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A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New/No Dust Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1857159306
- ISBN 13
- 9781857159301
- Seller
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Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
everyman's library Children's classic, c1994. Hardback. New/No Dust Jacket. pretty book vacuum sealed since new
Synopsis
Hawthorne made it his ambition to be a writer as a teenager, he graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where poet Longfellow was also a student, and spent several years traveling New England writing short stories before creating The Scarlet Letter. He wrote A Wonder-Book between April and July 1851, freely adapting six legends from Charles Anton's A Classical Dictionary . He set out deliberately to 'modernize' the stories, freeing them from 'cold moonshine' and using a romantic, readable style. This was criticized by adults but proved universally popular with children. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame being that a Williams College student, Eustace Bright, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys covers the myths of: The Gorgon's Head - the story of Perseus killing Medusa at the request of the king of the island, Polydectes. The Golden Touch - the story of King Midas and his "Golden Touch". The Paradise of Children - the story of Pandora opening the box filled with all of mankind's Troubles. The Three Golden Apples - the story of Heracles procuring the Three Golden Apples from the Hesperides' orchard, with the help of Atlas. The Miraculous Pitcher - the story of Baucis and Philemon providing food and shelter to two strangers who were Zeus and "Quicksilver" (Hermes) in disguise. Baucis and Philemon were rewarded by the gods for their kindness; they were promised never to live apart from one another. The Chimæra - the story of Bellerophon taming Pegasus and killing the Chimæra.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Border Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7777
- Title
- A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys
- Author
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1857159306
- ISBN 13
- 9781857159301
- Publisher
- everyman's library Children's classic
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- c1994
- Keywords
- Non Fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's; non-fiction;
Terms of Sale
Border Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged. With this in mind I will send photos of the item to all overseas purchasers and won't dispatch until I have confirmation that you have seen it and okayed it, please ask for photographs of the item if you are not sure in UK. Return costs are expensive esp overseas and bookshops don't make money as it is. I don't have any control over when international orders will arrive. I use royal mail and only charge the actual costs. They quote 2-12 weeks time for economy post which is the closest in cost to biblio postage costs which are almost never enough to cover the actual costs. UK domestic postage is about right, i still loose if it's large and i have to take it into the post office where they charge 30p more for the same stamp i can buy online as there seems to be a conspiracy to force everything online and close down post offices and small businesses.
About the Seller
Border Books
Biblio member since 2020
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire
About Border Books
Bookshop in West Yorkshire selling second hand, antiquarian and new. We have a bit of everything and plenty of school stories and annuals. This is tiny fraction of what we have physically. We are adding listings all the time. Please ask for photos if needed if you are unsure of condition.
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