Books with author Flora Steel

English Fairy TalesFlora Annie Steel, english writer (1847-1929)This ebook presents «English Fairy Tales», from Flora Annie Steel. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.TABLE OF CONTENTS-01- ABOUT THIS BOOK-02- ST. GEORGE OF MERRIE ENGLAND-03- THE STORY OF THE THREE BEARS-04- TOM,TIT,TOT-05- THE GOLDEN SNUFF BOX-06- AND THEY NEVER CAME BACK-07- TATTERCOATS-08- THE THREE FEATHERS-09- LAZY JACK-10- JACK THE GIANT KILLER-11- THE THREE SILLIES-12- THE GOLDEN BALL-13- THE TWO SISTERS-14- THE LAIDLY WORM-15- TITTY MOUSE AND TATTY MOUSE-16- JACK AND THE BEANSTALK-17- THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY-18- CATSKIN-19- THE THREE LITTLE PIGS-20- NIX NAUGHT NOTHING-21- MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR-22- THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB-23- HENNY PENNY-24- THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL-25- MR. FOX-26- DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT-27- THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG-28- THE WEE BANNOCK-29- HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUN-30- THE BOGEY BEAST-31- LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD-32- CHILDE ROWLAND-33- THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM-34- OF HEDGING A CUCKOO-35- OF SENDING CHEESES-36- OF DROWNING EELS-37- OF SENDING RENT-38- OF COUNTING-39- CAPORUSHES-40- THE BABES IN THE WOOD-41- THE RED ETTIN-42- THE FISH AND THE RING-43- LAWKAMERCYME-44- MASTER OF ALL MASTERS-45- MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT-46- THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK-47- THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END-48- THE ROSE TREE

Contents:1.THE BLACK BULL OF NORROWAY2.CATSKIN3.THE THREE LITTLE PIGS4.NIX NAUGHT NOTHING5.MR. AND MRS. VINEGAR6.THE TRUE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB7.HENNY-PENNY8.THE THREE HEADS OF THE WELL9.MR. FOX10.DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT11.THE OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG12.THE WEE BANNOCK13.HOW JACK WENT OUT TO SEEK HIS FORTUNE14.THE BOGEY-BEAST15.CHILDE ROWLAND16.THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM17.CAPORUSHES18.THE RED ETTIN19.THE FISH AND THE RING20.MASTER OF ALL MASTERS21.MOLLY WHUPPIE AND THE DOUBLE-FACED GIANT22.THE ASS, THE TABLE, AND THE STICK23.THE WELL OF THE WORLD'S END24.THE ROSE TREEINTRODUCTIONThe stories collected in this volume have been selected from many sources, because in the judgment of the editor, they are sound pieces of writing, wholesome in tone, varied in interest and style, and interesting. It is his hope that they will not only furnish good reading, but that they will suggest the kind of reading in this field that should be within the reach of children.Children ought to have stories at hand precisely as they ought to have food, toys, games, playgrounds, because stories meet one of the normal needs of their natures. But these stories, like the food given to the body, ought to be intelligently selected, not only for their quality but for their adaptation. There are many good books which ought not to be in the hands of children because children have not had the experience which interprets them; they will either fail to understand, or if they understand, they will suffer a sudden forcing of growth in the knowledge of life which is always unwholesome.The fairy tale belongs to the child and ought always to be within his reach, not only because it is his special literary form and his nature craves it, but because it is one of the most vital of the textbooks offered to him in the school of life.As a class, children not only possess the faculty of imagination, but are very largely occupied with it during the most sensitive and formative years, and those who lack it are brought under its spell by their fellows. They do not accurately distinguish between the actual and the imaginary, and they live at ease in a world out of which paths run in every direction into wonderland.

This illustrated book is the children's tale of Akbar as a child. Its great for the young and the young at heart. Historical Background: Akbar was thirteen years old when he ascended the Mughal throne in Delhi (February 1556), following the death of his father Humayun. During his reign, he eliminated military threats from the powerful Pashtun descendants of Sher Shah Suri, and at the Second Battle of Panipat he decisively defeated the newly self-declared Hindu king Hemu. It took him nearly two more decades to consolidate his power and bring all the parts of northern and central India into his direct realm. He influenced the whole of the Indian Subcontinent as he ruled a greater part of it as an emperor. As an emperor, Akbar solidified his rule by pursuing diplomacy with the powerful Hindu Rajput caste, and by marrying Rajput princesses. Akbar's reign significantly influenced art and culture in the country. He was a great patron of art and architecture He took a great interest in painting, and had the walls of his palaces adorned with murals. Besides encouraging the development of the Mughal school, he also patronized the European style of painting. He was fond of literature, and had several Sanskrit works translated into Persian and Persian scriptures translated in Sanskrit apart from getting many Persian works illustrated by painters from his court. During the early years of his reign, he showed intolerant attitude towards Hindus and other religions, but later exercised tolerance towards non-islamic faiths by rolling back some of the strict sharia laws. His administration included numerous Hindu landlords, courtiers and military generals. He began a series of religious debates where Muslim scholars would debate religious matters with Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Carvaka atheists, Jews, and Portuguese Roman Catholic Jesuits. He treated these religious leaders with great consideration, irrespective of their faith, and revered them. He not only granted lands and money for the mosques but the list of the recipients included a huge number Hindu temples in north and central India, Christian churches in Goa and a land grant to the newly born Sikh faith for the construction of a place of worship. The famous Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab is constructed on the same site. He even founded a religion, the Din-i-Ilahi (Divine Faith), which included the teachings of major religions of the world, but it amounted only to a form of personality cult for Akbar and started dissolving after his death. Shahzada (Son of an emperor) Akbar was born on 14 he fourth day of Rajab, 949 AH), at the Rajput Fortress of Umerkot in Sindh (in modern day Pakistan), where Emperor Humayun and his recently wedded wife, Hamida Banu Begum of Paat village were taking refuge. At birth Akbar was named Badruddin, because he was born on the night of a badr (full moon). After the capture of Kabul by Humayun, Badruddin's circumcision ceremony was held and his date of birth and name were changed to throw off evil sorcerers and he was re-named Jalalu-d-din Muhammad by Humayun, a name which he had heard in his dream at Lahore.

Mrs. Steel’s ever-delightful pen is here employed in giving us pictures as it were from her experience – stories of India, stories of the Highlands, quick impressions of modern life – each a rounded, well-defined tale, written with so sane a touch, with so pleasant a mind behind them that she makes the strongest appeal to her public. “Not even Kipling makes so strong an appeal to those who regard the contact of Orient and Occident with an intense interest which veers between fascination and quaking. In this volume are brief love stories, old traditions and studies of unguessed phases of native and Eurasian life.” -The Congregationalist and Christian World “For twenty years now Flora Annie Steel’s ‘On the Face of the Waters’ has been popular as a great story of fighting and mystery in the great Indian Mutiny. Her recent visit to America, when she was held up at Ellis Island, brought her name again to the fore, and now a new volume of short stories, ‘The Mercy of the Lord,’ are rather timely, dealing as they do with the English army and the quiet heroism of the men who keep the Empire’s frontier in India.” -The Bookman “The author has a rare gift for descriptive romance and she knows the Orient from along years of personal associations. This is a tale of fighting men, the soldier, the engineer and the native, always with its colorful background.” -The Bookseller

Tales of the Punjab: Folklore of India by Flora Annie Steel, with illustrations by J. Lockwood Kipling. "A book that will be welcomed no less eagerly by the children than by students of folklore from a scientific standpoint is Mrs. Steel's collection of Indian stories, entitled ' Tales of the Punjab.' They were taken down by her from the very lips of the natives in some of the most primitive districts in India. Yet these tales, handed down solely by word of mouth from one generation to another, could hardly be distinguished from those in a Teutonic collection like that of the Brothers Grimm ; and even closer examination serves only to impress upon us more strongly than ever before the unity of the great Indo-European family of nations." — Nashville Banner. "The stories of this collection will not only amuse the juveniles, but as unwitting revelations of the roots of Hindoo character and customs, they would secure the attention of a Darwin." — Christian Leader.