Introductory to the Paradise of Children

A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2)

by Nathaniel HAWTHORNE (1804 - 1864)

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 they remain essentially the same, after changes that would affect the identity of almost anything else. (Lenox - from the Preface (July 15, 1851)

Listen next episodes of A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2):
After the Story of the Chimaera , After the Story of the Miraculous Pitcher , After the Story of the Paradise of Children , After the Story of the Three Golden Apples , Introductory to the Chimaera , Introductory to the Miraculous Pitcher , Introductory to the Three Golden Apples , The Chimaera Part 1 , The Chimaera Part 2 , The Miraculous Pitcher Part 1 , The Miraculous Pitcher Part 2 , The Paradise of Children , The Three Golden Apples Part 1 , The Three Golden Apples Part 2