A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

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The Midas myth, from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. Illustration by Walter Crane, published 1893.

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852) is a children's book written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in which he rewrites myths from Greek mythology. It was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls.

The stories are all stories within a story, the frame story being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an estate in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time.

A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys covers the myths of

• The Gorgon's Head
• The Golden Touch
• The Paradise of Children
• The Three Golden Apples
• The Miraculous Pitcher
• The Chimæra

External links

• A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys, illustrated by Walter Crane (1893)
• The Gorgon's Head
• The Three Golden Apples
• The Miraculous Pitcher
• The Paradise of Children

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