Classic fairy tales endure from generation to generation. The source of countless adaptations and reimaginings, this collection is remarkable in its scale and diversity. Featuring familiar tales like "Jack and the Beanstalk," "The History of Tom Thumb," and "The Story of the Three Little Pigs," as well as more obscure gems like "The Old Woman and Her Pig" and "Childe Rowland," this anthology is a treasure trove of outstanding children's literature.

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Excerpt from The American Jewish Year Book, 5676: September 9, 1915 to September 27, 1916 This year of course all thoughts are directed to the Euro pean War, which is affecting so disastrously the fate of Israel in Old Poland divided among three of the combating nations, and in Palestine, which has been dragged willy-nilly into the fray. It would therefore have been appropriate to have an account of the European War so far as it affected Jewish interests for the chief subject of the year book for 5676. But it was felt that any account of the Jewish part in this titanic struggle would have been so incomplete and inaccurate that it was finally decided to defer this bum ing topic for a subsequent issue, when, it may be hoped, the war shall have passed into history. One result of the war will undoubtedly be to settle the fate of Palestine for a long time to come, and it seems therefore appropriate to devote the chief article of the present issue of the american jewish year book to an account of the recent progress in Palestine as it has affected the Jewish inhabitants of the Holy Land. It has been written by Miss Henrietta Szold, and gives for the first time in English, at such length, an account of the upbuilding of the Jewish population of Palestine within recent years. Quite apart from its bearing upon future problems, the position of the Jews in the land of their fathers has an intrinsic interest of its own to every Jew, which Miss Szold's article cannot fail to satisfy. 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.