Record Added: 8/5/2010 Series The Junior Classics Topic Poetry Collection of Stories Publisher P. F. Collier and Sons Year 1938 Age 9-12 Pages 390 Description Colored cloth binding
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The books include excerpts from novels by such authors as Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson, among many others. Have four titles in 1938 edition of the series:
Volume Two: Stories of Wonder and Magic, Pub 1938, 368 pg. Sections include: - Fun and Nonsense
- From Old Story Books
- Dreams and Enchantments
- Stories by Howard Pyle and Frank R. Stockton
- Stories by Hans Christian Anderson
Volume Three: Myths and Legends, Pub 1948, 364 pg. Sections include: - Stories from the Myths from Greece and Rome
- Stories from the Norse Myths
- Stories from the Jataka Tales of India
- Stories of the American Indian
- Old Legends
Volume Four: Hero Tales, Pub 1938, 377 pg. Sections include: - The Odyssey of Homer
- The Epic of Kings
- The Kalevala
- The Song of Roland
- The Chronicle of the CID
- Beowulf
- King Arthur
- The Mabinogion
- Celtic Heroes
- Robin Hood
Volume Ten: Poetry, Reading Guide, Index, Pub 1938, 390 pg. Sections include: - Nursery Rhymes
- Riddles
- Poems of Childhood and Youth
- Nature's Year
- The World of Creatures
- Fairyland
- Fun and Nonsense
- At Home and at Play
- Friends
- Old Ballads and Stories
- Romance and Adventure
- Looking Forward
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