Tanglewood Tales

Complete and unabridged, with 38 full-page plates by Albert Bierstadt, John Frederick Kensett and George Inness. Six more Greek myths retold for children in a New England drawing room — Theseus and the Minotaur, Antaeus and the Pygmies, Circe's palace, the dragon's teeth, the golden fleece. Hawthorne wrote them a year after A Wonder Book, keeping the same fictional student narrator and the same re...