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    Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)
    Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)
    Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)
    Audiobook3 hours

    Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

    Written by James Baldwin

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources, and are current in the literature of many lands; some have come to us through the ballads and folk tales of the English people; a few are of quite recent origin (Excerpt from text)
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)
    Author

    James Baldwin

    James Baldwin (1924–87) was a writer and civil rights activist. Among his best-known works are the novel Giovanni’s Room, the essay collection Notes of a Native Son, and the polemic The Fire Next Time.

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