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History - Ancient Genre
Books in the History - Ancient genre:
The True Story Book (1893)
True stories of adventure. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
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The Children’s Plutarch (1906)
Abridged and simplified biographies of famous Greek and Roman personages. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
F. J. Gould
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
Tales of Troy and Greece (1907)
A retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Homer
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Children’s Plutarch (1910)
Abridged and simplified biographies of famous Roman personages. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
F. J. Gould
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Children’s Plutarch (1910)
Abridged and simplified biographies of famous Greek personages. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
F. J. Gould
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
A collection of biographies of saints and heroes. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Junior Classics Volume 7 (1912)
Short accounts of courageous men and women from history for children from six to sixteen. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
The Story of Greece Told to Boys and Girls (1913)
Author(s):
Mary MacGregor
Illustrator(s):
Walter Crane
The Early Life of Mr. Man (1914)
The history of the human race before the flood. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. Boyd Smith
Illustrator(s):
E. Boyd Smith
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
A tangled tale of love and deceit unfolds beneath Vesuvius in the year 79 A.D. and comes to a climax with the volcano’s eruption
Author(s):
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
Illustrator(s):
F. C. Yohn
The Stream of History (1928)
A history of the world, variously in one and four volumes.
Author(s):
Geoffrey Parsons
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Taming the Wild Grasses (1932)
An elementary school ancient history.
Author(s):
Elizabeth Forbes O’Hara
Illustrator(s):
Kate Seredy
The Story Book of Food (1933)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Iron and Steel (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Wheels (1935)
Wheels, wheels, wheels, wheels everywhere.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
The Story Book of Wheels, Ships, Trains, Aircraft (1935)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Joseph and His Brothers: From the Story Told in the Book of Genesis (1938)
Author(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Moses (1938)
Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Ruth (1938)
How a Moabite woman became the great-grandmother of the king of Israel.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Stories from the Old Testament: Joseph, Moses, Ruth, David (1938)
Four favorite Old Testament stories of the Patriarchs.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
The Bible
Illustrator(s):
Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham