A Book of Golden Deeds

About this eBook

Author

Yonge, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary), 1823-1901

Credits

Produced by Hanh Vu, Sandra Laythorpe, and David Widger

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Self-sacrifice -- Juvenile literature

Category

Text

eBook-No.

6489

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6489

Release Date

September 1, 2004

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS
2. 2.By Charlotte M. Yonge
3. 3.PREFACE — See Clebration of Women Writers:
4. 4.WHAT IS A GOLDEN DEED?
5. 5.THE STORIES OF ALCESTIS AND ANTIGONE
6. 6.THE CUP OF WATER
7. 7.HOW ONE MAN HAS SAVED A HOST — B.C. 507
8. 8.THE PASS OF THERMOPYLAE — B.C. 430
9. 9.THE ROCK OF THE CAPITOL — B.C. 389
10. 10.THE TWO FRIENDS OF SYRACUSE — B.C. 380 (CIRCA)
11. 11.THE DEVOTION OF THE DECII — B.C. 339
12. 12.REGULUS — B.C. 249
13. 13.THE BRAVE BRETHREN OF JUDAH — B.C. 180
14. 14.THE CHIEF OF THE ARVERNI — B.C. 52
15. 15.WITHSTANDING THE MONARCH IN HIS WRATH — A.D. 389
16. 16.THE LAST FIGHT IN THE COLISEUM — A.D. 404
17. 17.THE SHEPHERD GIRL OF NANTERRE — A.D. 438
18. 18.LEO THE SLAVE — A.D. 533
19. 19.THE BATTLE OF THE BLACKWATER — 991
20. 20.GUZMAN EL BUENO — 1293
21. 21.FAITHFUL TILL DEATH — 1308
22. 22.WHAT IS BETTER THAN SLAYING A DRAGON — 1332
23. 23.THE KEYS OF CALAIS — 1347
24. 24.THE BATTLE OF SEMPACH — 1397
25. 25.THE CONSTANT PRINCE — 1433
26. 26.THE CARNIVAL OF PERTH — 1435
27. 27.THE CROWN OF ST. STEPHEN — 1440
28. 28.GEORGE THE TRILLER — 1455 I.
29. 29.SIR THOMAS MORE'S DAUGHTER — 1535
30. 30.UNDER IVAN THE TERRIBLE — 1564.
31. 31.FORT ST. ELMO — 1565
32. 32.THE VOLUNTARY CONVICT — 1622
33. 33.THE HOUSEWIVES OF LOWENBURG — 1631
34. 34.FATHERS AND SONS — 219—1642—1798
35. 35.THE SOLDIERS IN THE SNOW — 1672
36. 36.GUNPOWDER PERILS — 1700
37. 37.HEROES OF THE PLAGUE — 1576—1665—1721
38. 38.THE SECOND OF SEPTEMBER — 1792
39. 39.THE VENDEANS — 1793

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