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Selected Tales and Sketches

  • Selected Tales and Sketches
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Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Extrait Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction The Hollow of the Three Hills Sir William Phips Mrs. Hutchinson The Wives of the Dead My Kinsman, Major Molineux Roger Malvin’s Burial Passages from a Relinquished Work Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe The Haunted Mind Alice Doane’s Appeal The Gray Champion Young Goodman Brown Wakefield The Notch of the White Mountains The Ambitious Guest The May-Pole of Merry Mount The Minister’s Black Veil - A PARABLE Sunday at Home The Man of Adamant - AN APOLOGUE Endicott and the Red Cross Night Sketches Edward Randolph’s Portrait - FROM LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE-HOUSE The Hall of Fantasy The Birth-mark Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent - FROM THE UNPUBLISHED “ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART” The Christmas Banquet - FROM THE UNPUBLISHED “ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART” The Celestial Rail-road Earth’s Holocaust The Artist of the Beautiful Rappaccini’s Daughter - FROM THE WRITINGS OF AUBÉPINE Ethan Brand - A CHAPTER FROM AN ABORTIVE ROMANCE Suggestions for Further Reading HAWTHORNE: SELECTED TALES AND SKETCHES Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where, after his graduation from Bowdoin College in Maine, he wrote the bulk of his masterful tales of American colonial history, many of which were collected in his Twice-told Tales (1837). In 1839 and 1840 Hawthorne worked in the Boston Customs House, then spent most of 1841 at the experimental community of Brook Farm. After his marriage to Sophia Peabody, he settled in the “Old Manse” in Concord; there, between 1842 and 1845, he wrote most of the other tales in this volume, first gathered in a collection entitled Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). His career as a novelist began with The Scarlet Letter (1850), whose famous preface recalls his 1846-1849 service in “The Custom-House” of Salem. The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and The Blithedale Romance (1852) followed in rapid succession. After a third political appointment—this time as American Consul in Liverpool, England, from 1853 to 1857—Hawthorne’s life was marked by the publication of The Marble Faun (1860) but also by a sad inability to complete several more long romances. Ill health, apparently, and possibly some failure of literary faith finally eroded Hawthorne’s striking ability to make imaginative sense of America’s distinctive moral experience. Michael J. Colacurcio is the author of The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne’s Early Tales and of various essays and reviews in the field of American literature. He has also edited and contributed to a volume of New Essays on The Scarlet Letter. He is currently Professor of English and American Studies at UCLA. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Irela Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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Présentation de l'éditeur 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. Extrait Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Introduction The Hollow of the Three Hills Sir William Phips Mrs. Hutchinson The Wives of the Dead My Kinsman, Major Molineux Roger Malvin’s Burial Passages from a Relinquished Work Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe The Haunted Mind Alice Doane’s Appeal The Gray Champion Young Goodman Brown Wakefield The Notch of the White Mountains The Ambitious Guest The May-Pole of Merry Mount The Minister’s Black Veil - A PARABLE Sunday at Home The Man of Adamant - AN APOLOGUE Endicott and the Red Cross Night Sketches Edward Randolph’s Portrait - FROM LEGENDS OF THE PROVINCE-HOUSE The Hall of Fantasy The Birth-mark Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent - FROM THE UNPUBLISHED “ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART” The Christmas Banquet - FROM THE UNPUBLISHED “ALLEGORIES OF THE HEART” The Celestial Rail-road Earth’s Holocaust The Artist of the Beautiful Rappaccini’s Daughter - FROM THE WRITINGS OF AUBÉPINE Ethan Brand - A CHAPTER FROM AN ABORTIVE ROMANCE Suggestions for Further Reading HAWTHORNE: SELECTED TALES AND SKETCHES Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was born in Salem, Massachusetts, where, after his graduation from Bowdoin College in Maine, he wrote the bulk of his masterful tales of American colonial history, many of which were collected in his Twice-told Tales (1837). In 1839 and 1840 Hawthorne worked in the Boston Customs House, then spent most of 1841 at the experimental community of Brook Farm. After his marriage to Sophia Peabody, he settled in the “Old Manse” in Concord; there, between 1842 and 1845, he wrote most of the other tales in this volume, first gathered in a collection entitled Mosses from an Old Manse (1846). His career as a novelist began with The Scarlet Letter (1850), whose famous preface recalls his 1846-1849 service in “The Custom-House” of Salem. The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and The Blithedale Romance (1852) followed in rapid succession. After a third political appointment—this time as American Consul in Liverpool, England, from 1853 to 1857—Hawthorne’s life was marked by the publication of The Marble Faun (1860) but also by a sad inability to complete several more long romances. Ill health, apparently, and possibly some failure of literary faith finally eroded Hawthorne’s striking ability to make imaginative sense of America’s distinctive moral experience. Michael J. Colacurcio is the author of The Province of Piety: Moral History in Hawthorne’s Early Tales and of various essays and reviews in the field of American literature. He has also edited and contributed to a volume of New Essays on The Scarlet Letter. He is currently Professor of English and American Studies at UCLA. PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL, England Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Irela Afficher moinsAfficher plus

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Selected Tales and Sketches.
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Penguin Publishing Group
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Publication
03 mars 1987
Pages
480
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3.3 x 19.3 x 13 cm
Poids
350
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9780140390575
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