Longfellow Fairy Tales (English-Chinese Bilingual)

Author: (American) Longfellow
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Longfellow lived, is a picturesque town where the poet wrote many famous poems. The blacksmith and the village covered with chestnut trees he described are all in Cambridge. When the town expanded, the blacksmith shop moved, and the chestnut trees were cut down. The children at Cambridge schools donated money to buy this famous tree and made it into a chair to give to the poet. Longfellow was very interested in Native American culture. In Song of Hiawatha, he interwove many ancient legends of North American Native Americans. Hiawatha is a legendary figure with different names in different tribes. It is said that he was sent by the gods to clear the rivers, clean the forests, and bring peace to the Native Americans.