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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of the Author Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 1 Under the Spell of Hawthorne 6 2 The Formative Years (1804–1825) 14 3 Fanshawe: A Tale (1828) 25 4 The Dark Years (1825–1837) 35 5 A Voice Refined (1837–1842) 51 6 The Middle Years (1842–1849) 63 7 Nathaniel and Sophia (1837–1860) 80 8 The Scarlet Letter (1850) 91 9 Hawthorne and Melville (1850–1860) 106 10 The House of the Seven Gables (1851) 118 11 The Blithedale Romance (1852) 131 12 The Marble Faun (1853–1860) 144 13 The Final Years (1860–1864) 163 Conclusion 183 References 189 Index 197
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Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne''Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss''Fiercely romantic and hugely influential, The Scarlet Letter is the tale of Hester Prynne, imprisoned, publicly shamed, and forced to wear a scarlet ''A'' for committing adultery and bearing an illegitimate child, Pearl. In their small, Puritan village, Hester and her daughter struggle to survive, but in this searing study of the tension between private and public existence, Hester Prynne''s inner strength and quiet dignity means she has frequently been seen as one of the first great heroines of American fiction.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Graphic Arts Books The Scarlet Letter
Book Synopsis“A perfect work of the American imagination.”-D.H Lawrence “The Scarlet Letter is so terrible in its pictures of diseased human nature as to produce most questionable delights. The reader’s interest never flags for a moment…Hawthorne, when you have studied him, will be very precious to you. He will have plunged you into melancholy, he will have overshadowed you with black forebodings, he will almost have crushed you with imaginary sorrows; but he will have enabled you to feel yourself an inch taller during the process.”-Anthony Trollope Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is a razor-sharp novel set in a seventeen-century puritan community. The book examines the contradictions of good and evil, what is apparent and what is hidden, and the power of redemption. After Hester Prynne, the protagonist of The Scarlet Letter, has a child out of wedlock, she is branded with the scarlet letter “A” on her dress. Shunned in her community as she refused to identify the father of her child, Hester lives with in a small cottage with her daughter, Pearl. Roger Chillingworth, an elderly physician, joins the community, and unbeknownst to all except for Hester, he is her long-departed husband, who was presumed to be dead. In his absence, Hester had an affair and subsequently gave birth to a child. Covertly aiming for revenge on the father of the child, Chillingworth descends on Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, the young minister who he suspects in the illicit affair. Within the remarkable character of Hester, Hawthorne examines female independence and the complexities of sin. With a surprising emotional pitch and powerful insights into the human condition, this is one of America’s greatest novels. With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Scarlet Letter is both modern and readable.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Scarlet Letter
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Facts On File Inc The Scarlet Letter
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Random House USA Inc The Scarlet Letter
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Random House USA Inc The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisIntroduction by Kathryn Harrison Commentary by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. D. Howells, and Carl Van Doren A stark tale of adultery, guilt, and social repression in Puritan New England, The Scarlet Letter is a foundational work of American literature. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s exploration of the dichotomy between the public and private self, internal passion and external convention, gives us the unforgettable Hester Prynne, who discovers strength in the face of ostracism and emerges as a heroine ahead of her time. As Kathryn Harrison points out in her Introduction, Hester is “the herald of the modern heroine.” Includes a Modern Library Reading Group Guide
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12th Media Services The Scarlet Letter
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Union Square & Co. The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisIt is the mid-seventeenth century in Boston. Hester Prynne, dignified and silent, is led through prison doors to her public shaming by members of the Puritan town.
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Oxford University Press The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisAfter a two-year absence a husband returns to find his wife wearing the scarlet 'A' for Adulteress on her breast. Determined to find her lover, he embarks on a destructive path of revenge. This edition uses the most authoritative text, with a wide-ranging critical introduction.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Haunted Minds and Ambiguous Approaches
Book SynopsisThe process of Hawthorne's scholarly canonization, and the ongoing critical and cultural discourse on his works. Nathaniel Hawthorne, celebrated in his own day for sketches that now seem sentimental, came only gradually to be fully appreciated for what his friend Herman Melville diagnosed as the "power of blackness" in his fiction - the complex moral grappling with sin and guilt. By the 1850s, Hawthorne had already been accepted into the American canon, and since then, his works - especially The Scarlet Letter -- have remained ubiquitous in American culture. Along with this has come an explosion of Hawthorne criticism, from New Criticism, New Historicism, and Cultural Studies to queer theory, feminist scholarship, and transatlantic criticism, that shows no signs of slowing. This book charts Hawthorne's canonization and the ongoing critical discourse, drawing on two senses of "entanglement." First the sense from quantum physics, which allows us to see what were once seen as strict dualisms in Hawthorne as more complex relations where the poles of the would-be dualities play off of and affect each other; second, the sense of critics being tangled up in, caught up in, Hawthorne the man and his work and in previous critics' views of him. Charting the course of Hawthorne criticism as well as his place in popular culture, this book sheds light also on the culture in which his reception has occurred. Samuel Chase Coale is Professor of American Literature and Culture at Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts.Trade Review[A] useful, interesting, and humane book . . . there is much that general readers and undergraduates may find valuable . . . Coale has permitted us a fleeting glimpse at least of his conception of our author's veiled and ghostly visage -- and . . . that is no small accomplishment. * RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN LITERARY STUDY *Ultimately The Entanglements of Nathaniel Hawthorne demonstrates that Hawthorne's enduring power lies in his ability to create fiction that evades capture. Fashions in literary theory come and go -- indeed, they are often successfully applied to Hawthorne's writings -- but Coale effectively conveys that there is an elusive quality to Hawthorne's work which makes it at once endlessly fascinating and forever worthy of investigation. * THE YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *[A] highly elaborate, thorough and illuminating study of Hawthorne criticism. . . . [O]ffers an excellent impression of the abundance and diversity of scholarly approaches to Hawthorne and an enlightening reflection of their theoretical foundations and practical applications. * ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Entanglements The Legacy of The Scarlet Letter: Hawthorne inContemporary Culture Hawthorne as Nineteenth-Century Morbid Genius Biographical and Critical Veils in the Nineteenth Century Biographical Visions of the Twentieth Century Entangled Polarities: The New Criticism Doubting Dualisms: The Strategies of Hawthorne'sRomance Ideological Contexts: Deconstruction, Feminism,the New Historicism, Race, and Entanglement Works Cited Index
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Pan Macmillan The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisRoger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both.A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England settlers at odds with the seventeenth-century Puritan society in which they live, and remains one of literature's most evocative portraits of a love triangle.This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Scarlet Letter features an afterword by broadcaster Jonty Claypole.
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform The Scarlet Letter
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Vintage Publishing The Scarlet Letter
Book Synopsis''One of the greatest allegories in all literature'' D.H. Lawrence Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl''s father. Hester''s refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter ''A'' for ''Adulteress''Trade ReviewAn extraordinary work of the imagination that burns from page to page with the fierce simplicity of scripture and an almost cinematic clarity of vision. The Scarlet Letter is an astounding book full of intense symbolism, as strange and haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe * Guardian *Something might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite in quality as anything that had been received -- Henry JamesNo facile answers are provided here. Hester is, after all, guilty; Pearl the "Elfin" child, has devilish traits; the Puritans are given their due. Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are villains because of their hypocrisy but remain sympathetic because they are both self-destructive... * Independent *A defiant adulteress; a community of hypocrites who force her to wear a scarlet letter A around her neck as a badge of her shame; an evil husband, secretly stoking the fires of their moral fervour until it reaches boiling point; and, finally, a stunning public confession in which the woman reveals the identity of her lover, who is then promptly sent to the gallows * Sunday Times *In making fiction out of the excesses of his Puritan ancestors, Hawthorne anticipated the technique of a modern movie-director. He was a master of crowd scenes * Financial Times *
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HarperCollins Publishers The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.'A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne''s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.
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Vintage Publishing The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisVINTAGE CLASSICS' AMERICAN GOTHIC SERIESSpine-tingling, mind-altering and deliciously atmospheric, journey into the dark side of America with nine of its most uncanny classics.Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed an unforgivable sin. Everyone knows that her little daughter, Pearl, is the product of an illicit affair but no one knows the identity of Pearl's father. Hester's refusal to name him brings more condemnation upon her. But she stands strong in the face of public scorn, even when she is forced to wear the sign of her shame sewn onto her clothes: the scarlet letter 'A' for 'Adulteress'Trade ReviewAn extraordinary work of the imagination that burns from page to page with the fierce simplicity of scripture and an almost cinematic clarity of vision. The Scarlet Letter is an astounding book full of intense symbolism, as strange and haunting as anything by Edgar Allan Poe—GuardianSomething might at last be sent to Europe as exquisite in quality as anything that had been received—Henry JamesNo facile answers are provided here. Hester is, after all, guilty; Pearl the "Elfin" child, has devilish traits; the Puritans are given their due. Chillingworth and Dimmesdale are villains because of their hypocrisy but remain sympathetic because they are both self-destructive...—IndependentA defiant adulteress; a community of hypocrites who force her to wear a scarlet letter A around her neck as a badge of her shame; an evil husband, secretly stoking the fires of their moral fervour until it reaches boiling point; and, finally, a stunning public confession in which the woman reveals the identity of her lover, who is then promptly sent to the gallows—Sunday TimesIn making fiction out of the excesses of his Puritan ancestors, Hawthorne anticipated the technique of a modern movie-director. He was a master of crowd scenes—Financial Times
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Union Square & Co. The Scarlet Letter
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Harvard University Press The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisHawthorne’s greatest romance is often simplistically seen as a timeless tale of desire, sin, and redemption. In his Introduction, Michael J. Colacurcio argues that it is also a serious historical novel. This edition reproduces the authoritative text of The Scarlet Letter in the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne.Table of Contents* Introduction to The Scarlet Letter * A Preface to the Text * Textual Introduction: The Scarlet Letter * Preface to the Second Edition * The Custom-House-Introductory * The Prison-Door * The Market-Place * The Recognition * The Interview * Hester at Her Needle * Pearl * The Governor's Hall * The Elf-Child and the Minister * The Leech * The Leech and His Patient * The Interior of a Heart * The Minister's Vigil * Another View of Hester * Hester and the Physician * Hester and Pearl * A Forest Walk * The Pastor and His Parishioner * A Flood of Sunshine * The Child at the Brook-Side * The Minister in a Maze * The New England Holiday * The Procession * The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter * Conclusion * Variants in the First Edition * Variants in the Second Edition * Editorial Emendations in the Copy-Text * Textual Notes * Historical Collation * Word-Division * Special Collation List: Variants between the First and Second Editions * Appendix to the Third Printing
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Flame Tree Publishing The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of seventeenth-century New England, Hester Prynne is branded with an 'A' to mark her adultery and the strict condemnation of the Puritan community. As Hester's crimes define her public life and the sinister Roger Chillingworth vows revenge, this devastating tale follows the characters as they grapple with shame, remorse and repentance. FLAME TREE 451: From mystery to crime, supernatural to horror and fantasy to science fiction, Flame Tree 451 offers a healthy diet of werewolves and mechanical men, blood-lusty vampires, dastardly villains, mad scientists, secret worlds, lost civilizations and escapist fantasies. Discover a storehouse of tales gathered specifically for the reader of the fantastic. Each book features a brand new biography and glossary of Literary, Gothic and Victorian terms.
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Chiltern Publishing The Scarlet Letter
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Alma Books Ltd The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisHaving been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and her illegitimate child in the hostile environment of seventeenth-century Puritan Boston. Nathaniel Hawthorne's tense narrative astonished readers with its unparalleled psychological depth when it first appeared, and the novel now stands as one of America's literary landmarks.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest allegories in all literature. -- D.H. Lawrence The books of Hawthorne... should be sold by the hundred thousand, and read by the million; and admired by everyone who is capable of admiration. -- Herman Melville We look upon him as one of the few men of indisputable genius to whom our country has as yet given birth. -- Edgar Allan Poe The finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country. -- Henry James
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Scarlet Letter
Book SynopsisIntroduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, set in the rigid moral climate of 17th-century New England. The young mother of an illegitimate child confronts her Puritan judges. However, it is not so much her harsh sentence, but the cruelties of slowly exposed guilt as her lover is revealed, that hold the reader enthralled all the way to the book's poignant climax.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Scarlet Letter: A Romance
Book SynopsisHawthorne's story of the disgraced Hester Prynne (who must wear a scarlet "A" as the mark of her adultery), of her illegitimate child, Pearl, and of the righteous minister Arthur Dimmesdale continues to resonate with modern readers. Set in mid-seventeenth-century Boston, this powerful tale of passion, Puritanism, and revenge is one of the foremost classics of American literature.This Broadview edition contains a selection of historical documents that include Hawthorne's writings on Puritanism, the historical sources of the story, and contemporary reviews of the novel. New to the second edition are an updated critical introduction and bibliography and, in the appendices, additional writings by Margaret Fuller, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry James, and William Dean Howells.Trade Review“Anyone interested in how novels refract history will be enriched by the Broadview edition of The Scarlet Letter. The valuable introduction and extensive archival material will give readers a great foundation for using Hawthorne’s historicist methodology as a model for discussing the complexities of history and storytelling not only for Hawthorne but for contemporary readers as well.” — Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago“John Stephen Martin’s meticulously prepared edition of The Scarlet Letter offers both students and general readers the most comprehensive introduction to Hawthorne’s life and work currently available in one volume. With its historical contextualization, enormously helpful annotations, and judicious assessment of Hawthorne’s greatest work, it establishes itself as the single best guide to this great American masterpiece.” — Joel Porte, Cornell University“This edition is the most effective teaching tool for Hawthorne’s text that I know. Contained within a single volume, students have everything that is necessary for a rich understanding of one of the most important moments in American literary history. Especially donative are the substantial contextualizations provided here—literary, social, and historical—and in turn, these contextualizations ground the principal issues with which Hawthorne’s romance engages. Supplementary to all this is the extensive bibliography, far-ranging and comprehensive. This edition is easily the most comprehensive introduction to the work that is currently available.” — Ian Bell, Keele UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Scarlet Letter, A RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne and Brook Farm (1841)Appendix B: Hawthorne at Concord (1842–1845): Thoreau, Emerson, Fuller, and TranscendentalismAppendix C: The Controversy of “The Custom-House” IntroductionAppendix D: Hawthorne’s Preface to the Second EditionAppendix E: Hawthorne’s Earlier Writings on Puritan History From “Endicott and the Red Cross” (1838) From “Main-street” (1849) From “The Celestial Rail-road” (1843) Appendix F: Hawthorne’s American NotebooksAppendix G: Hawthorne’s Ironic VisionAppendix H: The Development of The Scarlet Letter into a RomanceAppendix I: Imagination and “the Neutral Ground” of MoonlightAppendix J: Historical Sources for The Scarlet LetterAppendix K: Contemporary Reviews of The Scarlet Letter From Anon.,“The New Romance,” Boston Transcript (15 March 1850) From Anon., Salem Register (21 March 1850) From Evert A. Duyckinck, “Nathaniel Hawthorne,” The Literary World (30 March 1850) From George Ripley, New York Tribune Supplement (1 April 1850) From E.P. Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (May 1850) From Henry F. Chorley, Athenæum (June 1850) From Anne W. Abbott, North American Review (July 1850) From George Bailey Loring, Massachusetts Quarterly Review (September 1850) From Orestes Brownson, Brownson’s Quarterly Review (October 1850) From Arthur Cleveland Coxe, “The Writings of Hawthorne,” Church Review (January 1851) From Henry James, Hawthorne (1879) From William Dean Howells, Heroines of Fiction (1901) Appendix L: IllustrationsWorks Cited and Recommended Readings
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Random House Publishing Group THE SCARLET LETTER AND SELECTED TALES
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HarperCollins Publishers The Scarlet Letter Collins Classics
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.''Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.''A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne''s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.
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ELI s.r.l. The Scarlet Letter audio download
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Peter Pauper Press The Scarlet Letter Masterpiece Library Edition
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Union Square & Co. The Scarlet Letter Barnes Noble Collectible
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical study of guilt and sin has since been lauded as the most important work of fiction by its distinguished author - and a landmark of American literature.
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Reader's Library Classics The Scarlet Letter (Reader's Library Classics)
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WW Norton & Co The Scarlet Letter The Norton Library
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WW Norton & Co The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings A Norton
Book SynopsisThis perennially popular Norton Critical Edition has been revised to reflect the most current scholarly approaches to The Scarlet Letter—Hawthorne's most widely read novel—as well as to the five short prose works—“Mrs. Hutchinson”, “Endicott and
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Ohio State University Press Works Vol I the Scarlet Letter 0001 Centenary
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Klett Sprachen GmbH The Scarlet Letter Englische Lektre fr das 5 und
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Arcturus Publishing Classical Mythology
Book SynopsisNathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist and short-story writer. Noted for the dark romanticism of his tales, he is best known for works such as The Scarlet Letter and short story collections such as Twice-Told Tales.Walter Crane (1845-1915) was a British artist who became renowned for his work during the Arts and Crafts Movement and especially for his illustrations for children's books. A student of the artist and critic John Ruskin, he was also influenced by artists such as William Morris. As well as his work for children's titles, he also wrote poetry and produced designs for stained-glass windows.
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Penguin Publishing Group Selected Tales and Sketches Classics S
Book SynopsisThe 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.
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Karma The House of the Seven Gables
Book SynopsisAlex Katz illustrates Hawthorne’s classic gothic tale of Puritan New England While enrolled in an illustration course at Cooper Union in 1948, Alex Katz (born 1927) created nine ink drawings to accompany Nathaniel Hawthorne’s gothic romance, The House of the Seven Gables. Published a century earlier, in 1851, Hawthorne’s classic novel is a solemn study of greed, guilt and atonement under the Puritan moral code of 19th-century New England, inspired by the curse pronounced on Hawthorne's own family by a condemned woman during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–64) was one of the most influential American writers of the 19th century, known for his darkly romantic stories and novels such as The Scarlet Letter. He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and belonged to a prominent circle of New England–based writers and philosophers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott. Alex Katz (born 1927) is a New York–based artist known for his large-scale Pop-inspired canvases of two-dimensional figures set against monochrome backgrounds. For over seven decades, his work has been the subject of hundreds of solo and group exhibitions worldwide.
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Broadview Press Ltd The Blithedale Romance
Book SynopsisInspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s own experience as a member of the famous Brook Farm Community, which the author describes in his preface as the “most romantic episode” in his life, The Blithedale Romance is one of the most engaging and complex of Hawthorne’s novels. Recounting the hopeful formation and slow fragmentation of a reform-minded socialist community in antebellum Massachusetts, the novel has increasingly preoccupied commentators on American literature and culture over the last few decades.The editors’ new introduction helps the reader to negotiate Blithedale’s literary difficulties by offering a detailed reflection on the main problems confronted by past and present interpreters of the novel. Appendices expand on the central historical theme of reform, highlighting the novel’s references to women’s emancipation, antislavery, and Utopian socialism.Trade Review“The Broadview edition of The Blithedale Romance is an exceptional scholarly achievement. The excellent critical introduction, along with the wealth of biographical and historical materials, at last make it possible to see Hawthorne’s novel in all its complexity and brilliance.” — Eric J. Sundquist, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University“The introduction, by Michael J. Colacurcio (a scholar unrivaled in Hawthorne criticism over the past three decades) and Luke Bresky, is a major piece of literary analysis. An authoritative text of the novel, judicious annotations to help readers with historical persons and events, and extensive appendices contextualizing more fully than heretofore the religious, feminist, reformist, and slavery contexts in which the book should be read—all these make this edition of The Blithedale Romance unsurpassed.” — Frederick Newberry, Professor Emeritus, Duquesne University, former editor of The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review“The Blithedale Romance is a brilliant novel, one that compresses into its reveries and observations some of the most urgent issues troubling antebellum America. With this sparkling new edition, Colacurcio and Bresky not only recognize Hawthorne’s political thoughtfulness, but also include a rich framework of primary sources through which to approach the allusive energy of Hawthorne’s prose. I am looking forward to using this edition in my American Literature courses.” — Dana Medoro, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNathaniel Hawthorne: A Brief ChronologyA Note on the TextThe Blithedale RomanceAppendix A: Hawthorne on Brook Farm, Reform, and Social Change Nathaniel Hawthorne, Selected Letters to Sophia Peabody (April 1841 to June 1842) From “The Hall of Fantasy” (1843, 1846) From “Earth’s Holocaust” (1844, 1846) From “The Old Manse” (1846) From The Scarlet Letter (1850) Appendix B: Universal Reform and Associationism From George Ripley, Letter to the Church in Purchase Street (1 October 1840) From “‘The Memory and Example of the Just,’ A Sermon, Preached on All Saints’ Day, to the First Church, by Its Minister, N.L. Frothingham. Boston, 1840.” Christian Examiner (January 1841) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Chardon Street and Bible Conventions,” The Dial (July 1842) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Lectures on the Times,” The Dial (July 1842) From Ralph Waldo Emerson, “New England Reformers” (1844) From Albert Brisbane, “Association and Social Reform,” The Boston Quarterly Review (April 1842) From Charles Lane, “Brook Farm,” The Dial (January 1844) From Andrew Jackson Davis, The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and a Voice to Mankind (1847) Appendix C: Woman Emancipating, Woman Emancipated Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Massachusetts (28 June 1837) From Sarah Grimké, Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, Addressed to Mary S. Parker, President of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society (1838) From Letter III: The Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts From Letter XII: Legal Disabilities of Women From Catharine E. Beecher, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, with Reference to the Duty of American Females (1837) From William Lloyd Garrison, “Letter to the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society,” The Liberator (16 October 1840) Margaret Fuller, Selected Comments on Woman From “Leila,” The Dial (April 1841) From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) Sophia Ripley, “Woman,” The Dial (January 1841) From Orestes Brownson, “Miss Fuller and Reformers,” Brownson’s Quarterly Review (April 1845) From Oneida Community [John Humphrey Noyes], “Bible Argument; Defining the Relations of the Sexes in the Kingdom of Heaven” (1849) From Theodore Parker, “Sermon of the Public Function of Woman” (1853) Appendix D: The Fugitive Slave Law and Northern Anti-slavery From the US Constitution, Fugitive Slave Act (1850) From Horace Mann, “Speech to the Massachusetts Convention in Opposition to the Fugitive Slave Law” (1851) Caroline W. Healey Dall, “Amy. A Tale,” Liberty Bell (1849) Antislavery Emblems: “Am I Not a Woman and a Sister?” Josiah Wedgwood Antislavery Medallion (1787) Typefounder’s Cut from The Liberator (1832) Kneeling Slave with Dame Justice, from the Cover Page of Authentic Anecdotes of American Slavery (1838) by Lydia Maria Child Needlecase Stamped with Antislavery Emblem Appendix E: Harriet Hosmer, Zenobia in Chains (1859)Appendix F: Contemporary Reviews of The Blithedale Romance From “Contemporary Literature of America: ‘The Blithedale Romance,’” The Westminster Review (October 1852) Edwin Percy Whipple, Graham’s Magazine (September 1852) Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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Manga Classics Inc. Manga Classics Scarlet Letter (New Printing)
Book SynopsisA powerful tale of forbidden love, shame, and revenge comes to life in Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter. Faithfully adapted by Crystal Chan from the original novel, this new edition features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee (Manga Classics: Les Miserables) which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into the Nathaniel Hawthorne's tragic saga of Puritan America. Manga Classics editions feature classic stories, faithfully adapted and illustrated in manga style, and available in both hardcover and softcover editions. Proudly presented by UDON Entertainment and Morpheus Publishing.Trade Review"Highly Recommended. Even in this more modernized narrative, the spirit of Hawthorne's eloquent language remains. Thanks to this faithful and accessible adaptation, this classic's tale of love, sin, and the strength of a single mother will reach a whole new audience." - School Library Journal
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Princeton University Press Frontier in American Literature
Book SynopsisContents: Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1: Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper; Chapter 2: Nathaniel Hawthorne; Sketches of Western Adventure; The Scarlet Letter; Neutral Territory; Chapter 3: Edgar Allan Poe; South and West; Narratives of Exploration and Discovery; Chapter 4: Henry David Thoreau; The Essential West; Walden: The PioneerTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Preface, pg. vii*Contents, pg. xv*Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER ONE. The Leatherstocking Tales of James Fenimore Cooper, pg. 27*CHAPTER THREE. Edgar Allan Poe, pg. 132*CHAPTER FOUR. Henry David Thoreau, pg. 175*CHAPTER FIVE. Herman Melville, pg. 232*CHAPTER SIX. Indian Summer of the Literary West, pg. 327*CHAPTER SEVEN. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, pg. 397*Index, pg. 443
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University of Toronto Press Northrop Frye and American Fiction
Book SynopsisClaude Le Fustec presents insightful readings of the presence of transcendence and biblical imagination in canonical novels by American writers ranging from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Toni Morrison.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Re-Enchantment, Post-Secularity and the Return of Transcendence in Western Culture 1. The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Imagination and the Kerygmatic Power of Sin 2. Henry James's The Europeans: Secularity and the Descent of the Word 3. Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath 5. "In the Name of the Lost Father": Postsecular Mysticism in On the Road 6. "I Will Call Them My People": Toni Morrison's Postsecular Gospel of Self and Community Conclusion: Kerygma and the Promises of Post-Secular Imagination in Postmodern Times Notes Bibliography
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St. Martin's Press Hester
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2022 by Goodreads Washington Post New York Post BuzzFeed PopSugar Business Insider An October 2022 Indie Next List Pick An October 2022 LibraryReads PickA hauntingly beautifuland imaginedorigin story to The Scarlet Letter. People WHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE?Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Glasgow for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they''ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medicleaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible.When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other:
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St Martin's Press Hester
Book SynopsisNamed a Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2022 by Goodreads Washington Post New York Post BuzzFeed PopSugar Business Insider An October 2022 Indie Next List Pick An October 2022 LibraryReads PickA hauntingly beautifuland imaginedorign story to The Scarlet Letter. PeopleWHO IS THE REAL HESTER PRYNNE?Isobel Gamble is a young seamstress carrying generations of secrets when she sets sail from Scotland in the early 1800s with her husband, Edward. An apothecary who has fallen under the spell of opium, his pile of debts have forced them to flee Edinburgh for a fresh start in the New World. But only days after they''ve arrived in Salem, Edward abruptly joins a departing ship as a medicleaving Isobel penniless and alone in a strange country, forced to make her way by any means possible.When she meets a young Nathaniel Hawthorne, the two are instantly drawn to each other: he
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University of Massachusetts Press Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early
Book SynopsisAntebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era.
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University of Massachusetts Press Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early
Book SynopsisAntebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure would come to dominate national headlines from the 1840s onward: Madame Restell. Facing public condemnation and mob attacks at her home for her dogged support of women's reproductive rights, Restell built an empire selling her powders, pills, and services along the Eastern Seaboard.Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne undoubtedly knew of Restell's work and would go on to depict the incompatibility of abortion and nationalism in their writings. Through the thwarted plotlines, genealogical interruptions, and terminated ideas of Poe's Dupin trilogy and Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, The House of Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, these authors consider new concepts around race, reproduction, and American exceptionalism. Dana Medoro demonstrates that their work can be usefully read in the context of debates on fetal life and personhood that circulated in the era.
£69.30
Cambridge University Press Studies in Classic American Literature
Book SynopsisStudies in Classic American Literature (1923) provides a cross-section of D. H. Lawrence's writing on American literature, including landmark essays on Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and Walt Whitman. This volume offers the final 1923 version of the text, and a host of related materials.Trade Review'… excellently produced …' The Use of English'… a brilliant and necessary book because it opens up familiar texts, reminding us that the best literary criticism is always in the end both evaluative and engaged.' The Times Literary Supplement'… an excellently edited book, with a detailed, informative and scholarly introduction, and very helpful annotations. I think the greatest merit of this edition is that it also includes the English Review articles, together with their different versions, published or unpublished.' English StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Cue-titles; Introduction; Studies in Classic American Literature: Final version (1923); First version (1918–19); Intermediate version (1919); Appendices: 1. Reading notes for The Scarlet Letter; 2. Foreword to Studies in Classic American Literature (1920); 3. Foreword (1922); 4. Nathaniel Hawthorne's Blithedale Romance (1920–1); 5. XIII.Whitman (1921–2); 6. XII.Whitman (1922); Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Variorum apparatus; A note on pounds, shillings and pence; Index.
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MB - Cornell University Press Citizens of Somewhere Else
Book SynopsisI am a citizen of somewhere else, proclaimed Nathaniel Hawthorne in his preface to The Scarlet Letter. In many ways, Henry James shared that citizenship. Intrigued by their resolute stance as outsiders, Dan McCall here reassesses these two...Trade ReviewA surprisingly delightful book. * Washington Post Book World *Dan McCall is clearly an outstanding teacher. He writes in an informal, conversational style that gently demonstrates his passion for these two writers.... McCall's discussion is lively and convincing... McCall has a keen eye for linguistic detail, and he is at his best when carefully examining the novels and stories he explores. -- Kristin Boudreay * Henry James Review *In this study of significant works of Hawthorne and James, Dan McCall exhibits a style that allows him to say what he thinks—to draw freely on his experience in the classroom, his considerable literary intelligence, and his sometimes technicolor views of recent criticism. The result is a book as refreshing as it is perceptive. * American Literature *It is a measure of the success of Dan McCall's Citizens of Somewhere Else that, in his perceptive and passionately argued study of the fiction of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James, he communicates an infectious enthusiasm for the act of reading itself..... More an expression of jaunty resistance than reactionary truculence, McCall's good-natured opposition to critical fashion affords his book its considerable distinction as much as his revealing perceptions.... Citizens of Somewhere Else is highly recommended reading. -- Stephen Harris * Australasian Journal of American Studies *McCall... talks casually yet knowledgeably of these two novelists' fruitful alienation, of lives lived more in the 'land of writing itself' than in some material place.... The book's importance lies in its use of the the two authors and their work to look at the larger issue of what it means to be an American writer. * Choice *McCall is especially adept at registering the passionate intensity of both Hawthorne's and James's prose, in particular to relation to sexual passion itself.... He also captures what we might think of as the sound or feel of American culture. -- Emily Miller Budick * Canadian Review of American Studies *McCall's jargon-free style is a plus, along with his ideas on teaching American Literature to undergraduates. * Library Journal *Reminding us of the pleasures literary criticism can provide, McCall's splendid new book on Hawthorne and James demonstrates a passion for literature, not politics. In conversational but elegant prose, McCall explores how his subjects navigated 'the relationship between the lived life and the achieved art.'... Fresh and incisive. * Publishers Weekly *
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Penguin Publishing Group All the World Beside
Book Synopsis?A heart-wrenching story of love, family, and spirituality.? ?People MagazineFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England.Cana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister?s words a love so captivating it transcends language.As the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next. And when the religious ecstasies of the Great Awakening begin to take hold, igniting a new era of zealotry, Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation, imagining a future for themselves which has no name. Their wives and children must do the same, looking beyond the known world for a new kind of wilderness, both physical and spiritual.Set during the turbulent historical upheavals which shaped America?s destiny and following in the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter, All the World Beside reveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief. Bestselling author Garrard Conley has created a page-turning, vividly imagined historical tale that is both a love story and a crucible.
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Skyhorse Publishing The Jungle
Book Synopsis“The Uncle Tom’s Cabin of wage slavery.” —Jack London. Sinclair’s masterpiece is an honest, sometimes brutal, tour de force that opened America’s eyes to the struggles and horrors many immigrants endured.Welcome to Chicago during the early 1900s. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle portrays the hardships of the immigrant working class in a way that changed literature and history. The story begins with Lithuanian immigrant Jurgis Rudkus, who takes a job at Brown’s slaughterhouse to try to earn enough money to stay afloat. His life becomes a constant struggle—he, his young wife, Ona, and the rest of his family eventually falling victim to a slew of unfortunate circumstances including exploitation, abuse, and for some even death.From unsanitary and unsafe working conditions to poverty wages, the novel revealed to the American public the struggles immigrants encountered in Chicago’s meatpacking industry. Sinclair, a muckraking journalist, penned the bestselling narrative in an attempt to expose the evils of capitalism, and bring to light the extreme adversity these people faced not just in Chicago, but in industrialized cities across the country. By detailing numerous health violations in these workplaces, Sinclair’s novel caused public outrage and eventually led to the passing of the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.Packaged in handsome, affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is a new series of essential literary works. It features literary phenomena with influence and themes so great that, after their publication, they changed literature forever. From the musings of literary geniuses such as Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter, to the striking personal narratives from Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our history through the words of the exceptional few.
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