# Fifty-Two Stories For Girls

> A generous story collection offering a tale for every week of the year, gathered for young readers. A treasury of adventure, sentiment, and instruction in the warm tradition of the Victorian anthology for girls.

Price: 7.50 USD · in stock

## About
A story for every week of the year: the promise of this collection is abundance, the kind of full-to-the-brim treasury that once graced a young reader's shelf and lasted a whole twelvemonth. It belongs to a much-loved tradition of anthologies gathered especially for girls.What it's aboutThe book assembles fifty-two stories chosen for young readers, offering the variety such collections favoured: adventures and everyday tales, moments of courage and kindness, and stories meant to entertain as much as to instruct. The number invites a habit of reading, one tale at a time through the year.ThemesCourage, friendship, kindness, and the gentle moral instruction characteristic of writing for the young in this period run throughout. Beneath the storytelling lies a wish to nurture character alongside imagination.Why it still mattersAnthologies like this shaped the reading lives of generations and preserve the tastes, values, and storytelling of their age. They remain a charming window onto what young readers were once given, and a source of stories still worth sharing.Who it's forYoung readers and the adults who read with them, collectors of vintage children's books, and anyone who enjoys the storytelling of an earlier age.

## Specifications
- author: Various Authors
- publisher: DotBooks
- language: en
- binding: Perfect Bound
- pages: 431
- format: paperback