The Greatest Children's Classics of All Time stands as a monumental anthology, bringing together an astonishing breadth of literary genius spanning several centuries. This collection not only showcases the rich diversity of storytelling methods and thematic explorations but also serves as a testament to the evocative power of children's literature. From the enchanting realms of fantasy and adventure to the poignant tales of growth and discovery, it encapsulates a wide array of literary styles. The anthology includes seminal works that have shaped the childhoods of generations, illustrating the universality of the human experience through the eyes of youth. The contributing authors and editors, hailing from diverse cultural and historical contexts, bring a wealth of perspectives to the anthology. Writers such as Jules Verne, Lewis Carroll, and Mark Twain, among others, have played pivotal roles in pioneering genres like fantasy, adventure, and the coming-of-age narrative. Their works align with various literary movements, encompassing Romanticism, Victorian literature, and the early forms of modern children's literature. This confluence of voices not only enriches the literary tapestry of the collection but also highlights the evolution of children's literature through different cultural lenses, offering insights into the societal values and educational philosophies of their times. This anthology is an indispensable compilation for readers seeking to immerse themselves in the world of classic children's literature. It offers a unique opportunity to engage with the works of literary titans, whose stories have transcended time and cultural barriers to speak to the universal qualities of youth. For educators, students, and enthusiasts of literary history, The Greatest Children's Classics of All Time provides a comprehensive survey of the genre's development, showcasing the depth and diversity of storytelling that has continued to enchant readers of all ages. The collection encourages exploration and reflection, inviting readers to ponder the lessons nested within these timeless tales.
The Greatest Children's Classics of All Time : Over 1400 Novels & Stories in One Volume
Authors:
- Jules Verne
- Lewis Carroll
- Johanna Spyri
- Mark Twain
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Oscar Wilde
- George MacDonald
- Charles Lamb
- Mary Lamb
- Howard Pyle
- Jack London
- Louisa May Alcott
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Andrew Lang
- John Meade Falkner
- Jonathan Swift
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- Daniel Defoe
- Johnny Gruelle
- Aesop
- Hugh Lofting
- Emerson Hough
- George Haven Putnam
- Anna Sewell
- Rudyard Kipling
- Beatrix Potter
- John Ruskin
- Kenneth Grahame
- Arthur Ransome
- Eva March Tappan
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Susan Coolidge
- Carlo Collodi
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Georgette Leblanc
- Jennie Hall
- Carl Sandburg
- Ruth Stiles Gannett
- Evelyn Sharp
- Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Marion St. John Webb
- L. Frank Baum
- J. M. Barrie
- Eleanor H. Porter
- E. Nesbit
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- E. Boyd Smith
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Vishnu Sharma
- Margery Williams
- Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Dorothy Canfield
- Howard R. Garis
- Brothers Grimm
- Thornton Burgess
- W. R. S. Ralston
- R. L. Stevenson
- Miguel Cervantes
Format:
Duration:
- 16393 pages
Language:
English
Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde
Jules Verne
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Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde – neu erzählt : Gesprochen von Friedhelm Ptok
Jules Verne
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Jules Verne: In 80 Tagen um die Welt : Ein Roman – ungekürzt gelesen.
Jules Verne
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Die Kinder des Kapitäns Grant - Der Abenteuer-Klassiker
Jules Verne
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Eine Reise mit dem Ballon
Jules Verne
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12 Classic Books You Need to Read Before You Grow up
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Mark Twain, Eleanor H. Porter, Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Jack London, Lyman Frank Baum, Margery Williams, J.M. Barrie
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
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Les conquistadors de l’Amérique centrale : Histoire des grands voyageurs
Jules Verne
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Magellan : sa vie et son voyage autour du monde
Jules Verne, Elisée Reclus
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Das Karpatenschloss
Jules Verne
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Zwei Jahre Ferien : Ausgabe in zwei Bänden
Jules Verne
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Der Südstern : oder: Das Land der Diamanten
Jules Verne
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a prolific French author whose writing about various innovations and technological advancements laid much of the foundation of modern science fiction. Verne’s love of travel and adventure, including his time spent sailing the seas, inspired several of his short stories and novels.
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Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, and photographer. He is especially remembered for bringing to life the beloved and long-revered tale of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass (1871).
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) was an American abolitionist and author of more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a realistic account of life for African-Americans under slavery; it reached millions and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 and died on the 30th November 1900. He was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.
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Howard Pyle
The work of American illustrator and author Howard Pyle (1853–1911) has appeared in more than 3,500 publications, and in his lifetime, he became one of the country's most famous illustrators. On his death in 1911, the New York Times called Pyle "the father of American magazine illustration as it is known to-day." He is best known for his 1883 novel, The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood.
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Jack London
Jack London (1876–1916) was a prolific American novelist and short story writer. His most notable works include White Fang, The Call of the Wild, and The Sea-Wolf. He was born in San Francisco, California.
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott was born in 1832 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She is best known for Little Women (1868), which is loosely based on her own life and proved to be one of the most popular children’s books ever written. Three sequels followed: Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo’s Boys (1886). Alcott was the daughter of the famous transcendentalist Bronson Alcott and was friend of Emerson and Thoreau. In addition to writing, she worked as a teacher, governess, and Civil War nurse, as well as being an advocate of abolition, women’s rights, and temperance. She died in 1888 and is buried in Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924) was born in Manchester, England, but moved to America as a teenager. A gifted writer from childhood, Burnett took to writing as a means of supporting her family, creating stories for Lady’s Book, Harper’s Bazaar, and other magazines. Though she began writing novels for adults, she gained lasting success writing for children. She is best known for Little Lord Fauntleroy (1855–1856), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).
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Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift was born of English descent in Dublin, Ireland in 1667. He went to school at Trinity College in Ireland, before moving to England at the age of 22. After a short stint in the Anglican Church, he began his career as a writer, satirizing religious, political, and educational institutions. He wrote in defense of the Irish people, especially in his A Modest Proposal, which made him a champion of his people. His most famous work is Gulliver’s Travels which was published anonymously in 1726.
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Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe was born at the beginning of a period of history known as the English Restoration, so-named because it was when King Charles II restored the monarchy to England following the English Civil War and the brief dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Defoe’s contemporaries included Isaac Newton and Samuel Pepys.
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Johnny Gruelle
Johnny Gruelle was an extremely talented cartoonist, illustrator, and storyteller. He had already written and illustrated a book of original fairy tales before creating the Raggedy Ann and Andy stories. Raggedy Ann, heroine of the first book, was a favorite doll of his daughter, Marcella, who died after a long illness at the age of thirteen. Johnny Gruelle eventually created over forty Raggedy Ann and Andy books, all capturing his unique version of childhood.
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Hugh Lofting
Hugh Lofting (January 1886–September 1947) was a British author who created the beloved and timeless character of Doctor Dolittle. His stories have inspired several major motion pictures over the last sixty years, and many household names—including Rex Harrison, Eddie Murphy, and Robert Downey Jr.—have taken on the titular role. He is also the author of several other books for children.
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Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell, an English Quaker, (1820-1878), wrote only one novel in her lifetime, Black Beauty.
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. One of the most revered writers in recent history, many of his works are deemed classic literature. To this day, he maintains an avid following and reputation as one of the greatest storytellers of the past two centuries. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1936, but his stories live on—even eighty years after his passing.
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Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist; she was best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
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Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932) was a Scottish writer, most famous for one of the all-time classics of children’s literature, The Wind in the Willows, as well as for The Reluctant Dragon.
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and biographer. His work centres on his New England home and often features moral allegories with Puritan inspiration, with themes revolving around inherent good and evil. His fiction works are considered part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism.
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L. Frank Baum
Lyman Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856. Over the course of his life, Baum raised fancy poultry, sold fireworks, managed an opera house, opened a department store, and an edited a newspaper before finally turning to writing. In 1900, he published his best known book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Eventually he wrote fifty-five novels, including thirteen Oz books, plus four “lost” novels, eighty-three short stories, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. Baum died on May 6, 1919. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
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J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.
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Hans Christian Andersen
One of the most prolific and beloved writers of all time, Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen is best known for his fairy tales. Born in Odense, Denmark, in 1805, Andersen published his first story at 17. In all, he wrote more than 150 stories before his death in 1875.
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856–August 24, 1923) was an American educator and author of children’s stories, most notably the classic children’s novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She devoted her adult life to the welfare of children and worked closely with her sister, Nora A. Smith.
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Margery Williams
Margery Williams Bianco was an English-American author, primarily of popular children's books. A professional writer since the age of nineteen, she achieved lasting fame at forty-one with the 1922 publication of the classic that is her best-known work, The Velveteen Rabbit.
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Thornton Burgess
Thornton Waldo Burgess, naturalist and conservationist, loved the beauty of nature and its living creature so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had written more than 170 books and 15,000 stories for daily columns in newspapers.
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R. L. Stevenson
Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson was born on 13 November 1850, changing his second name to ‘Louis’ at the age of eighteen. He has always been loved and admired by countless readers and critics for ‘the excitement, the fierce joy, the delight in strangeness, the pleasure in deep and dark adventures’ found in his classic stories and, without doubt, he created some of the most horribly unforgettable characters in literature and, above all, Mr. Edward Hyde.
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Miguel Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was a Spanish writer known for his novels, plays, and poems. He is the author of Don Quixote and is one of the most recognized writers in Spanish literature.
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