Stories From Seven Old Favorites

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Excerpt from Stories From Seven Old Favorites: Selected Arranged by Eva March Thappan This volume is made up of stories from seven famous books. These books are as different as they can possibly be, and yet there are not many boys and girls who do not like every one of them. The chief reason for this is because they seem so true, so much more "real" than most other stories. When you read about Tom Thumb, for instance, you do not really believe that there ever was a little boy no bigger than his mother's thumb, at least, you do not believe it in the same way that you believe the sun shines or the wind blows, but when you read "Robinson Crusoe, " you feel as if every word of it must be true. The first of these books is "The Pilgrim's Progress." In one way it is a little like a fable, that is, when you read it the first time, it is simply a good story. Afterwards - sometimes a long while afterwards - you read it again or sit thinking about it, and suddenly you see that it has another meaning, that it is more than the story of a man who makes a wonderful journey. This book was written in jail by a man named John Bunyan. The English laws of that time would not allow any one to preach except clergymen of the Church of England. Bunyan, however, felt that it would be wicked for him to obey these laws, so he kept on preaching. He was thrown into prison, and the prisons of those days were horrible places. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.