The Classic Myths in English Literature/Google Books

Overview
The Classic Myths in English Literature
by Charles Mills Gayley, Thomas Bulfinch.
Publisher Ginn, 1893
Length 539 pages

The Alhambra /Google Books

The Alhambra

By Washington Irving, Edward Kilburn Robinson, Norman Irving Black

Published by Ginn and company, 1915

370 pages

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Mother Carey's Chickens/Google Books

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Mother Carey's Chickens
By Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911
355 pages

Mother Carey's Chickens
Amazon review: . Another heartwarming tale from the author of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. In this story the reader follows a strong-willed widow, Nancy Carey, as she struggles for the future of her beautiful daughters Nancy and Kitty and her beloved son Peter. Good humor and folksy grit help Mother Carey keep poverty and the wrong fellows for her daughters at bay.

An old fashioned story with old fashioned values - uplifting and edifying fiction.

The Boy of Mount Rhigi/Google Books

The Boy of Mount Rhigi
By Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Published by Crosby and Nichols, 1862
252 pages

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"Senior High to Adult: Besides fishing in the beautiful wooded hills of Mount Rhigi, Massachusetts, Harry Davis and Clapham Dunn have little in common as far as their upbringing. Harry can hardly relate to the brutal existence that Clapham endures every day—which has molded his character and produced tormenting frustration and fear in his heart. Emotionally and spiritually bankrupt, Clapham, like a magnet, is drawn to the love and acceptance of the Davises. But one sad day he is seized and threatened to do that which is unthinkable. Long, miserable, dark days follow. But though sorrow endures for the night, the healing balm of truth brings joy in the morning.

About the author...

Both the public and her contemporaries regarded Catharine Maria Sedgwick highly. Catharine was actually one of the first American female authors to gain fame. She gained her recognition through writing stories with Christian morals such as were popular during her day."

The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature: American and British/Google Books

All this and more:

THE CASTLE V CHIVALRY	344
Chivalry , joust , minstrels
THE VILLAGE FARM	347
middle ages , farmed in common , scat
THE GUILDS	349
craft guilds , merchant guild , main purpose
ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS	350
Inns of Court , Middle Temple , Twelfth Night
THE ENGLISH FAMILY	354
single houses , male heir , American readers
THE ENGLISH STAGE	355
proscenium , actors , Elizabethan plays
ENGLISH SPORTS	363
bear-baiting , falconry , judicial combat
NOTABLE DAYS IN THE CALENDAR	370
Boy Bishop , Whitsunday , Childermas
CHURCHES AND FORMS OF WORSHIP	378
Roman Catholic church , established church , nonconformist
BYGONE BELIEFS AND SUPERSTITIONS	383
astrology , Ptolemaic astronomy , Alchemy

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The Facts and Backgrounds of Literature: English and American
By George Fullmer Reynolds, Garland Greever
Published by The Century Co., 1920
425 pages

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The Age of Fable and The Age Chivalry /Google Books

Description at Dover Publications, "Bulfinch's Mythology is a classic retelling of the great myths and legends, from ancient Greece and Rome to the time of Charlemagne. The second volume, reprinted here, focuses on Arthurian legends, and covers such notables as Sir Gawin, Launcelot, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Tristan and Isolde, Robin Hood, and much more." ages 14 and Up. Note: Bulfinch comes at these fables from a Christian viewpoint.

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The Age of Chivalry

By Thomas Bulfinch

Published by Crosby, Nichols, 1859

414 pages

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The Age of Fable
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The Age of Fable

By Thomas Bulfinch

Published by George Routledge & sons, limited, 1905

394 pages

Wreck of the Golden Fleece: The Story of a North Sea Fisher-boy/Google Books

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Wreck of the Golden Fleece: The Story of a North Sea Fisher-boy

By Robert Leighton, Frank Brangwyn

Published by Blackie & Son, 1894

352 pages

Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic/Google Books

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Old Celtic Romances: Translated from the Gaelic by P. W. Joyce
By Patrick Weston Joyce
Translated by Patrick Weston Joyce
Published by D. Nutt, 1894
446 pages

A Book of Bravery/Google Books

The Book of Bravery: Being True Stories in an Ascending Scale of Courage
By Henry Wysham Lanier
Published by C. Scribner's Sons, 1920
429 pages

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A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legends, History, and Science/Google Books

A Book of Giants: Tales of Very Tall Men of Myth, Legends, History, and Science
By Henry Wysham Lanier
Published by E.P. Dutton & company, 1922
316 pages

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Cathcart's Literary Reader (Survey of English Literature) /Google books

Begins with Elizabethan literature. Click here.

Shakspere(Shakespeare): A Critical Study of His Mind and Art/Google Books

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Shakspere: A Critical Study of His Mind and Art

By Edward Dowden, Will David Howe

Published by Harper, 1918

Original from Harvard University

386 pages

Teaching Literature in the Grammar Grades and High School/Google Books

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Children's Literature: A Textbook of Sources for Teachers/Google Books

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Journeys Through Book Land with Teacher's Guide/Project Gutenberg

"Journeys Through Bookland is what the title signifies, a series of excursions into the field of the world’s greatest literature. Accordingly, the base of the work is laid in those great classics that, since first they found expression in words, have been the education and inspiration of man. But these excursions are taken hand-in-hand with a leader, whose province it is to explain, to interpret, to guide and to direct. Suiting his labors to the age and acquirement of the readers he helps them all, from the child halting in his early attempts to interpret the printed page to the high school or college student who wishes to master the innermost secrets of literature. In no small sense is this leadership a labor of love, for it follows an experience of twenty years of personal instruction in the public schools and among the teachers of the country." ~ The Guide

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8

Volume one was not available.

The handy supplementary book list

Literature Guide by Subject and Grade Level

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The New England Poets, A Study of Emerson, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell, and Holmes/Google Books

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Introduction to Classical Latin Literature by William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.

Introduction to Classical Greek Literature By William Cranston Lawton/Google Books

High school level. Click here.

Guide to Selecting Children's Literature/Google Books

The Children's Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott.