THROUGH GOLDEN DOORS
TO
ENGLISH LITERATURE

THROUGH GOLDEN DOORS
TO
ENGLISH LITERATURE

A NEW SERIES
By Jeannette Marks
Lecturer at Mt. Holyoke College

The master-stories of English literature told for youngreaders. The author, who has been professor of English Literatureat Mt. Holyoke and the author of several successfulbooks for both younger and older readers, has been occupiedfor a long time in making a selection of the best stories from thegreatest English writers beginning with "Beowulf" and the dawnof English letters.

The present volume offers masterpieces chosen from theearliest English literature from the seventh to the fourteenthcentury, stories which are not readily accessible.

The second volume will offer hero tales of the Middle Englishperiod, from Chaucer and others.

In later volumes selections will be made from the mastersof modern English literature.

EARLY ENGLISH HERO TALES

From 600 to 1340
Other books in preparation
Each illustrated, 12mo, Cloth, 50 cents net
Harper & Brothers, Publishers

MEDIEVAL LONDON
From Manuscript 16 F. ii in the British Museum

EARLY
ENGLISH
HERO TALES

TOLD BY
JEANNETTE MARKS
WELLESLEY M.A.
LECTURER AT MT. HOLYOKE COLLEGE

ILLUSTRATED

HARPER & BROTHERS
NEW YORK & LONDON

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY HARPER & BROTHERS

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
PUBLISHED APRIL, 1915

TO
H. M. C.

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