Phantom of Percé Rock public domain? [ZigZag Journeys series?]

Marina47 · Post by **Marina47** » October 24th, 2023, 6:51 pm

From high school I recall a story called The Phantom of Percé Rock. Can't find an author so can't determine
if it's public domain. It's not in Librivox files. Anybody know anything?

Post by **Availle** » October 24th, 2023, 7:03 pm

The only thing I can find with this exact title comes with or is a grammar lesson plan:
https://www.onthemarkpress.com/products/pj18418-2020-08-new

And this is most likely not pd.

Wikipedia does give a few hints about an old legend surrounding the stone, but no links to an actual (pd) story.
There is this book with the story in it, but it's from 1968, so not pd either.
https://archive.org/details/magicfiddlerothe0000aubr

InTheDesert · Post by **InTheDesert** » October 25th, 2023, 1:46 am

There's this?

Post by **Availle** » October 25th, 2023, 1:53 am

Great find!

With a publication date of 1884, this version is perfectly pd and would fit into one of our short story collections - the ghost one, maybe?

Post by **annise** » October 25th, 2023, 2:08 am

Might be a good book to read it all - I don't think we have much about Arcadia,....... Anne

Post by **TriciaG** » October 25th, 2023, 5:01 am

The whole series sounds interesting. From Goodreads:

The Zigzag Series sold in the millions and made Butterworth a "literary millionaire". As the story goes, Dana Estes of Estes and Lauriat approached Butterworth with a book written by Rodolphe Topffer -Voyages en Zig-Zag. This book, originally published in 1843, and its companion book Nouveaux Voyages en Zigzag, published posthumously in 1853, chronicled the adventures of Topffer and his students in Europe. Estes asked Butterworth if he could produce something along the same lines. Shortly thereafter, Hezekiah put together the plan. Master Lewis would take a group of Boys on a trip during a school vacation. Seventeen adventures later, Master Lewis and the group had seen most of the world. These stories were not as much travelogue as they were history, fairy tales, and folklore tales. As opposed to Topffer's illustrations, most of the Estes and Lauriat Zigzag pictures were from previously published books and their own files.

There are 3 of them on Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/5730?sort_order=title and more on Archive: https://archive.org/search?query=hezekiah+butterworth+zigzag

I'll move this to Book Suggestions.