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The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children

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Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley's interest in history spilled over into his writings, which include The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children (1856), a children's book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia (1853), Hereward, the Last of the English (1865), and Westward Ho! (1855).

Themes
childhood
Setting
Greece
Subject
history
Audience
childrensyoung adult
Length
short · 132 pages

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