James Baldwin: 133 books

Book cover of Fifty Famous People
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Book cover of Old Greek Stories
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

JUPITER AND HIS MIGHTY COMPANY. A long time ago, when the world was much younger than it is now, people told and believed a great many wonderful stories about wonderful things which neither you nor I have ever seen. They often talked about a certain Mighty Being called Jupiter, or Zeus, who was king...
Book cover of A Story of the Golden Age
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015

To the simple-hearted folk who dwelt in that island three thousand years ago, there was never a sweeter spot than sea-girt Ithaca. Rocky and rugged though it may have seemed, yet it was indeed a smiling land embosomed in the laughing sea. There the air was always mild and pure, and balmy with the breath...
Book cover of Fifty Famous Stories Retold
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

THERE are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. These stories are of several different classes. To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted...
Book cover of Old Greek Stories: With 35 Illustrations, and 15 Free Online Audio Files
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2018

The Old Greek Stories is a classic collection of fifteen stories of the mythological heroes, and their encounters with the Olympian Gods. Written originally for children in 1895 it is also popular with adults the world over. While each story is individual, they can also be read continuously, with...
Book cover of The Story of Roland
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016

One summer afternoon rather more than eleven hundred years ago, the boy Roland was sitting in the cleft of a broken rock that forms the crest of one of the hills in the neighborhood of Sutri. Above him was the deep blue sky of Italy, unflecked by any cloud: on either side of him stretched a dull,...
Book cover of The Wonder-Book of Horses
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

SINCE the publication of my larger book, "The Horse Fair," many letters have been received from teachers and their scholars telling of the pleasure derived from the reading of it, and incidentally suggesting that much of its contents is directly in line with the courses of literary instruction...
Book cover of Stories of Don Quixote

Stories of Don Quixote

[Written Anew for Children]

by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

THE romance entitled "The Achievements of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha," was originally written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It was published in two parts, the first in 1605 and the second in 1615—now just about three hundred years ago. Among the great...
Book cover of The Sampo
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

YOU must rise early in the morning," said Dame Louhi, the Wise Woman of the North. She stood at the door of her chamber and looked back into the low-raftered hall where her daughter was spinning. Her face was wrinkled and grim, her thin lips were puckered over her toothless mouth, her gray-green...
Book cover of The Story of Siegfried

The Story of Siegfried

Heroes & Giants

by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

WHEN the world was in its childhood, men looked upon the works of Nature with a strange kind of awe. They fancied that every thing upon the earth, in the air, or in the water, had a life like their own, and that every sight which they saw, and every sound which they heard, was caused by some intelligent...
Book cover of A Story of the Golden Age of Greek Heroes
by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017

YOU have heard of Homer, and of the two wonderful poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which bear his name. No one knows whether these poems were composed by Homer, or whether they are the work of many different poets. And, in fact, it matters very little about their authorship. Everybody agrees that...
Book cover of Old Greek Stories

Old Greek Stories

[Illustrated Edition]

by James Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

PERHAPS no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious,...
Book cover of Von dieser Welt
by James Baldwin
Language: German
Release Date: February 28, 2018

Ein Buch, das die Welt veränderte John Grime ist ein schwarzer empfindsamer Junge aus Harlem, sexuell unschlüssig, seine einzige Waffe zur Selbstverteidigung ist sein Verstand. Aber was es nützt es, von den weißen Lehrern gefördert zu werden, wenn der eigene Vater einem tagtäglich predigt, man...
Book cover of Genetic Theory of Reality
by James Mark Baldwin, Jaan Valsiner
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

James Mark Baldwin left a legacy that has yet to be fully examined, one with profound implications for science and the humanities. In some sense it paralleled that of his friend Charles Sanders Peirce, whose semiotics became understood only a century later. Baldwin was trying to make sense of complex...
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