Nathaniel Hawthorne 
The Miraculous Pitcher (From: ‘A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys’) 

‘The Miraculous Pitcher (From: ‘A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys’)’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of tales in which Hawthorne retells several Greek myths. The volume contains: The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher, and The Chimaera. The stories in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys are all stories within a story. The frame story is that Eunice Bright, a Williams College student, is telling these tales to a group of children at Tanglewood, an area in Lenox, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived for a time.