Strange Stories from History for Young People (Illustrated)

by George Cary Eggleston

Overview

Strange Stories from History is a collection of 21 short stories of people and events from around the world: Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and a lesser-known sculptor today, Antonio Canova. The stories are all short and can be read and finished quickly. Eggleston claims the stories are historically-accurate, but some reviewers have questioned this.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9784801476967
Publisher:	Wise Owl Books
Publication date:	07/13/2022
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

George Cary Eggleston was born in Vevay, Indiana, on November 26, 1839. His older brother, Edward Eggleston, was also a writer and is more widely known than George. When the boys were quite young, their father died, leaving their mother to raise four children. He joined the Confederate Army, and his work, A Rebel’s Recollections (1875), first published as a series of papers, was written about his experiences during the Civil War.

Eggleston was quite prolific outside of his journalistic and editorial career, writing novels, histories, biographies, and an autobiography. Much of his writing was set in Virginia and South Carolina and centered around Civil War era pioneering life and romance (Our Land, Our Literature).