Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Works
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneThe Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneNathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Milton MeltzerPublisher: Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN: 0761334599
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Learn about the life of the famous American author.
Hawthorne
Author: Henry JamesHawthorne's Works
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneHawthorne
Author: Brenda WineapplePublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307808661
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow. In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls. Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual. Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time. Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.
The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Leland S. PersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462296
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style. Leland S. Person also explains some of the significant cultural and social movements that influenced Hawthorne's most important writings: Puritanism, Transcendentalism and Feminism. The major works, including The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance, as well as Hawthorne's important short stories and non-fiction, are analysed in detail. The book also includes a brief history and survey of Hawthorne scholarship, with special emphasis on recent studies. Students of nineteenth-century American literature will find this a rewarding and engaging introduction to this remarkable writer.
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneTales, Sketches, and Other Papers
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
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Category : Historical fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This compilation offers Hawthorne's tales, sketches and other papers that were not included in any other publication. The first group of short pieces embraced in this volume belongs to Hawthorne s earlier period; excepting " Browne s Folly," which was addressed to the author's cousin, Mr. Richard Manning, of Salem, after the return from Europe. The "Biographical Sketches," that follow next in the order of contents, appear here as the result of a gleaning from old magazines, which was made after Hawthorne s death. Contents: Tales and Sketches Sketches From Memory Fragments From The Journal Of A Solitary Man My Visit to Niagara The Antique Ring The Legend. Graves and Goblins Dr. Bullivant A Book Of Autographs An Old Woman's Tale Time's Portraiture Browne's Folly Biographical Stories Benjamin West Sir Isaac Newton. Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Oliver Cromwell Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin Queen Christina Biographical Studies Mrs. Hutchinson. Sir William Phips. Sir William Pepperell. Thomas Green Fessenden. Jonathan Cilley. Alice Doane's Appeal Chiefly About War Matters The Life of Franklin Pierce
The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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