Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Excerpt from Standard Supplementary Readers: Book of Tales Being School Readings, Imaginative and Emotional in Prose and Poetry IN the series of Supplementary Readers, the plan of which is given on the opposite page, The Book of Tales is designed to furnish class-reading supplemental to any Third Reader of the regular series. The book is so graded that it may advantageously be begun early in the grammar-school course. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Originally published in hardcover in 2021 by Aladdin.