Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales PDF

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: W. W. Norton

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780393935646

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Included here are the prefaces Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime, along with selections from his 'American Notebooks' and relevant letters.

Selected Tales and Sketches

Selected Tales and Sketches PDF

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1987-03-03

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1101077808

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The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.

Hawthorne's Short Stories

Hawthorne's Short Stories PDF

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 0307741214

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Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown," in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; “Rappaccini's Daughter," about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and "The Birthmark," in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tales PDF

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Publisher: Arkose Press

Published: 2015-11-08

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9781346314648

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