An edition of About old story-tellers (1877)

About old story-tellers

of how and when they lived, and what stories they told

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An edition of About old story-tellers (1877)

About old story-tellers

of how and when they lived, and what stories they told

Selections from such traditional favorites as Gulliver's Travels, The Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, and Ivanhoe accompanied by background information on the authors, the times in which they lived, and the origins of the stories.

Publish Date
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Pages
237

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Table of Contents

Introduction.
First printers and their homes.
The Arabian nights.
Goldsmith's work.
Gulliver Swift.
An Irish story-teller.
Two French friends.
Fairy realm.
A Scotch magician.
Robinson Crusoe.
How a tinker wrote a novel.

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Published in
New York

The Physical Object

Pagination
xv, 17-237 p.
Number of pages
237

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22888451M
Internet Archive
oldstorytellers00mitc
OCLC/WorldCat
19526882

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