Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)
by James Baldwin
About this book
Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people; a few are of quite recent origin (Excerpt from text)
Chapters (50)
1King Alfred and the Cakes
2King Alfred and the Beggar
3King Canute on the Seashore
4The Sons of William the Conqueror
5The White Ship
6King John and the Abbot
7A Story of Robin Hood
8Bruce and the Spider
9The Black Douglas
10Three Men of Gotham
11Other Wise Men of Gotham
12The Miller of the Dee
13Sir Philip Sidney
14The Ungrateful Soldier
15Sir Humphrey Gilbert
16Sir Walter Raleigh
17Pocahontas
18George Washington and his Hatchet
19Grace Darling
20The Story of William Tell
21Arnold Winkelried
22The Bell of Atri
23How Napoleon Crossed the Alps
24The Story of Cincinnatus
25The Story of Regulus
26Cornelia's Jewels
27Androclus and the Lion
28Horatius at the Bridge
29Julius Cæsar
30The Sword of Damocles
31Damon and Pythias
32A Laconic Answer
33The Ungrateful Guest
34Alexander and Bucephalus
35Diogenes the Wise Man
36The Brave Three Hundred
37Socrates and his House
38The King and his Hawk
39Doctor Goldsmith
40The Kingdoms
41The Barmecide Feast
42The Endless Tale
43The Blind Men and the Elephant
44Maximilian and the Goose Boy
45The Inchcape Rock
46Whittington and his Cat
47Casabianca
48Antonio Canova
49Picciola
50Mignon
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