A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view. A great freedom of treatment was necessary to his plan; but it will be observed by every one who attempts to render these legends malleable in his intellectual furnace, that they are marvellously independent of all temporary modes and circumstances. They remain essentially the same, after changes that would affect the identity of almost anything else.

He does not, therefore, plead guilty to a sacrilege, in having sometimes shaped anew, as his fancy dictated, the forms that have been hallowed by an antiquity of two or three thousand years. No epoch of time can claim a copyright in these immortal fables. They seem never to have been made; and certainly, so long as man exists, they can never perish; but, by their indestructibility itself, they are legitimate subjects for every age to clothe with its own garniture of manners and sentiment, and to imbue with its own morality. In the present version they may have lost much of their classical aspect (or, at all events, the author has not been careful to preserve it), and have, perhaps, assumed a Gothic or romantic guise.

In performing this pleasant task,—for it has been really a task fit for hot weather, and one of the most agreeable, of a literary kind, which he ever undertook,—the author has not always thought it necessary to write downward, in order to meet the comprehension of children. He has generally suffered the theme to soar, whenever such was its tendency, and when he himself was buoyant enough to follow without an effort. Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple, likewise. It is only the artificial and the complex that bewilder them.

Lenox, July 15, 1851.

Über Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wurde als Spross einer alten puritanischen Familie in Salem, Massachusetts geboren. Sein Vater starb, als er vier Jahre alt war. Nach seinem Studium arbeitete er zunächst als Journalist, später im Zollamt von Boston. Seinen ersten Roman veröffentlichte er 1828. 1841 schloss er sich den Transzendentalisten an, einer Gruppierung um Henry D. Thoreau und Ralph Waldo Emerson, die eine naturverbundene, antimaterialistische Gesllschaftsordnung anstrebte. Er lebte vorübergehend in der sozialutopischen Brook-Farm-Kommune, beendete das Experiment jedoch nach einem halben Jahr. 1853 wurde er amerikanischer Konsul in Liverpool und lebte bis 1860 mit seiner Familie in Europa.


Verlag:

anboco

Veröffentlicht:

2016

Druckseiten:

ca. 344

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


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