Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 3


Read by Ellen Preckel

(5 stars; 8 reviews)

Another wonderful compilation of stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie! This volume, the 3rd of 12, contains 2 main sections: Classic Tales and Old Fashioned Stories. Of the first section, assistant editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler says, "After our boys and girls have read the first half of this volume, containing selected and simplified stories from some of the greatest books of all time, their authors will cease to be merely names. Homer, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Cervantes and Bunyan will be found here as familiar and easy in style as "Cinderella" or "The Three Bears." The second section's introduction (by GJB) alludes to the fact that modern stories tell a tale 'just' to entertain, but old fashioned stories, such as the ones in this volume, were usually written to teach a moral lesson such as the importance of being just and good or industrious. (Summary by Ellen Preckel... and friends!)

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Introductions 10:50 Read by Ellen Preckel
Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Was Knighted 11:12 Read by Ellen Preckel
Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Rescued Andres and How He Returned Home 7:04 Read by Ellen Preckel
Don Quixote: How Don Quixote And Sancho Panza Started On Their Search For Adventures And How Don Quixote Fought With The Windmills 7:01 Read by Ellen Preckel
Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Won A Helmet How He Fought With Two Armies And How Sancho's Ass Was Stolen 8:25 Read by Ellen Preckel
Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Saw Dulcinea 6:47 Read by Ellen Preckel
Don Quixote: How Don Quixote Fought With A Lion And How He Defeated The Moors 15:44 Read by Ellen Preckel
Don Quixote: The Battle With The Bulls; The Fight With The Knight Of The white moon; and How Don Quixote Died 10:29 Read by Ellen Preckel
Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Birth And Early Voyages 3:41 Read by Ellen Preckel
Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver Is Wrecked On The Coast Of Lilliput 10:27 Read by Ellen Preckel
Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver Is Taken As A Prisoner To The Capital Of Lilliput 9:56 Read by Ellen Preckel
Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver Is Freed, And Captures The Blefuscan Fleet 14:51 Read by Ellen Preckel
Gulliver's Travels: Gulliver's Escape From Lilliput And Return To England 8:58 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Arabian Nights: Aladdin And The Wonderful Lamp 28:07 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Arabian Nights: The Enchanted Horse 13:07 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Arabian Nights: Sinbad The Sailor 27:17 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Iliad of Homer: The Story Of What Led To The Siege Of Troy 4:24 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Iliad of Homer: The Council 10:09 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Iliad of Homer: The Fight Between Paris And Menelaus 9:56 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Iliad of Homer: Hector And Andromache 6:45 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Iliad of Homer: How Patroclus Fought And Died 7:22 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Iliad of Homer: The Rousing Of Achilles 7:44 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Odyssey of Homer: What Happened In Ithaca While Odysseus Was Away 14:20 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Odyssey of Homer: How Odysseus Came Home 16:23 Read by Ellen Preckel
Robinson Crusoe: How Robinson First Went To Sea And How He Was Shipwrecked 9:06 Read by Ellen Preckel
Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Works Hard At Making Himself A Home 8:33 Read by Ellen Preckel
Robinson Crusoe: The Earthquake And Hurricane And How Robinson Built A Boat 8:20 Read by Ellen Preckel
Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Builds A Second Boat, In Which He Is Swept Out To Sea 6:45 Read by Ellen Preckel
Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Sees A Footprint On The Sand, Finds A Cave, And Rescues Friday 16:46 Read by Ellen Preckel
Robinson Crusoe: Robinson Trains Friday And They Build A Large Boat, They Rescue Two Prisoners From The Cannibals 6:31 Read by Ellen Preckel
Robinson Crusoe: Arrival Of An English Ship: Robinson Sails For Home 12:51 Read by Ellen Preckel
Canterbury Tales: Dorigen 22:15 Read by Ellen Preckel
Canterbury Tales: Emelia 21:20 Read by Ellen Preckel
Canterbury Tales: Griselda 18:25 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Pilgrim's Progress 57:13 Read by Ellen Preckel
Shakespeare: The Tempest 21:33 Read by Ellen Preckel
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 22:31 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Queen Of The May 12:22 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Bad News 5:24 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Susan's Guinea-Fowl 8:28 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Susan Visits The Abbey 7:41 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Susan's Pet Lamb 9:02 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: The Blind Harper 8:17 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Good News 12:44 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Barbara Visits The Abbey 7:47 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: A Surprise For Susan 6:12 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Barbara's Accident 6:36 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: The Prize-Giving 5:31 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Attorney Case In Trouble 4:59 Read by Ellen Preckel
Simple Susan: Susan's Birthday 5:32 Read by Ellen Preckel
Limby Lumpy 9:07 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Sore Tongue 9:26 Read by Ellen Preckel
Eyes And No Eyes, Or The Art Of Seeing 12:14 Read by Ellen Preckel
Prince Life 25:12 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Fruits Of Disobedience, Or The Kidnapped Child 20:45 Read by Ellen Preckel
Dicky Random, Or Good Nature Is Nothing Without Good Conduct 17:51 Read by Ellen Preckel
Embellishment 20:01 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Oyster Patties 10:21 Read by Ellen Preckel
Two Little Boys: The Good-Natured Little Boy 7:21 Read by Ellen Preckel
Two Little Boys: The Ill-Natured Little Boy 13:09 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Purple Jar 10:38 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Three Cakes 8:39 Read by Ellen Preckel
Amendment 36:55 Read by Ellen Preckel
Trial 13:59 Read by Ellen Preckel
A Plot Of Gunpowder: An Old Lady Seized For A Guy 22:27 Read by Ellen Preckel
Uncle David's Nonsensical Story About Giants And Fairies 18:08 Read by Ellen Preckel
The Inquisitive Girl 11:17 Read by Ellen Preckel
Busy Idleness 14:52 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: Introduction 6:00 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: How And About Little Margery And Her Brother 1:51 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: How And About Mr. Smith 1:07 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Margery Obtained The Name Of Goody Two-Shoes, And What Happened In The Parish 1:58 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Margery Learned To Read, And By Degrees Taught Others 1:38 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Two-Shoes Became A Trotting Tutoress, And How She Taught Her Young Pupils 6:10 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: How The Whole Parish Was Frightened 2:22 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: Containing An Account Of All The Spirits Or Things She Saw In The Church 4:18 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: Of Something Which Happened To Little Margery Two-Shoes In A Barn, More Dreadful Than The Ghost In The Church, And How She Returned Good For Evil To Her Enemy, Sir Timothy 2:41 Read by Ellen Preckel
Little Goody Two-Shoes: How Little Margery Was Made Principal Of A Country College 2:27 Read by Ellen Preckel
Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: Of Her School, Her Ushers, Or Assistants, And Her Manner Of Teaching AND Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: A Scene Of Distress In A School 2:37 Read by Ellen Preckel
Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: Of The Amazing Sagacity And Instinct Of A Little Dog 2:31 Read by Ellen Preckel
Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: What Happened At Farmer Grove's, And How She Gratified Him For The Use Of His Room 2:58 Read by Ellen Preckel
Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: The Case Of Mrs. Margery 5:06 Read by Ellen Preckel
Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes: The True Use Of Riches 1:44 Read by Ellen Preckel

Reviews

My 10-year old daughter loves it!


(5 stars)