William Elliot Griffis Books

Charles Carleton Coffin

  [english | 1898]  

William Elliot Griffis

Summary: [William Elliot Griffis (September 17 1843 ? February 5 1928) was an American orientalist Congregational minister lecturer and prolific author. Griffis was born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania the son of a sea captain and later a coal trader. During the Civil War he served three months in the 44th Pennsylvania Volunteers regiment after Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania in 1863. After the war he ...]
Genres: [biography] Downloads: 439

Dutch Fairy Tales For Young Folks

  [english | 1918]  

William Elliot Griffis

Excerpts: [... the idea that a creature in petticoats could ever look lovelier than one in shining scales. Besides, said she, think of their big noses, and I'm ...... all through, his mother would laugh and call him her Buttercup. But always Klaas wanted more cheese. When unusually greedy, she twitted him as a boy ...... together. Now that the boy-prince was grown to be a man and had long been ...]
Genres: [fantasy | young readers] Downloads: 399

Japanese Fairy World

  [english | 1887]  

William Elliot Griffis

Excerpts: [... The boys plucked bamboo stalks, and strung on their branches bright-colored ribbons, tinkling bells, and long streamers of paper, on which poetry was ...... and stretching upon their toes, body to body, and neck to neck, propped each other up, rolled their goggles and looked steadily, as they supposed, ...... pet he kept a tiny sparrow, and fed it with great care. The old dame not ...]
Genres: [myth | short story collection] Downloads: 115