Tanglewood Tales
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Greek mythology in popular culture...a giant who guards the ninth circle of Hell, and lowers Dante and Virgil down to the iced-over Cocytus. One of the stories of the Tanglewood Tales features Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: "The Pygmies"). Antaeus was mentioned in the film... In this article: Elysium, Jason and the Argonauts, Lamia, Circe, Antaeus, Medea, Hercules, 'the Demeter, Mnemosyne, and Odysseus |
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Nathaniel Hawthorne
...as President, Hawthorne was rewarded in 1853 with the position of United States consul in Liverpool shortly after the publication of Tanglewood Tales. The role, considered the most lucrative foreign service position at the time, was...
In this article: Hawthorne, Sophia Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Franklin Pierce, The Scarlet Letter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jonathan Cilley, Concord, and Bowdoin College
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Wikipedia | October 24, 2009
Europa (mythology)
...Europa steadies herself by touching one of the bull's horns, acquiescing. Her tale is also mentioned in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Tanglewood Tales for boys and girls". Though his story titled "Dragon's teeth" is largely about Cadmus, it...
In this article: Europa, Zeus, Crete, Astarte, Cadmus, Asterion, Agenor, Herodotus, and History
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Wikipedia | October 21, 2009
Maxfield Parrish
...(1909). Books illustrated by Parrish, in addition to those that include reproductions of Parrish's work - including A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales (including 10 color plates) (1910), The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics (including...
In this article: Maxfield Parrish, Daybreak, Enya, The Memory of Trees, Categorization, Bloom County, and Caribbean Blue
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Wikipedia | October 19, 2009
Consulate of the United States in Liverpool
...notable consuls was the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, appointed by President Franklin Pierce in 1853, shortly after the publication of Tanglewood Tales.. The position was considered the most lucrative foreign service position at the time, and...
In this article: Liverpool, United States, Bald Eagle, Grosvenor Group, Nathaniel Hawthorne, World War II, Foreign Service, and Joseph McCarthy
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Wikipedia | October 02, 2009
Salomon van Abbe
...by Dorothy L. Sayers published by T. Fisher Unwin. In the 1950s he illustrated children's books for Dent including Treasure Island, Tanglewood Tales, Little Women and Good Wives. Salomon van Abbe married Hannah Wolff (b 1892) on 3 August...
In this article: Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Society, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Nicolson, John Murray, and Ward Lock & Co
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Wikipedia | September 24, 2009
Tanglewood
...William Ticknor, rented a small cottage in the area in March 1850 from William Aspinwall Tappan. While at the cottage Hawthorne wrote Tanglewood Tales (1853), a re-writing of a number of Greek myths for boys and girls. In memory of the book,...
In this article: Tanglewood, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Tanglewood Music Festival, Empire State Youth Orchestra, and World War II
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Wikipedia | September 23, 2009
Edmund Dulac
...book became a rarity and Dulac's career in this field was over. His last such books were Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book (1916), the Tanglewood Tales (1918) (including 14 colour images) and the exquisite The Kingdom of the Pearl (1920). His...
In this article: Edmund Dulac, Hodder & Stoughton, Ecole des Beaux Arts, World War II, Bank of Poland, London, Toulouse, France, and Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Wikipedia | July 26, 2009
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
It is a re-writing of some of the most famous of the ancient Greek myths in a volume for children. It was followed by a sequel, Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls. The stories are all stories within a story , the frame story being...
In this article: A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Midas, Tanglewood, Walter Crane, and Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Wikipedia | June 20, 2009
Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of some of the most famous of the ancient Greek myths in a volume for children.
In this article: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood, Proserpina, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Concord, and Massachusetts
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boston.com - Top arts and entertainment stories | August 09, 2008
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...abolitionist-merchant Lewis Tappan, founder of what is today Dun & Bradstreet); the name was borrowed from Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose 1853 "Tanglewood Tales" was written during a stay on the property. Tappan's home on the estate was an early...
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Tanglewood Tales for Boys and Girls (1853) is a book by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, a sequel to A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys. It is a re-writing of some of the most famous of the ancient Greek myths in a volume for children.
The book covers the myths of:
* Theseus and the Minotaur (Chapter : "The Minotaur")
* Antaeus and the Pygmies (Chapter: "The Pygmies")
* Dragon's Teeth (Chapter: "The Dragon's Teeth")
* Circe's Palace (Chapter: "Circe's Palace")
* Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegranate Seed (Chapter: "The Pomegranate Seed")
* Jason and the Golden Fleece (Chapter: "The Golden Fleece")
In addition there is an opening introduction, titled "The Wayside", in reference to The Wayside in Concord, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived from 1852 until his death and presumably where he was when he wrote the introduction. Hawthorne recounts a visit from his young friend Eustace Bright, who requested a sequel to Wonder Book, thus explaining the origin of 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 book while renting a small cottage in the Berkshires, a sort of inland Newport, Rhode Island for the wealthy industrialists of 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 and hosted concerts which continue to this day.
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