Project Gutenberg 2010-05-03 Public domain in the USA. 607 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 Crane, Walter 1845 1915 A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys Wonder Book for Girls and Boys Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wonder-Book_for_Girls_and_Boys The Gorgon's head -- The golden touch -- The paradise of children -- The three golden apples -- The miraculous pitcher -- The Chimaera. E-text prepared by David Edwards, Linda Cantoni, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) "A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of children's stories written in the mid-19th century. The book is designed to retell classical myths in a way that is accessible and engaging for children, using imaginative language and creative twists on the original tales. In its opening portion, children gather at Tanglewood for a nutting expedition, where a character named Eustace Bright promises to entertain them with wondrous stories, setting the stage for a series of imaginative adventures. At the start of the book, the scene is set beneath the porch of Tanglewood, where a lively group of children eagerly awaits the sun to dispel the morning mist. They are accompanied by Eustace Bright, a young man known for his storytelling prowess. As the children implore him to share a tale, he decides to tell them the story of "The Gorgon's Head," where the heroic Perseus embarks on a quest to slay the Gorgon Medusa, aided by a magical stranger named Quicksilver. This opening establishes a whimsical tone, hinting at the blend of adventure and moral lessons that will unfold through Hawthorne's adaptation of these timeless myths. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://book.klll.cc/files/32242/32242-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 75.6 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Mythology, Greek Mythology, Greek -- Juvenile literature BL PZ Text Browsing: Children & Young Adult Reading Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Literature Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore 366570 2025-06-13T08:42:41.495936 text/html 366873 2010-05-03T17:51:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 4460245 2010-05-03T17:54:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 4576528 2025-06-13T08:42:47.996924 application/epub+zip 4578815 2025-06-13T08:42:42.922912 application/epub+zip 277573 2025-06-13T08:42:42.163940 application/epub+zip 4676663 2025-06-13T08:42:51.799889 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4646845 2025-06-13T08:42:47.204940 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 356129 2022-09-15T03:41:18.636100 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 323539 2025-06-13T08:42:40.548015 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 323152 2010-05-03T17:45:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 120061 2010-05-03T17:45:39 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 323206 2010-05-03T17:45:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 120052 2010-05-03T17:45:39 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22231 2025-06-13T08:42:52.016878 application/rdf+xml 34356 2025-06-13T08:42:42.274922 image/jpeg 4520 2025-06-13T08:42:42.219933 image/jpeg 4459213 2025-06-13T08:42:41.727960 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia