CONTENTSOLD-FASHIONED STORIESCLASSIC TALES
- Don
Quixote1-35
- By Miguel Cervantes. Adapted by
John Lang
- how don quixote was
knighted[1]
- how don quixote rescued andres; and how he returned
home
[6]
- how don quixote and sancho panza started on their
search for adventures; and how don quixote fought with the
windmills
[10]
- how don quixote won a helmet; how he fought with two
armies; and how sancho's ass was stolen
[14]
- how don quixote saw dulcinea
[18]
- how don quixote fought with a lion; and how he defeated
the moors
[21]
- the battle with the bulls; the fight with the knight of
the white moon; and how don quixote died
[29]
- Gulliver's Travels: Voyage to
Lilliput36-58
- By Jonathan Swift. Adapted by
John Lang
- gulliver's birth and early
voyages[36]
- gulliver is wrecked on the coast of
lilliput[37]
- gulliver is taken as a prisoner to the capital of
lilliput[42]
- gulliver is freed, and captures the blefuscan
fleet[47]
- gulliver's escape from lilliput and return to
england[54]
- The Arabian
Nights59-94
- Adapted by Amy Steedman
- aladdin and the wonderful
lamp[59]
- the enchanted
horse[73]
- sindbad the
sailor[80]
- The Iliad of
Homer95-118
- Adapted by Jeanie Lang
- the story of what led to the siege of
troy[95]
- the
council[97]
- the fight between paris and
menelaus[102]
- hector and
andromache[107]
- how patroclus fought and
died[110]
- the rousing of
achilles[114]
- The Odyssey of
Homer119-135
- Adapted by Jeanie Lang
- what happened in ithaca while odysseus was
away[119]
- how odysseus came
home[126]
- Robinson
Crusoe136-170
- By Daniel Defoe. Adapted by
John Lang
- how robinson first went to sea; and how he was
shipwrecked[136]
- robinson works hard at making himself a
home[140]
- the earthquake and hurricane; and how robinson built a
boat[144]
- robinson builds a second boat, in which he is swept out
to sea
[148]
- robinson sees a footprint on the sand, finds a cave,
and rescues friday
[152]
- robinson trains friday and they build a large boat;
they rescue two prisoners from the cannibals
[160]
- arrival of an english ship: robinson sails for home
[163]
- Canterbury
Tales171-202
- By Geoffrey Chaucer. Adapted by
Janet Harvey Kelman
- dorigen[171]
- emelia[182]
- griselda[193]
- The Pilgrim's
Progress[203]
- By John Bunyan. Adapted by Mary
Macgregor
- Tales from
Shakespeare233-254
- By Charles and Mary Lamb
- the tempest
[233]
- a midsummer night's dream
[243]