Thirty more famous stories retold /

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.

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OCLC:1691968
Autor principal: Baldwin, James, 1841-1925
Altres autors: Keller, A. J. (Illustrador), Meeker, Edwin J. (Illustrador), Edwards, H. C. (Harry C.), 1868-1922 (Illustrador), Perard, Victor (Illustrador), Fraser, Malcolm (Illustrador)
Idioma:English
Publicat: New York : American Book Co., 1905.
Col·lecció:Eclectic school readings.
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Publicació relacionada:Online version: Thirty more famous stories retold.
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Monograph

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Taula de continguts:
  • Columbus and the egg
  • "Upon a peak in Darien" first story
  • "Upon a peak in Darian" second story
  • The fountain of youth
  • "Eureka!"
  • Galileo and the lamps
  • Sir Isaac Newton and the apple
  • The first printer
  • John Gutenberg and the voices
  • James Watt and the teakettle
  • Dr. Johnson and his father
  • Webster and the woodchuck
  • Friar Bacon and the brazen head
  • "As rich as Crœsus"
  • The gordian knot
  • Why Alexander wept
  • King Richard and Blondel
  • King John and Prince Arthur
  • King John and the Magna Charta
  • Frederick Barbarossa
  • The man in the iron mask
  • The fall of Troy
  • Penelope's web
  • How Rome was founded
  • How Decius Mus saved Rome
  • "Delenda est Carthago"
  • Hannibal, the hero of Carthage
  • Crossing the Rubicon
  • The white-headed Zal
  • Peter Klaus the goatherd.