Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Twice-told Tales
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneTwice-told Tales
Author: Julia Bolton HollowayPublisher: Julia Bolton Holloway
ISBN: 9780820419541
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Twice-Told Tales presents the life and writings of Dante Alighieri's maestro, the Florentine notary and diplomat, Brunetto Latino. The book first discusses archival documents found in Florence, the Vatican Secret Archives, Genoa, England and elsewhere, which were written by or which name Brunetto Latino. The documents concern, among other topics, the Vallombrosan Abbot Tesauro, the Sicilian Vespers' plotting, and the death by starvation of Ugolino. The book then discusses Brunetto's translations of Aristotle's Ethics and Cicero's De inventione, as texts presented to Charles of Anjou and others, as well as the influence of these texts on Dante. Appendices present the archival documents discussed in the book and list manuscripts containing Latino's writings.
Twice-told Tales
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385520886
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Twice-Told Tales
Author: Nethaniel HawthorneTwice-told tales
Author: George Parsons LathropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Twice-Told Tales
Author: Hawthorne N.Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521070516
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. This volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. From the unrepentent Gingerbread Man and his tirades against overprotective parents, meddlesome neighbors, and untrustworthy foxes, to the giant’s wife who simply wants Jack out of the picture so that she and her mate may continue collaborating on poetry, these ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context.
Twice-told tales (1876)
Author: Nathaniel HawthorneSelected Twice-told Tales
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Twice-Told Tales IV
Author: Hawthorne N.Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521076972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. "Twice-Told Tales" is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains “The Shaker Brida”, “The White Old Maid” and other tales.
Twice-Told Tales III
Author: Hawthorne N.Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5521076964
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, a dark romantic, and short story writer. "Twice-Told Tales" is a volume of rearranged myths in which Hawthorne uses unexpected points of view to deftly twist the themes of classic folktales. These ironic tales introduce complex, emotional topics within a familiar context. The volume contains “The Haunted Mind”, “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”, “The Vision of the Fountain” and other tales.