The ABCs of History: A 14-Book Series for Young Explorers
Biographies, Legends, Heroes, and National Tales for Young ReadersBy Plutarch, Andrew Lang, Jennie Hall, Charlotte M. Yonge, Mrs. Beesly, 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 43m
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The ABCs of History: A 14-Book Series for Young Explorers gathers accessible historical writing into a capacious introduction to the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds. Its selections range from biography, legend, and narrative history to moral anecdote and adventure-inflected reconstruction, demonstrating how history has long been made vivid for younger readers. Classical lives, royal courts, national origins, and episodes of exploration stand beside one another, inviting attention both to historical events and to the storytelling forms through which they are remembered. The contributors represent a broad nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century culture of popular education. They include classicists, novelists, schoolroom writers, biographers, and authors of historical tales, with Plutarch's enduring model of exemplary lives forming an important classical presence. Collectively, these voices participate in traditions of juvenile literature, civic instruction, and historical romance, while their differing methods—documentary explanation, dramatic narration, and character-centered portraiture—reveal changing assumptions about how young people might encounter the past. This volume is especially recommended for readers seeking a varied archive of historical writing for the young. It offers educational breadth as well as literary interest, enabling comparison among periods, genres, and narrative priorities within a single collection. Students, educators, and general readers will find in its many perspectives a productive dialogue between historical knowledge, imagination, and the enduring desire to make the past intelligible.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length103 hrs 43 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
48The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
49The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch
50THESEUS
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