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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tanglewood Tales

Hardcover (Throne Classics Sept. 29, 2020)

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.




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. It reportedly inspired the name of the thickly wooded Tanglewood Island in the state of Washington.



ISBN
9390312078 / 9789390312078
Pages
186
Weight
13.6 oz.
Dimensions
5.5 x 0.6 in.

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