Old Fashioned Education
The Age of Fable
Thomas BulfinchBulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from antiquity including the Greeks, Romans, and others. Written for a general audience, t...
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Sir Walter ScottA Romance A historical fiction novel based in England during the Middle Ages. One of Sir Walter Scott’s most popular works, it has been credited wi...
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Thomas BulfinchBulfinch’s Mythology The recounting of myths and stories from early British history during the reign of King Arthur. Written for a general audience...
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Alfred ChurchTold From Homer The retelling of the Iliad by Rev. Alfred J. Church. The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing sty...
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Alfred ChurchTold From Homer The retelling of the Odyssey by Rev. Alfred J. Church. The book is intended as an introduction to Homer’s epic poem. The writing s...
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Andrew LangArabian Nights Andrew Lang’s retelling of the famous stories of One Thousand and One Nights (Arabic) also known as Arabian Nights (English). The wo...
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Robert Louis StevensonThe Adventures of David Balfour A historical fiction novel set in the 18th century around Scottish events. The story is narrated by David Balfour, ...
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Robert Louis StevensonOr The Mutiny of The Hispaniola A coming-of-age adventure novel narrating a tale of buccaneers and buried gold. The book had an enormous influence ...
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Charles DickensIt was the best of times... Dicken’s best-known work of historical fiction and regularly cited as the best-selling novel of all time. The novel tel...
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Alfred ChurchTold From VirgilThe retelling of the Æneid by Rev. Alfred J. Church. The book is intended as an introduction to Virgil’s epic poem. The writing st...
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Sir Walter ScottRob Roy MacGregor A historical fiction novel and one of the Waverly novels. The story is narrated by Englishman Frank Osbadistone who due to a disa...
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Rudyard KiplingKimball O’Hara The story of Kimball O’Hara, or ‘Kim’ for short, an orphaned son of an Irish solider and poor Irish mother who have both died in pov...
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Thomas BulfinchMythos Bulfinch originally published his work as three volumes: The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes, published in 1855; The Age of Chiv...
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Nathaniel HawthorneA Romance A classic work of historical fiction set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1642 to 1649. The novel tells the story of Hester P...
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