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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 well-known Greek myths in a volume for children.
The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eustace Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time. All the tales are modified versions of ancient Greek myths:
Mythology by Edith Hamilton (1942) Myths of the Ancient Greeks by Richard P. Martin (2003) The Penguin Book of Classical Myths by Jenny March (2008) The Gods of the Greeks by Károly Kerényi (1951) The Heroes of the Greeks by Károly Kerényi (1959) A Handbook of Greek Mythology by H. J. Rose (1928) The Complete World of Greek Mythology by ...
A creation myth (or creation story) is a cultural, religious or traditional myth which attempts to describe the earliest beginnings of the present world. Creation myths are the most common form of myth, usually developing first in oral traditions , and are found throughout human culture.
1812-3 [1] Grimm's Fairy Tales: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm: 1823 (English) [3] [17] A Visit From St. Nicholas: Clement Clarke Moore: 1823 [3] Tales of Peter Parley About America: Peter Parley (pseudonym) 1827 [3] Fairy Tales: Hans Christian Andersen: 1846 (English) [3] The Children of the New Forest: Frederick Marryat: 1847: Slovenly Peter ...
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen, pronounced [ˌkɪndɐ ʔʊnt ˈhaʊsmɛːɐ̯çən], commonly abbreviated as KHM), is a German collection of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812.
Books about mythology.Folklorist Alan Dundes defines myth as a sacred narrative that explains how the world and humanity evolved into their present form. Dundes classified a sacred narrative as "a story that serves to define the fundamental worldview of a culture by explaining aspects of the natural world and delineating the psychological and social practices and ideals of a society"
A few notable examples include: Zeus vs. Typhon and Hercules vs. the Lernaean Hydra, both of which are from Greek mythology, Thor vs. Jörmungandr of Norse mythology, Indra vs. Vritra of Indian mythology, Ra vs. Apep of Egyptian mythology, Yahweh vs. Leviathan of Judeo-Christian mythology, and Yu the Great vs. Xiangliu of Chinese mythology ...
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