Literature Archives - Classical Education Books

The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus

AWiebe — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 19:13:52 +0000

This new edition of a classic work will delight fans of all ages. Preserved for generations to come, the spirited antics of the wily Brer Rabbit and his woodland friends come to life in this comprehensive volume - a continuing testament to the lasting power of the folktale within the American literary scene.

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Simon Brute and the Western Adventure

AWiebe — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:28:28 +0000

During France’s days of turmoil in the 1790s, thirteen-year-old Simon Bruté, helping hide priests from the guillotine, little imagines the path his ardent soul will travel. When the Reign of Terror calms down, Bruté goes to Paris; he wins honors at the College of Medicine. But now responding to a deeper hunger, the young man [...]

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Joseph the Huron

AWiebe — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:21:00 +0000

Much like an unexpected buried treasure, this narrative of a young Huron man has come to light again today. “Chiwatenwa’s” story, recaptured by author Antoinette Bosco from the records of the earliest Jesuit missionaries in Canada, portrays the man (who would one day be christened “Joseph”) in the fascinating details of his tribal culture. In [...]

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The Adventures of the Redcrosse Knight

AWiebe — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:57:17 +0000

In sparkling prose, the author retells Book One of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene for young readers. Celebrating the lost age of knights and chivalry, the story follows the young Redcrosse Knight as he faces a series of trials that will bring him to the final task laid upon him by the Fairy Queen, Gloriana. [...]

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Saint Robert

AWiebe — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:43:06 +0000

At age fifteen, Robert Bellarmine, a youth with an eager mind and a gift for words, enrolls in a new school run by the young order of Jesuits who have just arrived in his Italian hilltop town. This biography for young readers paints a picture of St. Robert Bellarmine—later proclaimed a Doctor of the Church—as [...]

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The Golden Name Day

AWiebe — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 16:31:57 +0000

While her mother is recovering from an illness, nine-year-old Nancy travels to her mother’s childhood friends who are like family. “Grandpa” and “Grandma” Benson, together with “Aunt Martha” and young “cousins” Sigrid, Elsa, and Helga, welcome Nancy into their Swedish-American heritage of songs, traditions, and name day parties. Enthralled by the notion of name days, [...]

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The Curse of the Viking Grave

CEBAdmin — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:43:41 +0000

Titles by Farley Mowat

Otherwise
Never Cry Wolf
The Farfarers
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
Owls in the Family
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
The Black Joke
Lost in the Barrens
Eastern Passage

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Lost in the Barrens

CEBAdmin — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:31:20 +0000

Titles by Farley Mowat

Otherwise
Never Cry Wolf
The Farfarers
The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be
Owls in the Family
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
The Black Joke
Lost in the Barrens
Eastern Passage

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The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be

CEBAdmin — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 20:01:55 +0000

Titles by Farley Mowat

Otherwise
Never Cry Wolf
The Farfarers
Owls in the Family
The Curse of the Viking Grave
The Boat Who Wouldn’t Float
The Black Joke
Lost in the Barrens
Eastern Passage

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Canadian Wonder Tales

Hester VanBraeden — Mon, 17 May 2021 21:22:30 +0000

Canadian Wonder Tales is a collection of classic Canadian folklore stories by Cyrus MacMillan. The tales in this collection have been gathered in various parts of Canada. They have been selected from a larger collection of folk-tales and folk-songs made by the writer for more academic and scientific purposes. They are not the product of [...]

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Shadows On the Rock

CEBAdmin — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 23:07:08 +0000

In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas creche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors and then as legends—and in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder.

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Evangeline

Hester VanBraeden — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:28:44 +0000

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. "Evangeline" is considered Longfellow's masterpiece among [...]

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