s Canterbury Pilgrims
by Katharine Lee Bates (1909) Retold for children in poetic form. CLASSICS
Stories of Don Quixote Written Anew
by James Baldwin John Bunyan’s Dream Story: the Pilgrim’s Progress retold for Children
by James Baldwin (1913) Includes how the book came to be written. “While it was formerly the first and perhaps the only story book read by thousands of children of all ages, it is now known to few young people.” Stories from Plato and Other Classic Writers
by Mary Burt (1894) Hesiod, Home, Aristophanes, Ovid, Catullus, and Pliny An easy reader, suitable for 6-12 year olds. Robinson Crusoe for Boys and Girls
by Lida McMurry (1915) “The language is that of children, and Robinson seems to be telling his story to them.” |
SHAKESPEARE
Historical Tales from Shakespeare
by Arthur Quillen-Couch Corialanus, Julius Caesar, King John, King Richard II, Henry IV, V, VI, Richard III A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Young People
by Lucy Fitch Perkins A Midsummer Night’s DreamIncludes Hamlet, Twelfth Night
Shakespeare’s Stories Simply Told
by Mary Seymour Shakespearian Fairy Tales
by Fay Adam Britten Midsummer Night’s Dream, Merchant of Venice, King Lear, A Winter’s Tale, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, The Tempest, Cymbeline Stories from Shakespeare Volume 1
by Mara Pratt (1890) MacBeth, Hamlet, Othello, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar Stories from Shakespeare Volume 2
by Mara Pratt (1890) Timons of Athens, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet Stories of Shakespeare’s Comedies
by Helene Guerber Stories of Shakespeare’s English History Plays
by Helene Guerber Cymbeline, King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Richard III, Henry VIII The Tempest
ill. by Edmund Dulac Twenty Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
by Edith Nesbit (1907) “To reproduce the entertaining stories . . . in a form so simple that children can understand and enjoy them, was the object had in view by the author.” Includes pronunciation guide and collection of quotations. The Winter’s TaleIncludes Macbeth, Othello
THE FAERIE QUEEN
Stories from the Faerie Queene
by Mary Macleod (1905) “The object of this volume is to excite interest in one of the greatest poems of English literature, which for all its greatness is but little read and known.” |