Children S Stories In American Literature 1660 1860

"Children's Stories in American Literature: 1660-1860," is a book on famous pieces of American literature, from novels to poems. It offers a description of the lives and works of such great authors as Edgar Allan Poe, William Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. First published in 1861, this book was a part of the everyday schooling of young pre-teens in America.

Excerpt from Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 One Sunday morning, about the year 1661, a group of Indians was gathered around a noble-looking man, listening to a story he was reading. It was summer and the day was beautiful, and the little Indian children who sat listening were so interested that not even the thought of their favorite haunts by brookside or meadow could tempt them from the spot. The story was about the life of Christ and his mission to the world, and the children had heard it many times, but to-day it seemed new to them because it was read in their own language, which had never been printed before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"[...]revolutionary times, the ballad became a power second to none. Here first appears that great hero Yankee Doodle, who comes, like will-o'-the-wisp, from no one knows where, although many learned pages have been written to show his nationality. He seems to have been as great a traveller as Marco Polo or Baron Munchausen, and, like them, he must have seen many strange sights and countries. Perhaps he may have a trace of the gypsy in him and could recall, if he liked, strange wanderings through the Far East. He may have been a camp-follower through the German and Flemish wars. It is more than probable that he hobnobbed with the Italian banditti, and[...]".

"Children's Stories in English Literature: From Shakespeare to Tennyson" is a children's books on literature written by American children's author Henrietta Christian Wright. Wright introduces literary works by Shakespeare, Bacon, Milton, John Bunyan and many others with biographical and historic notes before re-telling their writings in language for children. Table of Contents: Shakespeare—Sixteenth Century Bacon—Sixteenth Century Milton—Seventeenth Century John Bunyan—Seventeenth Century The Essay and the Poetry of the Eighteenth Century The Birth of the Novel—Eighteenth Century Jonathan Swift—Eighteenth Century History in the Eighteenth Century Johnson—Eighteenth Century The Romantic Novel—Nineteenth Century Nineteenth Century Prose Nineteenth Century Poetry