Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneThe Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: General Books
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1888. Excerpt: ... INTRODUCTORY NOTE. GRANDFATHER'S CHAIR. In a letter which Hawthorne addressed to Longfellow at the time of publishing the "Twice-Told Tales," he said, speaking of his life up to that time and his future prospects: -- "I have now, or shall soon have, a sharper spur to exertion, which I lacked at an earlier period; for I see little prospect but that I shall have to scribble for a living. But this troubles me much less than you would suppose. I can turn my pen to all sorts of drudgery, such as children's books, etc." Precisely what the " sharper spur " was can be conjectured only; but it is not unlikely that thoughts of marriage had already entered his mind, for certainly within the term of two years following he had made that matrimonial engagement which was destined to be carried out in a life-long union of great happiness. He had already, in writing " Peter Parley's History" for Goodrich, demonstrated his fitness for supplying youthful minds with simple and entertaining literature. It should seem that, having learned something from his experience with Goodrich, corroborative of Virgil's Sic vos non vobis, he determined to exercise for his own benefit the faculty of writing for children, which he had thus developed, and had shown himself conscious of in the Longfellow letter just quoted. Accordingly, between the time of issuing his collected stories and the date of his Brook Farm episode, he produced a number of brief narratives, the subjects of which were drawn from those old New England annals which some of his tales and other detached papers -- to say nothing of the local coloring in "The Scarlet Letter " -- show him to have conned over so thoroughly. These little stories, connected by dialogue, and by a pleasant fiction concerning an old chair supposed to have figured in the vari...
Tanglewood Tales for Girls and Boys
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
An Armenian folktale about two robbers courting the same girl.
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.
The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneDoctor Grimshawe's Secret
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385324858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Selected Tales and Sketches
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101077808
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
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.