Classics Retold – World's Greatest Tales Adapted for the Youngest
Timeless Myths, Quests, Adventures, and Shakespearean Tales for Young ReadersBy Homer, John Bunyan, Geoffrey Chaucer, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Dickens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Winston Stokes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Andrew Lang, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb
Length34h 51m
About this audiobook
Classics Retold – World's Greatest Tales Adapted for the Youngest brings foundational narratives of Western literature into forms designed for early readers. Its selections range from epic adventure and medieval pilgrimage to picaresque satire, moral fable, historical fiction, and domestic tale, demonstrating how enduring plots can survive changes in audience and idiom. Episodes associated with Odyssean wandering, Quixotic misadventure, Gulliver's strange voyages, and Dickensian social observation stand beside stories shaped for clarity, wonder, and imaginative discovery. The volume gathers canonical writers whose works helped define classical epic, romance, the novel, satire, children's literature, and social reform, alongside mediators such as Jennie Hall, Andrew Lang, Charles and Mary Lamb, E. Boyd Smith, and Winston Stokes. Their retellings participate in the long cultural practice of transmitting inherited literature through adaptation. Collectively, these voices preserve major narrative traditions while reconsidering their language, scale, and ethical emphasis for young audiences. This collection is recommended for readers, families, and classrooms seeking an inviting introduction to literary history. It offers a valuable opportunity to compare genres, cultures, and storytelling methods within one accessible volume. By placing adaptations in dialogue with their celebrated sources, the book encourages both pleasure in narrative and thoughtful inquiry into how classics are renewed for successive generations.
Audiobook details
GenreChildren's Literature, General Fiction
Length34 hrs 51 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 27, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Christmas with the Your Childhood Heroes (Annotated)
2The Iliad of Homer
3Odysseus, the Hero of Ithaca (Homer)
4The Arabian Nights Entertainments (Andrew Lang)
5Viking Tales (Jennie Hall)
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6What the Sagas Were
7Part I In Norway
8Part II West-Over-Seas
9Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (Andrew Lang)
10INTRODUCTION
11PART I. THE DRAWING OF THE SWORD.
12PART II. THE QUEST OF THE HOLY GRAAL.
13PART III. THE FIGHT FOR THE QUEEN.
14PART IV. LANCELOT AND GUENEVERE.
15Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (Geoffrey Chaucer) (pt. 1)
16Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (Geoffrey Chaucer) (pt. 2)
17Chaucer for Children: A Golden Key (Geoffrey Chaucer) (pt. 3)
18Tales from Shakespeare (Charles and Mary Lamb)
19Don Quixote (Miguel Cervantes)
20The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)
21Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
22Gulliver's Travels: Voyage to Lilliput (Jonathan Swift)
23Little Goody Two-Shoes & Mrs Margery Two-Shoes (Oliver Goldsmith)
24Charles Dickens' Children Stories (Charles Dickens)
25The Story of Hiawatha (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Winston Stokes)
26PREFACE
27THE SONG OF HIAWATHA (pt. 1)
28THE SONG OF HIAWATHA (pt. 2)
29Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
30The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith (E. Boyd Smith)
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