William Patten

• Nov-2025
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Great Short Stories, Volume 1 (of 3): Detective Stories, edited by William Patten, is a curated anthology that presents a seminal cross-section of the detective genre as it stood in the early twentieth century. As the first installment of a three-vol...

• Mar-2025
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Explore the rich tapestry of American life through International Short Stories: American. This carefully curated anthology presents a compelling collection of short stories, showcasing the diverse voices and experiences that define American literatur...

• Mar-2025
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The Junior Classics, Vol 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism is a collection of timeless short stories celebrating the spirit of adventure and the enduring power of courage. Compiled for young readers, this volume brings together tales of bravery and h...

• Feb-2025
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• Jul-2023
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• Oct-2012
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The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age. Th...

• Mar-2011
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• Jan-2011
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This collection of classic stories includes Mary Mapes Dodge's The race for the Silver Skates, Louisa M. Alcott's Nelly's Hospital, Charles Dickens' The Chrachits' Christmas Dinner, and two episodes from Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll....

• Mar-2009
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A collection of children's stories, including "Arabian Nights," "Robinson Crusoe," "Gulliver's Travels," certain Shakespearean comedies, "Pilgrim's Progress," and "The Startling Adventures of Baron Munchausen."...

• Nov-2008
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William Patten (1868-1946) was Managing Editor of the Harvard Classics. He edited a number of works for children, including: The Junior Classics (10 volumes) - which included volumes on Fairy and Wonder Tales, Heroes and Heroines of Chivalry, Stories...

• Dec-2005
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. T...

• Jan-1912
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

Great Short Stories, Volume 2 (of 3): Ghost Stories, edited by William Patten, is a curated anthology representing a significant cross-section of supernatural fiction in the Anglo-American tradition. This volume, part of a broader series aiming to pr...

The word chivalry is taken form the French cheval, a horse. A knight was young man, the son of a good family, who was allowed to wear arms. In the story "How the Child of the Sea was Made Knight," we are told how a boy of twelve became a page to the ...

From the Preface:As the stories from Homer and Virgil, in the versions here given, can only be looked upon as introductory to more extended reading, and are, consequently, something with which scholarship can have little if any quarrel, it has seemed...

Stories that never grow old. The Junior Classics constitute a set of books whose contents will delight children and at the same time satisfy the legitimate ethical requirements of those who have the children's best interests at heart. Beautifully ill...