Fifty Famous Stories Retold: Tales Every Child Should Know
James Baldwin
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 39 full-page plates by Lambert Barnard, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Thomas Bardwell. Fifty short tales every English-speaking child once knew: Damocles and the sword, Regulus, Alfred and the cakes, William Tell, the sword of Bruce, Grace Darling. Baldwin gathered them for American schools and told each in two pages, without pointing the moral more than once. Whether the stories are true is a question he answers honestly in the preface, and then tells them anyway. Thirty-nine plates after Piranesi, McTaggart and others carry the sweep of the old world these tales belong to, from Roman prisons to the Northumberland coast.
Complete and unabridged, with 39 full-page plates by Lambert Barnard, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Thomas Bardwell. Fifty short tales every English-speaking child once knew: Damocles and the sword, Regulus, Alfred and the cakes, William Tell, the sword of Bruce, Grace Darling. Baldwin gathered ...
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James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and author born in Indiana, a schoolmaster who became a textbook editor and wrote or edited over a hundred books. His retellings of the epics were school reading for decades. His works include The Story of Siegfried, The Story of Roland, A Story of the Golden Age, and The Sampo.
James Baldwin (1841-1925) was an American educator and author born in Indiana, a schoolmaster who became a textbook editor and wrote or edited over a hundred books. His retellings of the epics were school reading for decades. His works include The Story of Siegfried, The Story of Roland, A Story ...
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