The Junior Classics (Vol. 1-9)

A World Treasury of Fairy Tales, Myths, Legends, Fables, and Classic Adventures for Young ReadersBy Hans Christian Andersen, Louisa M. Alcott, Charles Perrault, Lewis Carroll, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. R. Schoolcraft, Andrew Lang, Homer, William Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Washington Irving, Virgil, Livy, Geoffrey Chaucer, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, William Shakespeare, John Bunyan, E. Frere, Flora Annie Steel, Ramaswami Raju, P. C. Asbjörnsen, George Webbe Dasent, Paul Sébillot, Hermann R. Kletke, John T. Naaké, W. S. Karajich, Adele M. Fielde, Mary Pamela Milne-Horne, Joseph Jacobs, Mme. d'Aulnoy, E. M. Wilmot-Buxton, Constance Maud, Lillian M. Gask, Henry W. Longfellow, Elsie Finnimore Buckley, George W. Cox, Thomas Bulfinch, Annie Ker, Cornelius Mathews, Rebecca Harding Davis, Sophie May, Jean Ingelow, Frances Browne, Jacob Abbott, E. S. Brooks, Emerson Hough, Elizabeth Harrison, Frederick Orin Bartlett, Edward Everett Hale, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Albert Lee

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The Junior Classics (Vols. 1–9) assembles a capacious library of tales, myths, poems, fables, adventures, histories, and dramatic excerpts designed to introduce younger readers to enduring traditions of world literature. Its range moves from classical epic and biblical-inflected allegory to fairy tale, folklore, romance, satire, and nineteenth-century children's writing. Familiar narratives of transformation, quest, wit, and moral testing stand beside legends gathered from Asian, European, and Indigenous traditions, making the collection both a canon of literary inheritance and a record of storytelling's international circulation. Its contributors and transmitters include classical writers, medieval poets, early modern dramatists, Victorian fabulists, American authors, and folklorists whose translations and retellings mediated oral traditions for English-language audiences. Homer, Virgil, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Defoe, Swift, Andersen, the Grimms, Perrault, and Carroll appear within a broader company of collectors and educators. Their convergence reflects nineteenth- and early twentieth-century investments in children's reading, comparative folklore, moral instruction, and the formation of a shared literary culture, while preserving strikingly different national and generic voices. This volume set rewards readers seeking both pleasure and literary orientation. It offers an exceptional opportunity to compare myth with fairy tale, adventure with allegory, and oral narrative with crafted prose. Students, families, and general readers will find a rich educational resource whose internal dialogues illuminate how stories travel, change, and endure.

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Publish dateApr 19, 2024

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1The Greatest Children's Books - E. Nesbit Collection: Fantastical Adventures, Tales of Magical Creatures & Journeys into Enchanting Worlds (Illustrated) (Annotated)

2The Junior Classics (Vol. 1-9)

3Volume 1

4Introduction

5Preface

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6Manabozho, The Mischief-Maker

7Why the Woodpecker Has Red Head Feathers

8Why the Diver Duck Has So Few Tail Feathers

9Manaibozho is Changed Into Awolf

10Manabozho is Robbed by the Wolves

11Manabozho and the Woodpeckers

12The Boy and the Wolves