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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines, by Clayton Edwards, Illustrated by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. Author: Clayton Edwards Release Date: May 30, 2008 [eBook #25652] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES*** E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25652-h.htm or 25652-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/5/6/5/25652/25652-h/25652-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/5/6/5/25652/25652-h.zip) A TREASURY OF HEROES AND HEROINES A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by CLAYTON EDWARDS Author of "The Story of Evangeline" Illustrated in Colour by Florence Choate and Elizabeth Curtis [Illustration: JEANNE D'ARC DREW THE ARROW FROM HER BREAST WITH THE COURAGE OF A VETERAN--_See page 100_] Cupples and Leon Company New York Copyright, 1920, by Frederick A. Stokes Company All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced without the written permission of the publishers Printed in the United States of America PREFACE It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couples--for this is a book of contrasts and has been written as such. Lives of the most dramatic and adventurous quality have been gathered from all corners of the earth, and from every age in history, in such a way that they may cover the widest possible variety of human experience. The publishers believe that such a book would not be complete without some characters that are no less real because they have lived only in the minds of men. No explanation is needed for semi-historical characters like King
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