Tanglewood Tales: More Myths Told at the Wayside
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Six more Greek myths retold for children in a New England drawing room — Theseus and the Minotaur, Antaeus and the Pygmies, Circe's palace, the dragon's teeth, the golden fleece. Hawthorne wrote them a year after A Wonder Book, keeping the same fictional student narrator and the same refusal to make the gods dignified. The Circe chapter is the strongest and the least suitable, which is why children remember it. Thirty-eight paintings from the century after Hawthorne, ranging from Bierstadt and Bradford's Arctic and Western scenes to New England summers and family gardens, supply a matching American landscape for each myth.
Six more Greek myths retold for children in a New England drawing room — Theseus and the Minotaur, Antaeus and the Pygmies, Circe's palace, the dragon's teeth, the golden fleece. Hawthorne wrote them a year after A Wonder Book, keeping the same fictional student narrator and the same refusal to m...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American writer born in Salem, Massachusetts, descended from a judge at the witch trials. He worked at the Boston Custom House, lived briefly at the Brook Farm commune, and served as United States consul at Liverpool. His works include The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, Twice-Told Tales, and the American Notebooks.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American writer born in Salem, Massachusetts, descended from a judge at the witch trials. He worked at the Boston Custom House, lived briefly at the Brook Farm commune, and served as United States consul at Liverpool. His works include The Scarlet Letter, Th...
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