In A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys, Nathaniel Hawthorne, a superb storyteller, retells popular Greek myths like The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher and The Chimera.
About the Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, and is known as one of the best fiction writers of America. He was a master of the prose style, especially of allegorical and symbolic tales, and this is clearly reflected in the characters he crafted and the psychological depths he imbued them with.