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Tales from Shakespeare

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Author(s):Charles Lamb
Mary Lamb
Illustrator(s):Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Publisher(s): Macmillan Company
Year Published: 1923
Type: Hardcover
Genre: British
Humorous
Play
Age Range: Ages 7-9: Short Chapter Books
Pages: 375
This is an All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB)
OCLC: 1706463

Description

Seventeen favorite plays by the Bard of Avon.

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Other Editions

Tales from Shakespeare (1899)

Brief prose versions of the most famous Shakespeare plays. Mary did the comedies, Charles did the tragedies. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co.
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Tales from Shakespeare (1909)

This edition of prose versions of Shakespeare’s best known plays has colored illustrations. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co.
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Tales from Shakespeare (1918)

A celebrated collection of prose retellings of Shakespeare’s plays. Read online at archive.org.

Publisher: Harper & Brothers
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Tales from Shakespeare (1922)

An unusually well illustrated edition of this classic, including twenty of the plays. The Comedies were done by Mary; the tragedies by Charles. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Publisher: David McKay Company
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