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Tanglewood Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Book Overview: 

Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection features some very popular characters like our beloved Jason, Ulysses, King Pluto and Theseus (and of course, our favorite, Mr. Minotaur, too). Written in Hawthorne's interesting and beautiful style, these stories will be a great delight to read AND listen to.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .The king's palace attained to the stupendous magnitude of Periwinkle's baby house, and stood in the center of a spacious square, which could hardly have been covered by our hearth-rug. Their principal temple, or cathedral, was as lofty as yonder bureau, and was looked upon as a wonderfully sublime and magnificent edifice. All these structures were built neither of stone nor wood. They were neatly plastered together by the Pygmy workmen, pretty much like birds' nests, out of straw, feathers, egg shells, and other small bits of stuff, with stiff clay instead of mortar; and when the hot sun had dried them, they were just as snug and comfortable as a Pygmy could desire.

The country round about was conveniently laid out in fields, the largest of which was nearly of the same extent as one of Sweet Fern's flower beds. Here the Pygmies used to plant wheat and other kinds of grain, which, when it grew up and ripened, overshadowed these tiny people as the pines, and the. . . Read More

Community Reviews

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

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 is a fun collection, Hawthorne's second, of Greek myths lightly re-interpreted and retold for children. They're well-known stories with a rather friendlier take. Antaeus has some buddies (his brothers) that are called "pygmies" but which seem to be about six inches tall, for example. But they r

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

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