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Genre/Form: | Children's stories Fiction Juvenile works Fantasy literature Juvenile fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Wonder-book and Tanglewood tales. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1923 (OCoLC)575417697 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nathaniel Hawthorne; Gustaf Tenggren; Houghton Mifflin Company.; Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.) |
OCLC Number: | 471273 |
Description: | 421 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | The Gorgon's head -- The golden touch -- The paradise of children -- The three golden apples -- The miraculous pitcher -- The Chimeaera -- The wayside -- The minotaur -- The pygmies -- The dragon's teeth -- Circe's palace -- The pomegranate seeds -- The golden fleece. |
Series Title: | Riverside bookshelf. |
Other Titles: | Tanglewood tales. Wonder book for girls and boys |
Responsibility: | Nathaniel Hawthorne ; illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren. |
Abstract:
Tales told at the fireside and in the woods, adapting such classical myths as Pandora's Box, Baucis and Philemon, and Perseus and Medusa to the storyteller's gothic or romantic environment.
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