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- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1981171169
- ISBN-13: 9781981171163
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1981171169
- ISBN-13: 9781981171163
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.2 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
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