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 |
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Jazyk: | English |
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New York :
American Book Co.,
1905.
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Edice: | Eclectic school readings.
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Příbuzné jednotky: | Online version:
Thirty more famous stories retold. |
Médium: | Monograph Note that CRL will digitize material from the collection when copyright allows. |
Obsah:
- 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.