A WONDER-BOOK FOR GIRLS AND BOYS

By Nathaniel Hawthorne


THE GORGON'S HEAD




CONTENTS:

TANGLEWOOD PORCH--Introductory to "The Gorgon's Head"
THE GORGON'S HEAD
TANGLEWOOD PORCH--After the Story



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