Fifty Famous Stories Retold

      by James Baldwin

      ©2008 Wilder Publications

      This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race have changed before allowing them to read this classic work.

      All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission except for brief quotations for review purposes only.

      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-4413-8

      Table of Contents

       King Alfred and the Cakes

       King Alfred And The Beggar

       King Canute on the Seashore

       The Sons of William the Conqueror

       The White Ship

       King John And The Abbot

       The Three Questions

       The Three Answers

       A Story of Robin Hood

       Bruce And The Spider

       The Black Douglas

       Three Men of Gotham

       Other Wise Men of Gotham

       The Miller of the Dee

       Sir Philip Sidney

       The Ungrateful Soldier

       Sir Humphrey Gilbert

       Sir Walter Raleigh

       Pocahontas

       George Washington And His Hatchet

       Grace Darling

       The Story of William Tell

       Arnold Winkelried

       The Bell of Atri

       How Napoleon Crossed the Alps

       The Story of Cincinnatus

       The Story of Regulus

       Cornelia’s Jewels

       Androclus and the Lion

       Horatius At the Bridge

       Julius Caesar

       The Sword of Damocles

       Damon and Pythias

       A Laconic Answer

       The Ungrateful Guest

       Alexander and Bucephalus

       Diogenes the Wise Man

       The Brave Three Hundred

       Socrates and His House

       The King And His Hawk

       Doctor Goldsmith

       The Kingdoms

       The Barmecide Feast

       The Endless Tale

       The Blind Men and the Elephant

       Maximilian and the Goose Boy

       The Inchcape Rock

       Whittington and His Cat

       The City

       The Kitchen

       The Venture

       The Cat

       The Fortune

       Casabianca

       Antonio Canova

       Picciola

       Mignon

King Alfred and the Cakes

      Many years ago there lived in England a wise and good king whose name was Alfred. No other man ever did so much for his country as he; and people now, all over the world, speak of him as Alfred the Great.

      In those days a king did not have a very easy life. There was war almost all the time, and no one else could lead his army into battle so well as he.