Famous Stories Every Child Should Know
| First published | 1907 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Doubleday, Page & Company |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Type | Anthology |
| Pages | x+300 |
10 stories, 1 poem
Four of the contents are not in the database September 2019:
• V. The Story of Ruth, as from the Book of Ruth
• VII. The Diverting History of John Gilpin, poem, as by William Cowper
• IX. The Nürnberg Stove, as by Louise de la Ramée ("{{a|Ouida}}")
• X. Rab and His Friends, as by John Brown, M. D.
--Contents list, 1st ed., 1907 (viewed at Internet Archive)
Fiction contents listed below (7 of 11 in the anthology) are those in the database as contents of other publications (September 2019).
Internet Archive provides full view of a copy including original cover and endpapers:
-- frontispiece and title page: "Drawn by ..." and "Decorated by Blanche Ostertag"
-- text (10 stories and one poem) spans p3-300, unillustrated
Ostertag decorations evidently comprise the frontispiece, which illustrates "The King of the Golden River"; the endpapers, apparently by the same hand; and possibly the front cover.
Library of Congress record {{LCCN|07-29005}} reports a 1912 ed./printing as 300 pages with frontispiece, no other illustrations.
| Page | Title | Author(s) | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 148|6 | The Great Stone Face | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Novelette |
| 182|8 | The Man Without a Country | Edward Everett Hale | Novelette |
| 288|11 | Peter Rugg, the Missing Man | William Austin | Novelette |
| 37|3 | The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle | Nathaniel Hawthorne | Short Story |
| 3|1 | A Child's Dream of a Star | Charles Dickens | Short Story |
| 57|4 | Undine | Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouqué | Novella |
| 8|2 | The King of the Golden River; or, The Black Brothers | John Ruskin | Novelette |
| v | Introduction (Famous Stories Every Child Should Know) | Hamilton Wright Mabie | Essay |
| Title | Year | Publisher | Format | Type | Catalog ID | Cover Artist | Pages | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Famous Stories Every Child Should Know | 1913 | Doubleday, Page & Company | Hardcover | Anthology | 300 | |||
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1937 | Doubleday, Doran | Hardcover | Anthology | 300 | ||
| Famous Stories Every Child Should Know | 2005 | Project Gutenberg | eBook | Anthology | 16247 |