A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys - Softcover

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1537628941 ISBN 13: 9781537628943

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

In A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys Nathaniel Hawthorne retells the Greek myths of Perseus and the Gorgons, Midas and the Golden Touch, Pandora ('The Paradise of Children'), Hercules and The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher and Bellerephon versus the Chimaera.

About this title

About the Author:

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on 4th July 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts. One of his descendants was John Hathorne who presided over the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Hawthorne's father died when he was four years old. He was educated at Bowdoin College where he became friends with the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He published his first novel, Fanshawe in 1828 and after this his stories began to appear in periodicals. He in 1842 and he and his wife Sophia went on to have three children. He published his most famous work, The Scarlet Letter, in 1850, and in that same year he became friends with the novelist Herman Melville. Melville later dedicated Moby Dick to Hawthorne. Between 1853 and 1860 he lived in Liverpool in England while he was working as an American consul, and then in Italy, before returning to his home in Concord, Massachusetts. Nathaniel Hawthorne died on 19th May 1864.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1537628941
• ISBN 13: 9781537628943
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122