A wonder-book for girls & boys
True stories from history & biography
by Nathaniel Hawthorne & Walter Crane (Illustrator)
- First published:
- 19th century
- Language: English
- Content type: Juvenile
"A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a children's book published in 1851. The collection retells six Greek myths through a frame story: a college student named Eustace Bright shares these tales with children at Tanglewood in Massachusetts. Hawthorne reimagines classic stories including Perseus and Medusa, King Midas, Pandora's Box, and Bellerophon's defeat of the Chimera, transforming ancient mythology into adventures accessible to young readers while adding moral lessons throughout. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Why this book is in the catalog
Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical and project-gutenberg matched “folklore”, “Mythology”, and “mythology”. Retained metadata contains “Mythology” in the description, “Tales” in the description, and “Mythology” in the subject metadata.
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Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.
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Editions
Open Library reports 3 editions; 2 cataloged here.
| Edition | Date | Publisher | Language | ISBN | Access | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
True stories from history & biography Open Library record | 1894 | D. McKay | English | — | No ebook | |
Project Gutenberg electronic edition Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition. | 2010-05-03 | Project Gutenberg | English | — | Public domain (USA) |
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- Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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