The Greatest Classics for Children in One Volume
A Timeless Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Fables, and Fantasies for Young ReadersBy Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, Johanna Spyri, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oscar Wilde, George MacDonald, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Andrew Lang, John Meade Falkner, Jonathan Swift, Maurice Maeterlinck, Daniel Defoe, Johnny Gruelle, Aesop, Hugh Lofting, Emerson Hough, George Haven Putnam, Anna Sewell, Rudyard Kipling, Beatrix Potter, John Ruskin, Kenneth Grahame, Eva March Tappan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Susan Coolidge, Carlo Collodi, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Georgette Leblanc, Jennie Hall, Carl Sandburg, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Evelyn Sharp, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Marion St. John Webb, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, Eleanor H. Porter, E. Nesbit, E. T. A. Hoffmann, E. Boyd Smith, Hans Christian Andersen, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Vishnu Sharma, Margery Williams, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Dorothy Canfield, Howard R. Garis, Brothers Grimm, Thornton Burgess, R. L. Stevenson, Miguel Cervantes
Length780h 30m
About this audiobook
The Greatest Classics for Children in One Volume surveys the extraordinary breadth of children's literature, joining fairy tale, animal fable, adventure romance, fantasy, moral tale, historical narrative, nonsense, and domestic fiction. From enchanted realms and talking animals to voyages, schoolrooms, and acts of ethical courage, it preserves traditions that have shaped youthful reading across generations. Standout imaginative modes include the wonder tale, the quest narrative, and the playful logic of literary nonsense, while realist and didactic works complicate the collection's vision of childhood. Its contributors represent a transnational canon extending from Aesopic and Sanskrit fable through European folklore and the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century flowering of children's publishing. British, American, French, Italian, Danish, German, and Russian-inflected traditions meet here, bringing together writers associated with Romantic fantasy, Victorian moral instruction, social reform, imperial adventure, and the emergence of modern child-centered storytelling. Their varied cultural inheritances reveal children's literature as both an artistic field and a record of changing assumptions about family, education, nature, class, and imagination. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking a capacious introduction to the classics in conversation with one another. It invites students, families, and scholars alike to compare narrative forms, ethical ideals, and cultural worlds within a single accessible anthology. Rich in pedagogical possibilities and enduring pleasures, it offers an illuminating encounter with the diverse texts that continue to define the literary landscape of childhood.
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GenreChildren's Literature
Length780 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 5, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh (Annotated)
2Dragon Tales
3My Father's Dragon (Ruth Stiles Gannett)
4The Reluctant Dragon (Kenneth Grahame)
5The Book of Dragons (E. Nesbit):
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6The Book of Beasts
7Uncle James, or the Purple Stranger
8The Deliverers of Their Country
9The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told
10The Island of the Nine Whirlpools
11The Dragon Tamers
12The Fiery Dragon, or the Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold
13Kind Little Edmund, or the Caves and the Cockatrice
14Animal Tales & Fables
15The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter)
16The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (Beatrix Potter)
17The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies (Beatrix Potter)
18The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter)
19The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (Thornton Burgess)
20Mother West Wind Series (Thornton Burgess)
21The Burgess Bird Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
22Chapter I. Jenny Wren Arrives.
23Chapter II. The Old Orchard Bully.
24Chapter VI. An Old Friend In a New Home.
25Chapter IX. Longbill and Teeter.
26Chapter X. Redwing and Yellow Wing.
27Chapter XI. Drummers and Carpenters.
28Chapter XII. Some Unlikely Relatives.
29Chapter XV. A Swallow and One Who Isn't.
30Chapter XVII. More Robbers.
31Chapter XX. A Fisherman Robbed.
32Chapter XXI. A Fishing Party.
33Chapter XXII. Some Feathered Diggers.
34Chapter XXIII. Some Big Mouths.
35Chapter XXIV. The Warblers Arrive.
36Chapter XXV. Three Cousins Quite Unlike.
37Chapter XXVI. Peter Gets a Lame Neck.
38Chapter XXIX. The Constant Singers.
39Chapter XXX. Jenny Wren's Cousins.
40Chapter XXXI. Voices of the Dusk.
41Chapter XXXV. A Butcher and a Hummer.
42Chapter XXXVI. A Stranger and a Dandy.
43Chapter XXXVII. Farewells and Welcomes.
44Chapter XL. Some Merry Seed-Eaters.
45Chapter XLIV. More Folks in Red.
46The Burgess Animal Book for Children (Thornton Burgess)
47Chapter I Jenny Wren Gives Peter Rabbit an Idea
48Chapter II Peter and Jumper go to School
49Chapter III More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins
50Chapter IV Chatterer and Happy Jack Join
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