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AudioFolk Tales Every Child Should Know
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LibriVox recording of Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie. Read in English by Jennifer Dorr; Todd Jenken; Lynne Thompson; Claire Schreuder; mlcui; Ellen Preckel; Jude Somers; Greg Giordano; Alexis Castro We have always loved stories. people have always entertained each other by telling tales around the campfire; traveling storytellers were huge crowd-pullers. Many of these stories were passed down through the generations, largely unchanged. "The stories made by the people, and told before evening fires, or in public places and at the gates of inns in the Orient, belong to the ages when books were few and knowledge limited, or to people whose fancy was not hampered by familiarity with or care for facts; they are the creations, as they were the amusement, of men and women who were children in knowledge, but were thinking deeply and often wisely of what life meant to them, and were eager to know and hear more about themselves, their fellows, and the world. In the earlier folk-stories one finds a childlike simplicity and readiness to believe in the marvellous; and these qualities are found also in the French peasant's version of the career of Napoleon. " (from t…
Directors & creators
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Subjects
librivox; audiobooks;short stories; folk stories; familiar
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