Book
Tanglewood Tales
- Published
- 1851
- Genre
- Children's
- Publisher
- CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Pages
- 384
- Words
- 69741
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35047853-tanglewood-tales?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1260L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 7–10
- Ambleside year
- Year 2 onwards · ages 7–10
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Hawthorne wrote introduction, titled "The Wayside," referring to The Wayside in Concord, where he lived from 1852 until his death. In the introduction, Hawthorne writes about a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to A Wonder-Book, which impelled him to write the Tales. Although Hawthorne informs us in the introduction that these stories were also later retold by Cousin Eustace, the frame stories of A Wonder-Book have been abandoned. Hawthorne wrote the first book while renting a small cottage in the Berkshires, a vacation area for industrialists during the Gilded Age. The owner of the cottage, a railroad baron, renamed the cottage "Tanglewood" in honor of the book written there.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781481933759
- ISBN-10
- 1481933752
Tags
ClassicsGreek Mythology