Tanglewood Tales
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Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls is an 1853 book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children.
Overview
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.[1]
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.[2] It reportedly inspired the name of the thickly wooded Tanglewood Island in the state of Washington.[3]
References
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External links
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- Tanglewood Tales, available at Project Gutenberg.
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- Tanglewood Tales, scanned 1853 edition, illustrated, available at Google Books.
- Tanglewood Tales, scanned 1921 edition, illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, available at Wikimedia Commons.
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