Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

The Paradise of Children

(From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • First published: Date unknown
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Juvenile

"The Paradise of Children" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story published in 1851 as part of A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It retells the ancient Greek myth of Pandora opening her infamous box, which contained all of mankind's troubles. Like the other tales in Hawthorne's collection, this story is framed as being told by a college student named Eustace Bright to a group of children at Tanglewood in Massachusetts, reimagining classical mythology for young readers of his time. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

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 project-gutenberg matched “folklore” and “mythology”. Retained metadata contains “Mythology” in the description, “Tales” in the description, and “Mythology” in the subject metadata.

    • folklore· via Project Gutenberg
    • mythology· via Project Gutenberg
    • Mythology· in description
    • Tales· in description
    • Mythology· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

No ISBN on record, so the Amazon link searches by title and author. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

One edition cataloged here.

(From: "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys")

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.

2005-11-01Project GutenbergEnglishPublic domain (USA)

Subjects

2 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

Project Gutenberg

Cataloged from

Cataloging notes

  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
Catalog id
project-gutenberg:9256
Edition coverage
Project gutenberg electronic edition
Retrieved