--- title: Concerning These Stories. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Concerning These Stories., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / Concerning These Stories. # Concerning These Stories. Concerning These Stories. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 15 sentences and 419 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/1/) — There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is an indispensable part of one's education. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/2/) — These stories are of several different classes. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/3/) — To one class belong the popular fairy tales which have delighted untold generations of children, and will continue to delight them to the end of time. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/4/) — To another class belong the limited number of fables that have come down to us through many channels from hoar antiquity. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/5/) — To a third belong the charming stories of olden times that are derived from the literatures of ancient peoples, such as the Greeks and the Hebrews. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/6/) — A fourth class includes the half-legendary tales of a distinctly later origin, which have for their subjects certain romantic episodes in the lives of well-known heroes and famous men, or in the history of a people. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/7/) — It is to this last class that most of the fifty stories contained in the present volume belong. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/8/) — As a matter of course, some of these stories are better known, and therefore more \_famous\_, than others. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/9/) — 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. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/10/) — 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; nearly all are the subjects of frequent allusions in poetry and prose and in the conversation of educated people. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/11/) — Care has been taken to exclude everything that is not strictly within the limits of probability; hence there is here no trespassing upon the domain of the fairy tale, the fable, or the myth. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/12/) — That children naturally take a deep interest in such stories, no person can deny; that the reading of them will not only give pleasure, but will help to lay the foundation for broader literary studies, can scarcely be doubted. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/13/) — It is believed, therefore, that the present collection will be found to possess an educative value which will commend it as a supplementary reader in the middle primary grades at school. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/14/) — It is also hoped that the book will prove so attractive that it will be in demand out of school as well as in. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/2/15/) — Acknowledgments are due to Mrs. Charles A. Lane, by whom eight or ten of the stories were suggested. - ← previous: [Opening](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/1/) - next →: [King Alfred and the Cakes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/3/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)