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                            Introduction
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'Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls' is an 1853 book by American
author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to 'A Wonder-Book for Girls and
Boys'. It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for
children.


                              Overview
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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.


                           External links
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*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/976 'Tanglewood Tales'], available
at Project Gutenberg.
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*[https://archive.org/details/tanglewoodtales01hawtgoog 'Tanglewood
Tales'], scanned 1853 edition, illustrated, available at Google Books.
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Tanglewood_tales_%281921%29.djvu&page=1
'Tanglewood Tales'], scanned 1921 edition, illustrated by Virginia
Frances Sterrett, available at Wikimedia Commons.
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