Old Greek Stories - Couverture souple

Baldwin, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1599152967 ISBN 13 : 9781599152967

Editeur : Yesterday's Classics, 2008

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

According to his biography in the Junior Book of Authors (1951), Baldwin, a native of Indiana and lar-gely self-educated, began teaching at the age of 24. After several years he became superintendent of the graded schools in Indiana, a post he held for 18 years. The last 37 years of his life he worked with publishers, first with Harper and Brothers and later with the American Book Company. In addition to editing school books, he star-ted writing books of his own. After the publication in 1882 of The Story of Siegfried, he went on to write more than 50 others. His influence was widely felt because at one time it was estimated that of all the school books in use in the United States, over half had been written or edited by him. Unfortunately, his works are much less widely known today. So far as known, only some of his books are in print and published today.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Perhaps no other stories have ever been told so often or listened to with so much pleasure as the classic tales of ancient Greece. For many ages they have been a source of delight to young people and old, to the ignorant and the learned, to all who love to hear about and contemplate things mysterious, beautiful, and grand. They have become so incorporated into our language and thought, and so interwoven with our literature, that we could not do away with them now if we would. They are a portion of our heritage from the distant past, and they form perhaps as important a part of our intellectual life as they did of that of the people among whom they originated.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Yesterday's Classics
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1599152967
• ISBN 13: 9781599152967
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192