Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)
For over a century and a half, American children have entered the ancient world through Hawthorne's luminous retellings. Originally crafted to bring classical myths within reach of young readers, A Wonder Book transforms tales of gods, monsters, and magical trials into something that feels less like education and more like pure discovery. Here Perseus slays the Gorgon, Pandora opens her infamous box, and Hercules quests for the golden apples of the Hesperides. Hawthorne wrote with a Victorian parent's double aim: to entertain and to instruct, yet the wonder overwhelmingly wins. These aren't sterile adaptations but living stories that pulse with the same strangeness that made ancient listeners lean closer to the fire. Generations of readers remember this book as the door through which they first stepped into mythology, and its aged prose still holds the power to make a child forget dinner time.
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