Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Tales of a Wayside Inn" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a collection of poems published in 1863. Set at a historic Massachusetts tavern, the work depicts a gathering of friends who each tell a story in verse. The characters are based on real people Longfellow knew, including musicians and poets. Longfellow undertook this ambitious project partly to cope with his wife's death, weaving together tales from European legends and American sources, including the famous "Paul Revere's Ride." The collection's popularity led to two additional series in the 1870s. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Title Tales of a Wayside Inn
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_of_a_Wayside_Inn
Note For the complete *Tales of a Wayside Inn*, consisting of all three parts, please see eBook #1365.
Credits Sigal Alon, Lisa Reigel, Michael Zeug, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject American poetry
Category Text
EBook-No. 25153
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Copyright Status Public domain in the USA.
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