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A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: younger cousins of the student and their friends of varying ages. The student, as much to amuse himself as to amuse the children, organises games and activities and tells stories. And the stories he tells are wild and fantastic. When his store of fairy tales and folk legends is exhausted he hits on the idea of retelling Greek Myths in his own style.
A Yankee student stays at a country house called Tanglewood during a golden New England fall. Also at the house are about a dozen children: younger cousins of the student and their friends of varying ages. The student, as much to amuse himself as to amuse the children, organises games and activities and tells stories. And the stories he tells are wild and fantastic. When his store of fairy tales and folk legends is exhausted he hits on the idea of retelling Greek Myths in his own style.
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"Take it, one of you," cried she, "and quit this foolish quarreling. For my part, I shall be glad of a little thick darkness. Take it quickly, however, or I must clap it into my own head again!"
Accordingly, both Nightmare and Shakejoint put out their hands, groping eagerly to snatch the eye out of the hand of Scarecrow. But, being both alike blind, they could not easily find where Scarecrow's hand was; and Scarecrow, being now just as much in the dark as Shakejoint and Nightmare, could not at once meet either of their hands, in order to put the eye into it. Thus (as you will see, with half an eye, my wise little auditors), these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity. For, though the eye shone and glistened like a star, as Scarecrow held it out, yet the Gray Women caught not th. . . Read More
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The actual myths are pretty good. But there also plenty of way better versions with way better writing to choose from. I know I have had a lot of beef with Nathaniel Hawthorne in the past, but you seriously have got to respect and admire the purely unfounded and enthusiastic confidence he had in his
I’m not certain of Hawthorne’s target audience but I have to assume, after reading this, that it was medieval cosplayers between the ages of seven and seventeen. This has a Shakespearean verbiage that may have been in vogue in 1853, but now reads as pretentious and wordy. Still, there were a few mom
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i enjoyed the greek mythology in this one, and there were stories i liked and stories that were just ok but overall a good read
I love reading Greek Myths. They are tales of flawed heroes, gargantuan monsters, and what happens when mankind tries to create their own gods.
Tanglewood tales took all that away.
Instead there were perfect heroes, easily defeating enemies and no mentions of the gods. As Christians, the purpose of Gr
This was fun!
I had no idea that Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote children's books, but he did a pretty good job of this one.
Of all the retellings in this book, The Minotaur was probably my favorite. Theseus was such a fun hero, and all the odd little twists and turns made for a fun story.
Even though all
I listened to these Greek myths as told by Nathaniel Hawthorne over a weekend. My kids listened to some of these as well and really enjoyed the ones that they heard. I'm sure they'll request that we download these again the next time we have a long car ride as we all enjoyed listening. The stories a