description: Hawthorne's first Wonder Book was so well received that he was induced to undertake another within eighteen months from the time of finishing the first. To this new volume, made up in the same way of Greek myths retold with a modern, free, half-realistic and half-fanciful tone, he gave the name Tanglewood Tales. The previous series having been ostensibly narrated by one Eustace Bright, among the hills of Berkshire, these additional stories in the like vein were represented as having been brought by Eustace Bright to Hawthorne. -- from George Parsons Lathrop's Introduction Also Circe's Palace ( Circe's Palace), Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto and the Pomegranate Seed ( The Pomegranate Seed), Jason and the Golden Fleece ( The Golden Fleece).
language: English
title: Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fiction, Classics
titlecomplete: Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fiction, Classics
characters: Medusa, King Midas, Sweet Fern, Epimetheus, Primrose, Danae (Children of Evohe), King Polydectes, Pietro Maximoff, Marygold, Buttercup, Heracles, Dandel, Eustace Bright, Clover, Plantain, Periwinkle, Blue Eye, Perseus, Pandora (mythology), Huckleberry
genres: Audiobook, Fiction, Adventure, Childrens, Greek Mythology, Mythology, School, Fantasy, Classics, Short Stories
ratings_count: 1661
publisher: Aegypan