Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I have sometimes produced a singular and not unpleasing effect, so far as my own mind was concerned, by imagining a train of incidents in which the spirit and mechanism of the faëry legend should be combined with the characters and manners of familiar life. In the little tale which follows a subdued tinge of the wild and wonderful is thrown over a sketch of New England personages and scenery, yet, it is hoped, without entirely obliterating the sober...
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The author tells us of the time when he was a boy of fifteen, and how once, upon an autumn day, a "Vision” of the same beautiful girl appeared to him twice: first in the morning, her face reflected in “a crystal spring” in a wood (where he takes her for a naiad) and later upon a hill near sunset enveloped in a rainbow “vivid as Niagara’s” (where he takes her for an “emblem of Hope”). Three months go by when he does not see her, and...
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The portrait of a faded, melancholy man who sells gingerbread and apples at the local train station. Hawthorne describes him in terms of negatives, of dim browns and faint shades of gray Even his melancholy is subdued, for he is unfortunate, but not that unfortunate.
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First published in The New England Magazine in 1835, this is really more a vignette that a short story. Its narrator is the Town Pump of the title, who tells the reader its history, from its infancy as a clear stream refreshing Native Americans, through its misspent youth as a degenerate mud puddle, to its rescue by the digging of a well and its later ascendance to to its present pumpified state.
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This extraordinary fragment, left incomplete at the author's death, hints at the direction Hawthorne's genius may have taken had he lived. Ironically, the subject is the search-through science rather than magic-for an "elixir of life." Poignantly, the unfinished manuscript lay upon Hawthorne's coffin during the author's funeral services.
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Richard Digby, who believes his philosophy on life is the correct one, refuses to share his ideas with anyone else. His heart ails from accretions of calculous. He leaves his home, deciding to become a hermit. In the wilderness he discovers a cave and decides to make it his new home, a place where he can meditate. Water dripping from the roof, over time, has created forms of adamant within the cave. Digby decides not to drink from a nearby fountain;...
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Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press
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2012
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English
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Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, The Scarlet Letter is a romantic work of fiction about Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an adulterous affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
《红字》以17世纪清教殖民统治下的新英格兰为背景，讲述海丝特·白兰的恋爱悲剧。女主人公嫁给了医生奇灵渥斯，他们之间却没有爱情。在孤独中白兰与牧师丁梅斯代尔相恋并生下女儿珠儿。白兰被当众惩罚，戴上标志"通奸"的红色A字示众。然而白兰坚贞不屈，拒不说出孩子的父亲。作品揭露社会的残酷、宗教的欺骗和道德的虚伪等主题。
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e-artnow
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2017
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Come along on this beautiful adventure called life and celebrate its various hues and colors. In this meticulously prepared collection, we have brought to you the most beloved Thanksgiving classics: Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen (O. Henry) The Purple Dress (O. Henry) Three Thanksgivings (Charlotte Perkins Gilman) An English Dinner of Thanksgiving (George Eliot) An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Louisa May Alcott) Aunt Susanna's Thanksgiving Dinner (Lucy...
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2023
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Una pequeña apertura a la fascinante obra de uno de los autores americanos más importantes del siglo XIX.
Una selección de los mejores relatos del autor de La letra escarlata.
Escasos son los escritores que gozan del reconocimiento en vida y, menos aún, los que, además, consiguen renovar la voz literaria de su país. Este es el caso de Nathaniel Hawthorne (Salem, Massachusetts, 1804 - Plymouth, New Hampshire, 1864) cuya obra se inserta dentro...
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An unnamed narrator tells the story. He was not present during the events of the story, but his grandmother was present as a little girl. She tells the story often. The story concerns a wedding that took place in a church in New York City. The bride and groom were both in their mid-sixties. The groom, Mr. Ellenwood, had been a scholar his whole life. However, his scholarly work had always been aimless. Many believed that his eccentricity was caused...
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La letra escarlata refleja la historia moral de la Nueva Inglaterra: el amor puritano por la religión, en pugna con la religión pagana del amor. Más no sólo es una imagen de Nueva Inglaterra, sino del mismo Hawthorne. Hay un jirón de Hawthorne en cada uno de los personajes de este libro: en la severidad de los jueces que castigan el quebrantamiento del código moral; en la conciencia vengadora; en la irresolución de quien esconde la llama
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Colonial history comes to life in this 1850 gathering of sketches for young people, unified by a chair passed down through the generations. Includes "The Quakers and the Indians," "The Salem Witches," "Cotton Mather," "The Stamp Act," "The Boston Massacre," "The Tea-Party and Lexington," "The Tory's Farewell," and "The War for Independence."
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When two men are gravely injured during the Battle of Pequawket in 1725, one makes a choice that will haunt him for the remainder of his days. Although Reuben and Roger take shelter against a tombstone-shaped rock together, Reuben survives only by leaving his friend to die. Years later, Reuben takes his grown son hunting and is forced to confront his guilt about not keeping his promise to a dying man. "Roger Malvin's Burial" was adapted into a short...
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In a small Puritan community, Hester has a baby, but her husband has been away for years. She is forced to wear a bright red "A" sewn onto on her dress, broadcasting her disgrace as an Adulteress. When her jealous and deranged husband returns, he becomes obsessed with finding the truth, no matter what it takes. Lives hang in the balance as the secret shared by Hester and her lover threatens to consume them all. A gothic novel of romance, revenge,...
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Published in 1852, this collection of short stories was the last to appear from the author in his lifetime. It includes a number of notable stories, among them "Ethan Brand," in which a man discovers "the unpardonable sin," "The Man of Adamant," in which a hermit undergoes a horrifying transformation, and "My Kinsman, Major Molineaux," a dark depiction of America at the time of the Revolution.
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Hawthorne struggled in vain to complete this fragment of a romance for more than twenty years. Based on an old English legend of a bloody footprint, it illuminates many of the themes Hawthorne touched on in his greatest works, as well as his methods of composition. It was published posthumously in 1883.
