A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a children's book published in 1851. A college student named Eustace Bright gathers children at Tanglewood in Massachusetts to retell ancient Greek myths in his own way. From Perseus and Medusa to King Midas's golden touch, from Pandora's fateful box to Bellerophon's battle with the Chimera, these classic tales are reimagined for young readers. Hawthorne strips away what
he called the "cold moonshine" of classical mythology, transforming timeless legends into stories children of his era could embrace. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Parrish, Maxfield, 1870-1966 |
| Title | A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wonder-Book_for_Girls_and_Boys |
| Contents | A Wonder Book: The Gorgon's head. The golden touch. The paradise of children. The three golden apples. The miraculous pitcher. The Chimaera -- Tanglewood Tales: The wayside. The Minotaur. The Pygmies. The dragon's teeth. Circe's palace. The pomegranate seeds. The Golden Fleece. |
| Credits |
Produced by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 73.7 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Mythology, Greek |
| Subject | Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile literature |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 35377 |
| Release Date | Feb 23, 2011 |
| Last Update | Jan 7, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 1035 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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