Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls Nathaniel Hawthorne Author
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2021-04-11 17:22:47
Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls Nathaniel Hawthorne Author
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
2021-04-11 17:22:47
The book includes the myths of:Theseus and the Minotaur (Chapter : The Minotaur)Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: The Pygmies)Dragon's Teeth (Chapter: The Dragon's Teeth)Circe's Palace (Chapter: Circe's Palace)Proserpina, Ceres, P...
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The book includes the myths of:Theseus and the Minotaur (Chapter : The Minotaur)Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: The Pygmies)Dragon's Teeth (Chapter: The Dragon's Teeth)Circe's Palace (Chapter: Circe's Palace)Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegranate Seed (Chapter: The Pomegranate Seed)Jason and the Golden Fleece (Chapter: The Golden Fleece)Hawthorne wrote an introduction, titled The Wayside, referring to The Wayside in Concord, where he lived from 1852 until his death. In the introduction, Hawthorne writes about a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to A Wonder-Book, which impelled him to write the Tales. Although Hawthorne informs us in the introduction that these stories were also later retold by Cousin Eustace, the frame stories of A Wonder-Book have been abandoned.Hawthorne wrote the first book while renting a small cottage in the Berkshires, a vacation area for industrialists during the Gilded Age. The owner of the cottage, a railroad baron, renamed the cottage Tanglewood in honor of the book written there. Later, a nearby mansion was renamed Tanglewood, where outdoor classical concerts were held, which became a Berkshire summer tradition. Ironically, Hawthorne hated living in the Berkshires.The Tanglewood neighborhood of Houston was named after the book. The book was a favorite of Mary Catherine Farrington, the daughter of Tanglewood developer William Farrington. It reportedly inspired the name of the thickly wooded Tanglewood Island in the state of Washington.
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