Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold is 32,411 words — about 2h 10m at 250 words per minute, across 1 chapter. Measure your own speed and read it here.
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There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. These stories are of several different classes. To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time. To another class belong the limit…
Details
- AuthorJames Baldwin
- SourceProject Gutenberg #18442
- Length32,411 words · 2h 10m of reading
- Chapters1
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-09-06
Contents
1 chapter
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01Mignon
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