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  • Tales, "published in 1852; and" Tanglewood Tales, "published in 1853, all juveniles.

    Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made James Dabney McCabe 1862

  • Not long afterward were published the _Tanglewood Tales_, which continue the _Wonder Book_ series; and a biography of his intimate friend, Franklin Pierce.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • The Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales, with their exquisite versions of Greek myths quaintly medievalized and gently Puritanized by a passage through Hawthorne’s imagination, in becoming unchallenged classics for all children have perpetuated the grace of his attitude toward his own and continue to exhale the light and sweetness which Hawthorne seems to have distilled into them in the sunny intervals between his profounder studies of these same years.

    Chapter 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1921

  • Other and better works belonging to the same juvenile class are _A Wonder Book_ (1851) and _Tanglewood Tales_ (1853), which are modern versions of the classic myths and stories that Greek mothers used to tell their children long ago.

    Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

  • In the case of Hawthorne's _Wonder-Book_ and _Tanglewood Tales_, numerous questions and suggestions need likewise to be interjected.

    How to Study and Teaching How to Study 1899

  • Hawthorne, in his _Wonder-Book_ and _Tanglewood Tales_, has told, in a manner familiar to multitudes of American children and to many more who once were children, a dozen of the old Greek folk stories.

    Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Josephine Preston Peabody 1898

  • The group contained in the collection which follows will help to fill out the list; it is designed to serve as a complement to the _Wonder-Book_ and _Tanglewood Tales_, so that the references to the stories in those collections are brief and allusive only.

    Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew Josephine Preston Peabody 1898

  • They also served the important use of suggesting to my father his Wonder-Book and Tanglewood Tales stories, and, together with the figures of Gothic fairy-lore, they were the only playmates, with the exception of our father and mother, that we had or desired.

    Hawthorne and His Circle Julian Hawthorne 1890

  • _The Tanglewood Tales_, it looks like a group of real Tanagra figurines placed beside a painted plaster cast.

    Studies in Early Victorian Literature Frederic Harrison 1877

  • Boys and Girls, "and" Tanglewood Tales, "besides the story of" The Snow

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

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