THROUGH GOLDEN DOORS
TO
ENGLISH LITERATURE
THROUGH GOLDEN DOORS
TO
ENGLISH LITERATURE
A NEW SERIES
By Jeannette Marks
Lecturer at Mt. Holyoke College
The master-stories of English literature told for young readers. The author, who has been professor of English Literature at Mt. Holyoke and the author of several successful books for both younger and older readers, has been occupied for a long time in making a selection of the best stories from the greatest English writers beginning with "Beowulf" and the dawn of English letters.
The present volume offers masterpieces chosen from the earliest English literature from the seventh to the fourteenth century, stories which are not readily accessible.
The second volume will offer hero tales of the Middle English period, from Chaucer and others.
In later volumes selections will be made from the masters of modern English literature.
EARLY ENGLISH HERO TALES
From 600 to 1340
Other books in preparation
Each illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, 50 cents net
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
MEDIEVAL LONDON
From Manuscript 16 F. ii in the British Museum
EARLY
ENGLISH
HERO TALES
TOLD BY
JEANNETTE MARKS
WELLESLEY M.A.
LECTURER AT MT. HOLYOKE COLLEGE
ILLUSTRATED
HARPER & BROTHERS
NEW YORK & LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED APRIL, 1915
TO
H. M. C.