Puffin Classics Books

Tales from Shakespeare
Around the World in Eighty Days
Treasure Island
Pinocchio
Little Lord Fauntleroy
chapter • 383 Pages
Tales from Shakespeare
Book #1

Tales from Shakespeare

Written by Mary Lamb and Charles Lamb
10 - 99
Reading age
383
Page count
May 27, 2010
Publication date
Paperback
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Summary

With an introduction by Dame Judi Dench.TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE is a perfect introduction to Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Charles and Mary Lamb vividly bring to life the power of Hamlet and Othello, and the fun of As You Like It. They never lose the feel of Shakespeare’s language and the tales are classic literature in their own right.

Puffin Classics Series

Published from 1996 - 2018
20 books
chapter • 383 Pages
Tales from Shakespeare
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chapter • 292 Pages
Around the World in Eighty Days
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chapter • 336 Pages
Treasure Island
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picture • 272 Pages
Pinocchio
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chapter • 256 Pages
Little Lord Fauntleroy
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chapter • 240 Pages
The Jungle Book
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chapter • 215 Pages
The Red Badge of Courage
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chapter • 150 Pages
The Call of the Wild
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chapter • 416 Pages
King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
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chapter • 320 Pages
The Adventures of Robin Hood
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chapter • 304 Pages
Tales of the Greek Heroes
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chapter • 224 Pages
The Tale of Troy
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chapter • 256 Pages
Myths of the Norsemen
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chapter • 230 Pages
Tales of Ancient Egypt
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chapter • 276 Pages
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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chapter • 113 Pages
The Canterbury Tales
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chapter • 112 Pages
The Odyssey
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chapter • 400 Pages
The Count of Monte Cristo
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chapter • 208 Pages
Aladdin and Other Tales from The Arabian Nights
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chapter • 224 Pages
Aesop's Fables
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The Creatives Behind the Books

    Author
    Carlo Collodi

    Carlo Collodi (Carlo Lorenzini) was a children’s writer born in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and writer of the world-renowned fairy tale novel The Adventures of Pinocchio.

    Author
    Frances Hodgson Burnett

    Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was born in Manchester. She had a very poor upbringing and used to escape from the horror of her surroundings by writing stories. In 1865 her family emigrated to the USA where she married and became the successful author of many children’s books including Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.

    Author
    Rudyard Kipling

    Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling’s works of ction include the classic Just So Stories and The Jungle Book.

    Author
    Jack London

    Jack Griffith London was a California-based writer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. He is most well known stories are the classics The Call of the Wild and White Fang.

    Author
    Roger Lancelyn Green

    Roger Lancelyn Green (1918-1987) was a biographer of children’s writers and a reteller of myths, legends and fairy tales. He was a member of the Oxford literary group the Inklings, along with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.Walter Crane (1845-1915) designed and illustrated the first successful series of mass-produced color books of high quality. The series began in 1863 and for the next thirty years Crane was pre-eminent as an illustrator. In addition to book illustration, he designed textiles, wallpaper and tapestries, and was a prominent member of the Arts and Crafts Movement.

    Author
    Geoffrey Chaucer

    Often referred to as the father of English poetry, Geoffrey Chaucer was a fourteenth-century philosopher, alchemist, astrologer, bureaucrat, diplomat, and author of many significant poems. Chaucer’s writing was influential in English literary tradition, as it introduced new rhyming schemes and helped develop the vernacular tradition–the use of everyday English–rather than the literary French and Latin, which were common in written works of the time. Chaucer’s best-known–and most imitated–works include The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and The House of Fame.

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    Homer
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    Aesop
    Illustrator
    William Harvey

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