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A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (The Opie Library of Children's Literature)
de Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0195107187
- ISBN 13
- 9780195107180
- Librería
-
Albany, California, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Oxford University Press, 1996. Book. Illus. by Walter Crane. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Lovely, like new-looking copy in crisp glossy jacket. Printed on thick matte paper with the original Walter Crane illustrations and decorations in color. First Thus. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, CA Library. .
Sinopsis
Hawthorne made it his ambition to be a writer as a teenager, he graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years traveling New England writing short stories before creating The Scarlet Letter. He wrote A Wonder-Book between April and July 1851, freely adapting six legends from Charles Anton's A Classical Dictionary . He set out deliberately to 'modernize' the stories, freeing them from 'cold moonshine' and using a romantic, readable style. This was criticized by adults but proved universally popular with children. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area 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 story of Perseus killing Medusa at the request of the king of the island, Polydectes. The Golden Touch - the story of King Midas and his "Golden Touch". The Paradise of Children - the story of Pandora opening the box filled with all of mankind's Troubles. The Three Golden Apples - the story of Heracles procuring the Three Golden Apples from the Hesperides' orchard, with the help of Atlas. The Miraculous Pitcher - the story of Baucis and Philemon providing food and shelter to two strangers who were Zeus and "Quicksilver" (Hermes) in disguise. Baucis and Philemon were rewarded by the gods for their kindness; they were promised never to live apart from one another. The Chimæra - the story of Bellerophon taming Pegasus and killing the Chimæra.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Eve's Book Garden
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 042715
- Título
- A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (The Opie Library of Children's Literature)
- Autor
- Hawthorne, Nathaniel
- Ilustrador
- Walter Crane
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0195107187
- ISBN 13
- 9780195107180
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Oxford
- Fecha de publicación
- 1996
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Friends of the Albany Library;
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