Works (Tanglewood Tales / Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys)

First published:
19th century
Languages: English, Spanish
Content type: FictionJuvenile

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Description

Tales told at the fireside and in the woods, adapting such classical myths as Pandora's Box, Baucis and Philemon, and Perseus and Medusa to the storyteller's gothic or romantic environment.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations and Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

Legendary beings and transformations
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.
- “Fairies”· via Open Library
Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends
Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Fairy tales”, “Mythology”, and “Tales”. Retained metadata contains “Tales” in the title, “Tales” in the description, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).
- “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
- “Mythology”· via Open Library
- “Tales”· via Open Library
- “Tales”· in title
- “Tales”· in description
- “Fairy tales”· 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.

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