# Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

An audiobook by James Baldwin, read by LibriVox volunteers (3 h 28 min, English).

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)

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