
The Crystal Palace and Other Legends
By Marie H. FraryLength1h 55m
About this audiobook
Excerpt from introduction: "Legends have a fascination for all classes of people, but they possess a peculiar charm for children. They constitute, in fact, a form of literature particularly fitting to the mental world of the child. In them fact and fancy are happily blended. Around the bare facts of recorded or unrecorded history, are woven the poetic ideals of a romantic people. Nothing could be more worth a child's reading than a story of the past that conveys not only an idea of the everyday life of real people, but represents them also as striving after ideals in various forms of beauty. No influence is greater than the moral force of beauty. In the present volume the purpose of the writers has been to present only such legends as reveal simplicity, strength, and beauty. These qualities make their inevitable appeal to the child fancy. The subject matter of the book has been graded for children of eight or ten years. It is, therefore, well suited for use as a supplementary reader in the fourth or fifth grade."
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length1 hr 55 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 24, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
11THE TWO BAKER BOYS
2THE CRYSTAL PALACE
12THE EMPEROR’S WOOING
3THE ANGEL PAGE
13THE MAGIC RING
4THE GNOME’S ROAD
14CHARLEMAGNE’S GENEROSITY
5THE LORELEI
15THE SILVER BRIDGE
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6THE SUNKEN CITY
16THE PET RAVEN
7THE BIRD OF PARADISE
17THE NIGHT OF THE STOLEN TREASURE
8THE BELL OF ATRI
18THE WATER SPRITES
9THE POT OF HOT PORRIDGE
19THE GIANT MAIDEN
10THE SILVER BELL
20THE SWAN KNIGHT