Another wonderful compilation of stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie! This volume, the 3rd of 12, contains 2 main sections: Classic Tales and Old Fashioned Stories. Of the first section, assistant editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler says, "After our boys and girls have read the first half of this volume, containing selected and simplified stories from some of the greatest books of all time, their authors will cease to be merely names. Homer, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Cervantes and Bunyan will be found here as familiar and easy in style as "Cinderella" or "The Three Bears." The second section's introduction (by GJB) alludes to the fact that modern stories tell a tale 'just' to entertain, but old fashioned stories, such as the ones in this volume, were usually written to teach a moral lesson such as the importance of being just and good or industrious. (Summary by Ellen Preckel... and friends!)
Chapters
1 Introductions 11 min 2 Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Was Knighted 11 min 3 Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Rescued Andres and How He Returned Home 7 min 4 Don Quixote: How Don Quixote And Sancho Panza Started On Their Search For Adventures And How Don Quixote Fought With The Windmills 7 min 5 Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Won A Helmet How He Fought With Two Armies And How Sancho's Ass Was Stolen 8 min 6 Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Saw Dulcinea 7 min 7 Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Fought With A Lion And How He Defeated The Moors 16 min 8 Don Quixote: The Battle With The Bulls; The Fight With The Knight Of The white moon; and How Don Quixote Died 10 min 9 Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Birth And Early Voyages 4 min 10 Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver Is Wrecked On The Coast Of Lilliput 10 min 11 Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver Is Taken As A Prisoner To The Capital Of Lilliput 10 min 12 Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver Is Freed, And Captures The Blefuscan Fleet 15 min 13 Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Escape From Lilliput And Return To England 9 min 14 The Arabian Nights: Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp 28 min 15 The Arabian Nights: The Enchanted Horse 13 min 16 The Arabian Nights: Sinbad The Sailor 27 min 17 The Iliad of Homer: The Story Of What Led To The Siege Of Troy 4 min 18 The Iliad of Homer: The Council 10 min 19 The Iliad of Homer: The Fight Between Paris And Menelaus 10 min 20 The Iliad of Homer: Hector And Andromache 7 min 21 The Iliad of Homer: How Patroclus Fought And Died 7 min 22 The Iliad of Homer: The Rousing Of Achilles 8 min 23 The Odyssey of Homer: What Happened In Ithaca While Odysseus Was Away 14 min 24 The Odyssey of Homer: How Odysseus Came Home 16 min 25 Robinson Crusoe: How Robinson First Went To Sea And How He Was Shipwrecked 9 min 26 Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Works Hard At Making Himself A Home 9 min 27 Robinson Crusoe: The Earthquake And Hurricane And How Robinson Built A Boat 8 min 28 Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Builds A Second Boat, In Which He Is Swept Out To Sea 7 min 29 Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Sees A Footprint On The Sand, Finds A Cave, And Rescues Friday 17 min 30 Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Trains Friday And They Build A Large Boat, They Rescue Two Prisoners From The Cannibals 7 min 31 Robinson Crusoe: Arrival Of An English Ship: Robinson Sails For Home 13 min 32 Canterbury Tales: Dorigen 22 min 33 Canterbury Tales: Emelia 21 min 34 Canterbury Tales: Griselda 18 min 35 The Pilgrim's Progress 57 min 36 Shakespeare: The Tempest 22 min 37 Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 23 min 38 Simple Susan: Queen Of The May 12 min 39 Simple Susan: Bad News 5 min 40 Simple Susan: Susan's Guinea-Fowl 8 min 41 Simple Susan: Susan Visits The Abbey 8 min 42 Simple Susan: Susan's Pet Lamb 9 min 43 Simple Susan: The Blind Harper 8 min 44 Simple Susan: Good News 13 min 45 Simple Susan: Barbara Visits The Abbey 8 min 46 Simple Susan: A Surprise For Susan 6 min 47 Simple Susan: Barbara's Accident 7 min 48 Simple Susan: The Prize-Giving 6 min 49 Simple Susan: Attorney Case In Trouble 5 min 50 Simple Susan: Susan's Birthday 6 min 51 Limby Lumpy 9 min 52 The Sore Tongue 9 min 53 Eyes And No Eyes, Or The Art Of Seeing 12 min 54 Prince Life 25 min 55 The Fruits Of Disobedience, Or The Kidnapped Child 21 min 56 Dicky Random, Or Good Nature Is Nothing Without Good Conduct 18 min 57 Embellishment 20 min 58 The Oyster Patties 10 min 59 Two Little Boys: The Good-Natured Little Boy 7 min 60 Two Little Boys: The Ill-Natured Little Boy 13 min 61 The Purple Jar 11 min 62 The Three Cakes 9 min 63 Amendment 37 min 64 Trial 14 min 65 A Plot Of Gunpowder: An Old Lady Seized For A Guy 22 min 66 Uncle David's Nonsensical Story About Giants And Fairies 18 min 67 The Inquisitive Girl 11 min 68 Busy Idleness 15 min 69 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Introduction 6 min 70 Little Goody Two-Shoes: How And About Little Margery And Her Brother 2 min 71 Little Goody Two-Shoes: How And About Mr. Smith 1 min 72 Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Margery Obtained The Name Of Goody Two-Shoes, And What Happened In The Parish 2 min 73 Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Margery Learned To Read, And By Degrees Taught Others 2 min 74 Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Two-Shoes Became A Trotting Tutoress, And How She Taught Her Young Pupils 6 min 75 Little Goody Two-Shoes: How The Whole Parish Was Frightened 2 min 76 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Containing An Account Of All The Spirits Or Things She Saw In The Church 4 min 77 Little Goody Two-Shoes: Of Something Which Happened To Little Margery Two-Shoes In A Barn, More Dreadful Than The Ghost In The Church, And How She Returned Good For Evil To Her Enemy, Sir Timothy 3 min 78 Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Margery Was Made Principal Of A Country College 2 min 79 Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: Of Her School, Her Ushers, Or Assistants, And Her Manner Of Teaching AND Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: A Scene Of Distress In A School 3 min 80 Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: Of The Amazing Sagacity And Instinct Of A Little Dog 3 min 81 Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: What Happened At Farmer Grove's, And How She Gratified Him For The Use Of His Room 3 min 82 Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: The Case Of Mrs. Margery 5 min 83 Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: The True Use Of Riches 2 min
