50 Famous Stories Retold
by James Baldwin Author
James Baldwin’s Fifty Famous Stories Retold collects stories that everyone needs to know. Stories that have shaped our culture and are frequently referenced in our songs and literature. Stories include Androcles and the Lion, The Brave Three Hundred, The Sword of Damocles, King Canute and the Sea, Whittington and his Cat, Horatius at the Bridge and many many more. Featuring all the original illustrations, and a large font for easy reading with large words spaced phonetically, this edition includes all fifty stories rearranged to match the Ambleside Online reading order.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781925729030
- Print Status
- In Print
- Stories
- 50
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Living Book Press
- Copyright
- 2017
Stories
- 1 The Sword of Damocles
- 2 Damon and Pythias
- 3 The Laconic Answer
- 4 The Brave Three Hundred
- 5 Alexander and Bucephalus
- 6 Diogenes the Wise Man
- 7 The Story of Regulus
- 8 Cornelia's Jewels
- 9 Horatius at the Bridge
- 10 The Story of Cincinnatus
- 11 Androclus and the Lion
- 12 King Alfred and the Beggar
- 13 The Story of William Tell
- 14 Arnold Winkelried
- 15 Bruce and the Spider
- 16 The Black Douglas
- 17 Whittington and His Cat
- 18 The Inchcape Rock
- 19 Sir Philip Sidney
- 20 The Ungrateful Soldier
- 21 George Washington and His Hatchet
- 22 Doctor Goldsmith
- 23 Casabianca
- 24 Picciola
- 25 How Napoleon Crossed the Alps
- 26 Maximilian and the Goose Boy
- 27 Antonio Canova
- 28 Grace Darling
- 29 The Kingdoms
- 30 King Alfred and the Cakes
- 31 King Canute on the Seashore
- 32 The Sons of William the Conqueror
- 33 The White Ship
- 34 King John and the Abbot
- 35 A Story of Robin Hood
- 36 Three Men of Gotham
- 37 Other Wise Men of Gotham
- 38 The Miller of the Dee
- 39 Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- 40 Sir Walter Raleigh
- 41 Pocahontas
- 42 The Bell of Atri
- 43 Julius Caesar
- 44 The Ungrateful Guest
- 45 Socrates and His House
- 46 The King and His Hawk
- 47 The Barmecide Feast
- 48 The Endless Tale
- 49 The Blind Men and The Elephant
- 50 Mignon
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