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スタンダード・セレクションズのあらすじ

著者：ロバート・I・フルトン、エドウィン・P・トゥルーブラッド、トーマス・C・トゥルーブラッド（編）

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A giant wrestles a bull, a lion refuses its prey, and Patrick Henry demands liberty or death in one volume.

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スタンダード・セレクションズ in short

Standard Selections is a program of voices. It starts with tales and ballads, such as a bull in the Roman arena, a wife in her tomb and a river boat on fire. It moves through lyrics and solemn hymns, then to great orators, then to laughter in dialect, and ends with pages from the stage.

What スタンダード・セレクションズ is about

What do a giant wrestling a wild bull, a lion that refuses its prey, and a Virginian demanding liberty have in common? They share one book. Standard Selections gathers poems, stories, speeches and stage scenes into a single volume meant to be spoken aloud. It reads like a night at an old-time recital, where one performer follows another.

Three teachers of speaking put it together in 1907: Robert I. Fulton, Thomas C. Trueblood and Edwin P. Trueblood. They wanted new pieces beside familiar ones, and models for students who read aloud. Six divisions carry you from the tender and tragic to speeches, laughter and whole scenes from plays.

対象読者. This book suits lovers of poems and speeches made for the voice, teachers and students of public speaking, and families who enjoy a reading hour.

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A speaker's treasury built for the platform
The book is a working tool for people who read aloud. The editors say so in the preface, which lists six aims. They want fresh pieces beside well known ones, selections that can face literary criticism, and passages that train the voice. Every choice is judged by how it sounds in a room.
The contents fall into six classes. They run from narrative and pathetic pieces, through the solemn and the patriotic, to the comic, the dramatic, and scenes from the drama.
The editors also shaped the texts for use. Several stories are adaptations, and scenes from plays are cut to a practical length while the spirit of each play is kept. Short notes before many speeches tell when and where the words were first spoken.
The authors range from Tennyson and Kipling to Dickens, Demosthenes and Lincoln. A reader can move from a deathbed to a joke in one turn of the page. Treat the whole book as a program built for the voice.
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Rome's arena and Pompeii's crowd test faith
The opening piece comes from the novel Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
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Ballads turn private loss into public feeling
The first division is full of narrative poems about love, grief and duty.
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Short lyrics teach an image and a pause
Between the larger stories sit small poems that rely on one picture.
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Solemn poems ask for awe and steady breath
The second division gathers solemn and sublime selections.
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Seven great orators show the ancient art
The third division opens with the seven great orators of the world.
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Six American triumphs set the standard
The editors then pick six moments from American oratory.
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Patriots, reformers and eulogists fill the platform
After the six triumphs comes a crowd of shorter addresses.
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Humor and dialect lighten the evening
The fourth division is built for laughter.
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Scenes from plays bring the stage to the platform
The last two divisions are for drama.
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『スタンダード・セレクションズ』についての質問

What is Standard Selections about?

It is a 1907 collection of poems, stories, speeches and scenes from plays, chosen for reading aloud in classrooms and on the platform. The pieces range from ballads and hymns to great orations, humor and drama.

Who compiled Standard Selections?

Robert I. Fulton, Thomas C. Trueblood and Edwin P. Trueblood, all professors of elocution and oratory, arranged and edited it. Ginn and Company published it in Boston in 1907.

What are the six sections of the book?

They are narrative, descriptive and pathetic pieces, solemn and sublime pieces, patriotic and oratorical pieces, gay and comic pieces, dramatic readings not from plays, and scenes from the drama.

Which famous speeches are in Standard Selections?

Among them are Patrick Henry's call to arms, Lincoln's Gettysburg dedication, Webster's reply to Hayne, Phillips on the murder of Lovejoy, Bryan's Cross of Gold, and addresses by Demosthenes, Cicero, Burke and Chatham.

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Fulton, Robert I., and Edwin P. Trueblood. Standard Selections. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/standard-selections.

Fulton, R. I., & Trueblood, E. P. (2026). Standard selections. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/standard-selections

Fulton, Robert I., and Edwin P. Trueblood. Standard Selections. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/standard-selections.

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  title = {Standard Selections},
  publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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