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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Tanglewood Tales The Story Of Pluto + Proserpina Read By Anthony Quayle MEDIA: LP CONDITION Record VG++ Cover in shrink mint OTHER INFORMATION: Tc 1291 Caedmon Stereo Blue/Green Label Side A Beginning Side B Conclusion Anthony Quayle is a published author and a narrator of children's books. Hawthorne tried his hand at writing after graduating from college, but had to take on a job in the Salem Custom House to make enough money to marry. In 1842, he married Sophia Peabody and moved to Concord, where he became involved in the Transcendentalist Movement. Three years later he returned to Salem where he wrote The Scarlet Letter. He wrote more novels and also wrote children's stories: A Wonder Book (1852) and Tanglewood Tales (1853). Tanglewood Tales: Nathaniel Hawthorne undertook the project of re-writing some of the most famous of the ancient Greek myths in a volume for children called The Tanglewood Tales. In this volume he covers the myths of .. Circe's Palace Dragon's Teeth Jason and the Golden Fleece Theseus and the Minotaur Proserpina, Ceres, Pluto, and the Pomegrante Seeds Antaeus and the Pygmies Contemporary Charles Kingsley, like Hawthorne, directed his retold myths to children. At about the same time, Thomas Bulfinch was also rewriting the ancient Greek myths, but Bulfinch wrote for adults.
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