Tanglewood Tales

King Midas and the golden touch, Pandora's box, Perseus and the Gorgon: six Greek myths told by a student to a group of children. With Walter Crane's illustrations.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

An old armchair passes from hand to hand through two centuries of Massachusetts history, from the Puritans to the Revolution. A grandfather tells its story to his grandchildren, one owner at a time.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Six true stories about the childhoods of Benjamin West, Isaac Newton, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Cromwell, Benjamin Franklin and Queen Christina. A father tells them to his son during a long illness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne