Famous Stories Every Child Should Know, by H.W. Mabie, ed

About this eBook

Editor

Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916

Title

Famous Stories Every Child Should Know

Credits

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Diane Monico and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Children's stories

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 16247

Release Date

July 8, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1. — Old Man of the Mountain — — FAMOUS STORIES
2. 2.Every Child Should Know — Hamilton Wright Mabie — THE WHAT-EVERY-CHILD-SHOULD-KNOW-LIBRARY
3. 3.ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.CONTENTS — STORIES EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW
6. 6.A CHILD'S DREAM OF A STAR
7. 7.THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER; OR, THE BLACK BROTHERS — I.—HOW THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM OF THE BLACK BROTHERS WAS INTERFERED WITH BY SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE — II.—OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE THREE BROTHERS AFTER THE VISIT OF SOUTHWEST WIND, ESQUIRE; AND HOW LITTLE GLUCK HAD AN INTERVIEW WITH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER. — III.—HOW MR. HANS SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN — IV.—HOW MR. SCHWARTZ SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN — V.—HOW LITTLE GLUCK SET OFF ON AN EXPEDITION TO THE GOLDEN RIVER, AND HOW HE PROSPERED THEREIN; WITH OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST
8. 8.THE SNOW-IMAGE: A CHILDISH MIRACLE
9. 9.UNDINE — I.—HOW THE KNIGHT CAME TO THE FISHERMAN'S COTTAGE — II.—HOW UNDINE FIRST CAME TO THE FISHERMAN — III.—HOW THEY FOUND UNDINE AGAIN — IV.—OF WHAT HAD BEFALLEN THE KNIGHT IN THE FOREST — V.—OF THE LIFE WHICH THE KNIGHT LED ON THE ISLAND — VI.—OF A BRIDAL — VII.—HOW THE REST OF THE EVENING PASSED AWAY — VIII.—THE DAY AFTER THE MARRIAGE — IX.—HOW THE KNIGHT AND HIS YOUNG BRIDE DEPARTED — X.—OF THEIR WAY OF LIFE IN THE TOWN — XI.—BERTALDA'S BIRTHDAY — XII.—HOW THEY LEFT THE IMPERIAL CITY — XIII.—HOW THEY LIVED IN THE CASTLE OF RINGSTETTEN — XIV.—HOW BERTALDA DROVE HOME WITH THE KNIGHT — XV.—THE TRIP TO VIENNA — XVI.—OF WHAT BEFELL HULDBRAND AFTERWARDS — XVII.—THE KNIGHT'S DREAM — XVIII.—OF THE KNIGHT HULDBRAND'S SECOND BRIDAL — XIX.—HOW THE KNIGHT HULDBRAND WAS INTERRED
10. 10.THE STORY OF RUTH
11. 11.THE GREAT STONE FACE
12. 12.THE DIVERTING HISTORY OF JOHN GILPIN
13. 13.THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
14. 14.THE NÜRNBERG STOVE
15. 15.RAB AND HIS FRIENDS
16. 16.PETER RUGG, THE MISSING MAN [2]

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