| Author: | Andrew Lang | ISBN: | 1230000249179 |
| Publisher: | Consumer Oriented Ebooks Publisher | Publication: | June 30, 2014 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Andrew Lang |
| ISBN: | 1230000249179 |
| Publisher: | Consumer Oriented Ebooks Publisher |
| Publication: | June 30, 2014 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
There is not a dragon in the collection, nor even a giant; witches, here, play no part, and almost all the characters are grown up. On the other hand, if we have no fairies, we have princes in plenty, and a sweeter young prince than Tearlach (as far as this part of his story goes) the editor flatters himself that you shall nowhere find, not in Grimm, or Dasent, or Perrault. Still, it cannot be denied that true stories are not so good as fairy tales. They do not always end happily, and, what is worse, they do remind a young student of lessons and schoolrooms. A child may fear that he is being taught under a specious pretence of diversion, and that learning is being thrust on him under the disguise of entertainment. Prince Charlie and Cortés may be asked about in examinations, whereas no examiner has hitherto set questions on 'Blue Beard,' or 'Heart of Ice,' or 'The Red Etin of Ireland.' There is, to be honest, no way of getting over this difficulty. But the editor vows that he does not mean to teach anybody, and he has tried to mix the stories[x] up so much that no clear and consecutive view of history can possibly be obtained from them; moreover, when history does come in, it is not the kind of history favoured most by examiners. They seldom set questions on the conquest of Mexico, for example.
Contents
A Boy among the Red Indians 1
Casanova's Escape 16
Adventures on the Findhorn 29
The Story of Grace Darling 41
The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake' 48
Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates 52
The Spartan Three Hundred 64
Prince Charlie's Wanderings 68
Two Great Matches 105
The Story of Kaspar Hauser 113
An Artist's Adventure 122
The Tale of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift 132
How Leif the Lucky found Vineland the Good 153
The Escapes of Cervantes 161
The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe 168
Baron Trenck 176
The Adventure of John Rawlins 186
The Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden 193
The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo 207
The Escape of Cæsar Borgia from the Castle of Medina del Campo 213
The Kidnapping of the Princes 219
The Conquest of Montezuma's Empire 224
Adventures of Bartholomew Portugues, a Pirate 326
The Return of the French Freebooters 330
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author).
*An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience.
*This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.
There is not a dragon in the collection, nor even a giant; witches, here, play no part, and almost all the characters are grown up. On the other hand, if we have no fairies, we have princes in plenty, and a sweeter young prince than Tearlach (as far as this part of his story goes) the editor flatters himself that you shall nowhere find, not in Grimm, or Dasent, or Perrault. Still, it cannot be denied that true stories are not so good as fairy tales. They do not always end happily, and, what is worse, they do remind a young student of lessons and schoolrooms. A child may fear that he is being taught under a specious pretence of diversion, and that learning is being thrust on him under the disguise of entertainment. Prince Charlie and Cortés may be asked about in examinations, whereas no examiner has hitherto set questions on 'Blue Beard,' or 'Heart of Ice,' or 'The Red Etin of Ireland.' There is, to be honest, no way of getting over this difficulty. But the editor vows that he does not mean to teach anybody, and he has tried to mix the stories[x] up so much that no clear and consecutive view of history can possibly be obtained from them; moreover, when history does come in, it is not the kind of history favoured most by examiners. They seldom set questions on the conquest of Mexico, for example.
Contents
A Boy among the Red Indians 1
Casanova's Escape 16
Adventures on the Findhorn 29
The Story of Grace Darling 41
The 'Shannon' and the 'Chesapeake' 48
Captain Snelgrave and the Pirates 52
The Spartan Three Hundred 64
Prince Charlie's Wanderings 68
Two Great Matches 105
The Story of Kaspar Hauser 113
An Artist's Adventure 122
The Tale of Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift 132
How Leif the Lucky found Vineland the Good 153
The Escapes of Cervantes 161
The Worthy Enterprise of John Foxe 168
Baron Trenck 176
The Adventure of John Rawlins 186
The Chevalier Johnstone's Escape from Culloden 193
The Adventures of Lord Pitsligo 207
The Escape of Cæsar Borgia from the Castle of Medina del Campo 213
The Kidnapping of the Princes 219
The Conquest of Montezuma's Empire 224
Adventures of Bartholomew Portugues, a Pirate 326
The Return of the French Freebooters 330
