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Tanglewood Tales

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Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls is an 1853 book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of well-known Greek myths in a volume for children.

Overview

The book includes the myths of:

Hawthorne wrote an introduction, titled "The Wayside", referring to The Wayside in Concord, where he lived from 1852 until his death. In the introduction, Hawthorne writes about a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to A Wonder-Book, which impelled him to write the Tales. Although Hawthorne informs us in the introduction that these stories were also later retold by Cousin Eustace, the frame stories of A Wonder-Book have been abandoned.

Hawthorne wrote the first book while renting a small cottage in the Berkshires, a vacation area for industrialists during the Gilded Age. The owner of the cottage, a railroad baron, renamed the cottage "Tanglewood" in honor of the book written there. Later, a nearby mansion was renamed Tanglewood, where outdoor classical concerts were held, which became a Berkshire summer tradition. Ironically, Hawthorne hated living in the Berkshires.{{cite book | title = Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny By Papa | url = https://archive.org/details/twentydayswithj000hawt | url-access = registration | last1 = Hawthorne | first1 = Nathaniel | contribution = introduction | contributor1-last = Auster | contributor1-first = Paul | contributor1-link = Paul Auster | page = xxi | quote = For a man who hated the area and ran away from it after just eighteen months, he left his mark on it forever. | publisher = New York Review Books | year = 2003 | isbn = 9781590170427 }}

The Tanglewood neighborhood of Houston was named after the book. The book was a favorite of Mary Catherine Farrington, the daughter of Tanglewood developer William Farrington.Smith, Brenda Beust. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1986_227212 Just who was...Westheimer/A guide to the people whose names grace the street signs of Houston]." Houston Chronicle. Sunday March 23, 1986. Lifestyle 1. Retrieved on October 14, 2012. It reportedly inspired the name of the thickly wooded Tanglewood Island in the state of Washington.{{cite news |url=http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gazpublic/GAZVECTOR.feat_folder?p_file=1168151 |title=Tanglewood Island: A Real Fairy Land |newspaper=The Tacoma Tribune |date=October 19, 1913 |first=Bernice E. |last=Newell |format=PDF}}

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External links

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  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/976 Tanglewood Tales], available at Project Gutenberg.
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  • [https://archive.org/details/tanglewoodtales01hawtgoog Tanglewood Tales], scanned 1853 edition, illustrated, available at Google Books.
  • [http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Tanglewood_tales_%281921%29.djvu&page=1 Tanglewood Tales], scanned 1921 edition, illustrated by Virginia Frances Sterrett, available at Wikimedia Commons.
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Category:1853 short story collections

Category:1850s children's books

Category:American children's books

Category:Children's short story collections

Category:Short story collections by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Category:Children's books based on classical mythology

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