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The Gorgon's Head

The Gorgon's Head

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 1545118493
ISBN13: 9781545118498
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 3 2017
Pages: 34
Weight: 0.13
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Gorgon's Head by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an 1850s retelling of part of the tale of Perseus of Greek mythology. Perseus was the son of Danae, who was the daughter of a king. And when Perseus was a very little boy, some wicked people put his mother and himself into a chest, and set them afloat upon the sea. The wind blew freshly, and drove the chest away from the shore, and the uneasy billows tossed it up and down; while Danae clasped her child closely to her bosom, and dreaded that some big wave would dash its foamy crest over them both. The chest sailed on, however, and neither sank nor was upset; until, when night was coming, it floated so near an island that it got entangled in a fisherman's nets, and was drawn out high and dry upon the sand. The island was called Seriphus, and it was reigned over by King Polydectes, who happened to be the fisherman's brother.

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