• Publication: Famous Stories Every Child Should KnowPublication Record # 626107
• Editor: Hamilton Wright Mabie
• Date: 2005-07-08
• Catalog ID: 16247
• Publisher: Project Gutenberg
• Price:
  $0.00^?$: US dollar
• Format:
  ebook^?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
• Type: ANTHOLOGY
• Notes: Data from publisher's website. The ebook (viewed in HTML format) does not represent original page numbers or divisions. Presumably the Contents list is a transcript, for it contains print page numbers (and hyperlinks), but those do not distinguish any print edition. The ebook contains frontispiece and title page images, and no others. Frontispiece differs from that of the 1907 Doubleday, Page ed. (viewed at Internet Archive). Title page displays: -- short title -- series name at center, "The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library" -- (quote 5 lines) Published by   Doubleday, Doran & Co., for   The Parents' Institute, Inc.   Publishers of "The Parents' Magazine"   9 East 40th Street, New York The magazine publisher name and address imply source publication date January 1936 to September 1939 --from matching data stated in the monthly magazine. Fiction contents listed below (7 of 11 in the anthology) are those in the database as contents of other publications (September 2019).

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Introduction (Famous Stories Every Child Should Know) • (1907) • essay by Hamilton Wright Mabie
• A Child's Dream of a Star • (1850) • short story by Charles Dickens
• The King of the Golden River; or, The Black Brothers • (1907) • novelette by John Ruskin (variant of The King of the Golden River 1841)
• The Snow-Image: A Childish Miracle • (1850) • short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Undine • (1867) • novella by
  Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouqué^?Baron Friedrich de La Motte Fouque
  (trans. of
  Undine: Eine Erzählung^?Undine: Eine Erzaehlung
  1811) [as by Friedrich, Baron de la Motte Fouqué]
• The Great Stone Face • (1850) • novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• The Man Without a Country • non-genre • (1863) • novelette by Edward Everett Hale
• Peter Rugg, the Missing Man • (1824) • novelette by William Austin