A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a children's book published in 1851. The collection retells six Greek myths through a frame story: a college student named Eustace Bright shares these tales with children at Tanglewood in Massachusetts. Hawthorne reimagines classic stories including Perseus and Medusa, King Midas, Pandora's Box, and Bellerophon's defeat of the Chimera, transforming ancient mythology into adventures accessible to young readers while adding moral
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| Author | Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864 |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 |
| Title | A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys |
| Alternate Title | Wonder Book for Girls and Boys |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wonder-Book_for_Girls_and_Boys |
| Contents | The Gorgon's head -- The golden touch -- The paradise of children -- The three golden apples -- The miraculous pitcher -- The Chimaera. |
| Credits | E-text prepared by David Edwards, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (www.archive.org) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 75.6 (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. | 32242 |
| Release Date | May 3, 2010 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 948 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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