  CONTENTS SAVING THE BIRDS ANOTHER BIRD STORY SPEAKING A PIECE HOW A PRINCE LEARNED TO READ I THE COWHERD WHO BECAME A POET I Title: Fifty Famous People Author: James Baldwin Edition: 10 Language: English Bill Rozmiarek, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed FIFTY FAMOUS PEOPLEA BOOK OF SHORT STORIESBY JAMES BALDWINPREFATORY NOTEOne of the best things to be said of the stories in this volume is that, although they are not biographical, they are about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons were more famous than others, yet all have left enduring "footprints on the sands of time" and their names will not cease to be remembered. In each of the stories there is a basis of truth and an ethical lesson which cannot fail to have a wholesome influence; and each possesses elements of interest which, it is believed, will go far towards proving the fallibility of the doctrine that children find delight only in tales of the imaginative and unreal. The fact that there are a few more than fifty famous people mentioned in the volume may be credited to the author's wish to give good measure. |
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