A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys
Hawthorne retells Greek myths in a voice shaped for younger readers, making ancient stories easier to enter without stripping away their strange moral tensions
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Hawthorne retells Greek myths in a voice shaped for younger readers, making ancient stories easier to enter without stripping away their strange moral tensions
Hawthorne builds a haunted family history around a house burdened by an old curse, exploring inheritance, guilt, property, social class, and the possibility of moral renewal
Hawthorne builds a symbolic story around shame, secrecy, punishment and identity in a tightly controlled Puritan community
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