Discovering the Past: 14 History Books Adapted for Children
Classic Tales of Ancient Heroes, Royal Drama, Exploration, and Courage for Young ReadersBy Andrew Lang, Jennie Hall, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Beesly, Plutarch, John S. White, Agnes Strickland, Henry Gilbert, Elbridge S. Brooks, Henrietta Christian Wright, Mary Stoyell Stimpson, James Otis, James H. Shaw, Lydia Hoyt Farmer
Length103h 44m
About this audiobook
Discovering the Past: 14 History Books Adapted for Children gathers biographical narrative, classical history, historical romance, and instructive popular scholarship into a capacious introduction to the past. Moving from antiquity and heroic legend to monarchy, exploration, and civic life, the volume demonstrates how history has been made accessible to young readers through vivid storytelling, moral inquiry, and carefully shaped episodes. Classical lives and tales of rulers stand beside accounts of national development and adventurous reconstructions, revealing both the appeal and the pedagogical ambitions of children's historical literature. Its contributors represent a broad nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century tradition of educational writing. Alongside the ancient authority of Plutarch are historians, novelists, translators, and children's authors including Andrew Lang, Charlotte M. Yonge, Agnes Strickland, Henry Gilbert, James Otis, and Lydia Hoyt Farmer. Their varied methods—from anecdotal portraiture and legend to documentary explanation—reflect Victorian and Progressive-era commitments to moral formation, historical imagination, and popular learning. Together, these voices show how the past was interpreted for youthful audiences across changing cultural and literary contexts. This anthology is especially rewarding for readers interested in children's literature, historiography, and the cultural work of historical narrative. It offers a rare opportunity to compare styles, assumptions, and historical emphases within one volume, fostering thoughtful dialogue between inherited traditions and modern readers' questions about how history is told.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length103 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Tales of Troy and Greece
2ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES
3V
4X
5THE WANDERINGS OF ULYSSES
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6VI
7X
8THESEUS
9VI
10III
11Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae
12Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae (Complete)
13FOREWORD: TO BOYS AND GIRLS
14POMPEII
15POMPEII TO-DAY
16OLYMPIA
17MYCENÆ
18History of Rome Retold for Children
19Young Folks' History of Rome
20PREFACE.
21CHAPTER III.
22CHAPTER IX.
23CHAPTER XVI.
24CHAPTER XXI.
25CHAPTER XXVII.
26CHAPTER XXXII.
27CHAPTER XXXVII.
28CHAPTER XLIII.
29Stories from the History of Rome for Children
30PREFACE
31I. — THE BUILDING OF ROME
32II. — THE HORATII AND THE CURIATII
33III. — BRUTUS AND HIS SONS
34IV. — How Lars Porsenna Besieged Rome
35V. — CAIUS MARCIUS AND HIS MOTHER
36VI. — THE DEEDS OF THE FABII
37VII. — CINCINNATUS
38VIII. — THE BATTLE OF CORBIO
39X. — HOW THE ROMANS WON TWO CITIES
40X. — THE TAKING OF ROME
41XI. — THE GULF IN THE FORUM
42XII. — THE STORY OF TITUS MANLIUS
43XIII. — THE DEATH OF DECIUS
44XIV. — THE CAUDINE FORKS
45XV. — THE TWO FABII
46XVI. — HOW PYRRHUS FOUGHT AGAINST ROME
47THE END
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49KING ARTHUR'S KNIGHTS
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