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A wonder book for girls & boys . By: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walter Crane

A wonder book for girls & boys . By: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walter Crane

Crane, Walter
Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1974252418
ISBN13: 9781974252411
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 4 2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851) is a children's book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he retells several Greek myths. It was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story, the frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified from the original myths. Midas' Daughter Turned to Gold by Walter Crane, illustrating the Midas myth for an 1893 edition A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys covers the myths of The Gorgon's Head - recounts the story of Perseus killing Medusa at the request of the king of the island, Polydectes. The Golden Touch - recounts the story of King Midas and his Golden Touch. The Paradise of Children - recounts the story of Pandora opening the box filled with all of mankind's Troubles. The Three Golden Apples - recounts the story of Heracles procuring the Three Golden Apples from the Hesperides' orchard, with the help of Atlas. The Miraculous Pitcher - recounts the story of Baucis and Philemon providing food and shelter to two strangers who were Zeus and Quicksilver (Hermes) in disguise. Baucis and Philemon were rewarded by the gods for their kindness; they were promised never to live apart from one another. The Chim ra - recounts the story of Bellerophon taming Pegasus and killing the Chim ra.

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