Nathaniel Hawthorne

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

In the interval of silence he stole forward until the light glared full upon his eyes. At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an alter or a pulpit, and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting. The mass of foliage that had overgrown the summit of the rock was all on fire, blazing high into the night and fitfully illuminating the whole field. Each pendent twig and leafy festoon was in a blaze. As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness, peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once. "A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown. In truth they were such.

Throughout his richly varied literary career, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) wrote compelling short stories of enduring appeal. His first important publication, long before The Scarlet Letter, was the 1837 collection Twice-Told Tales, which brought the New England writer immediate fame and high praise from no less an authority than Edgar Allan Poe. Another compilation, Mosses from an Old Manse, followed in 1846 and achieved further success. This volume contains six stories from those collections as well as another superb selection, "My Kinsman, Major Molineux." In addition to the latter tale and the title story, this edition includes "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," "The Birthmark," "Rappaccini's Daughter," "Roger Malvin's Burial" and "The Artist of the Beautiful." Here are tales rich in atmosphere and suspense, with plots centering on subjects as diverse as witchcraft, revenge, the power of guilt, and a passion for the beautiful, all recounted in the distinctive voice of one of America's great writers. --back cover Dr. Heidegger's experiment -- The birthmark -- Young Goodman Brown -- Rappaccini's daughter -- Roger Malvin's burial -- The artist of the beautiful -- My kinsman, Major Molineux.

The main character is a great scientist and lover of nature with a beautiful wife whom he loves dearly. However, despite the love Aylmer has for his wife, he wonders whether the birthmark she has on her cheek can be removed.

Грешница, блудница, прелюбодейка! Пуританские нравы не знают пощады, и за измену мужу молодая Эстер Принн приговорена к позорному столбу. До конца своих дней она обречена носить на одежде алую букву — знак бесчестия. Муж Эстер не в силах ее простить. Он решает во что бы то ни стало узнать, кто является отцом ребенка, и отомстить... В издание также вошел роман «Дом с семью шпилями».

The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism.

The text of The Scarlet Letter is based on the 1850 third edition, the first set in stereotype plates and the basis of subsequent printings in Hawthorne s lifetime. An invaluable selection of contextual material includes five Hawthorne stories that are closely related to The Scarlet Letter, along with relevant letters and notebook entries. A substantial excerpt from Hawthorne s campaign biography of Franklin Pierce offers a revealing glimpse at Hawthorne s political thought, especially regarding slavery and abolition. "Criticism" provides a comprehensive overview of early and modern commentary on The Scarlet Letter and the stories in this edition, including nineteenth-century reviews of the novel and critical essays by Robert S. Levine, Nina Baym, Larry J. Reynolds, and Jean Fagan Yellin. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included."

Tales of Greek mythology have entertained countless generations of young readers with their accounts of brave heroes and heroines and the marvels and monsters that they encounter. This edition of Greek Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys features six classic tales written especially for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It includes the legends of Pandora and the Box of Troubles, King Midas and the Golden Touch, Perseus and the Medusa, Philemon and Baucis, Bellerophon and Pegasus, and the labors of Hercules, all illustrated magnificently in color by Walter Crane.

Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

Infringir las estrictas normas morales que rigen una comunidad profundamente religiosa supone la inmediata expulsión del miembro que ha consumado el delito. Eso es lo que le sucede a Hester Prynne, señalada por la sociedad puritana en la que vive al haber cometido adulterio en ausencia de su marido. Obligada a vivir al margen de sus semejantes y a criar en solitario a su hija nacida del pecado, Hester intenta labrar su nueva vida demostrando su independencia y fortaleza de carácter. Una vida a la que también están indisolublemente vinculados su marido Roger Chillingworth y el reverendo Arthur Dimmesdale, ambos consumidos por oscuros y violentos sentimientos.

Kisah tragis memalukan yang menimpa seorang wanita dan perlakuan kejam kaum Puritan di sekitarnya terhadap dirinya. Selama dua tahun Hester Pryne, seorang penduduk New England, menanti suaminya, seorang Inggris terpelajar. Sang suami datang dan menemukan istrinya di panggung hukuman dengan bayi mungil dalam gendongannya. Sebagai hukuman atas tuduhan perzinahanÑadulteryÑterhadapnya, Hester harus mengenakan aksara ÒAÓ berwarna merah manyala yang tersulam di dadanya, serta diasingkan dan dicemooh oleh orang-orang di sekitarnya. Dengan tetap merahasiakan identitas suaminya dan kekasihnya, perlahan-lahan Hester merebut rasa hormat masyarakat karena perbuatan baiknya. Kekuatannya sendiri serta kepengecutan laki-laki yang menyebabkan ia harus menanggung kesalahan dan malu seorang diri sungguh sangat kontras dan berujung pada akhir yang dramatis dan mengerikan.

The sexton stood in the porch of Milford meeting-house, pulling busily at the bell-rope. The old people of the village came stooping along the street. Children, with bright faces, tripped merrily beside their parents, or mimicked a graver gait, in the conscious dignity of their Sunday clothes. Spruce bachelors looked sidelong at the pretty maidens, and fancied that the Sabbath sunshine made them prettier than on week days. When the throng had mostly streamed into the porch, the sexton began to toll the bell, keeping his eye on the Reverend Mr. Hoopers door. The first glimpse of the clergymans figure was the signal for the bell to cease its summons.

La Lettre écarlate, c'est la marque au fer rouge qui désigne la femme adultère dans l'Amérique du puritanisme obsessionnel de l'époque coloniale. Trois personnages : Hester qui vit avec une dignité admirable sa faute et sa solitude. Arthur Dimmesdale, le jeune pasteur dont les élans mystiques soulèvent à Boston l'enthousiasme des fidèles mais qui, ensorcelé par Hester, ne parvient ni à dominer ni à vivre sa sensualité. Chillingworth, le mari, qui pendant des années tourmentera en silence le pasteur jusqu'à la folie et la mort. Le premier des grands romans américains, la clef d'une sensibilité nationale toujours partagée entre la tentation du scandale et le démon de la culpabilité.

This teaching edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance reprints the Century Edition of the novel and includes a generous selection of historical materials. The documents are organized into thematic units on social reform, ninteteeth-century American utopian communities, Brook Farm, and gender relations, and include relevant excerpts from letters, diaries, periodicals and literary works by Karl Marx, Robert Owen, Frederick Douglass, Margaret Fuller, Lousia May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, among others. Editorial features designed to help students read the novel in the light of the documents includes a general introduction providing historical and cultural background, a chronology of Hawthorne's life and times, an introduction to each thematic group of documents, headnotes, extensive annotations, a generous of illustrations, and a selected bibliography.

Dopo una fitta nevicata, torna il sereno. Il cielo è azzurro, il sole brilla sui rami degli alberi, fatti cristallo dal gelo. Due bambini, incantati dalla bellezza della giornata, pregano la madre di lasciarli andare a giocare in giardino. Lei acconsente e, al caldo, dietro la finestra del salotto, osserva, fiera, il loro gioco. Costruiscono un pupazzo. Quello di cui, però, la madre non si accorge è che, sotto le loro mani, la neve ha preso vita. Il pupazzo è una creatura viva e danzante: una bambina scintillante, immacolata, che corre e scherza con gli uccelli e i due bambini che l’hanno creata. Un racconto sulla straordinaria forza creativa dell’infanzia, capace di dare forme nuove al mondo. Una giovane artista giapponese, qui al suo esordio, affronta uno dei maggiori scrittori americani dell’Ottocento. E si dimostra all’altezza del compito, riuscendo a rappresentare, in forme magiche ed elegantissime, tutta la grazia e l’energia dell’infanzia.

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks. "At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars. With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life--then and now.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) es uno de los grandes escritores norteamericanos y uno de los primeros que desde su país recibió Europa por su calidad literaria. Educado en los rígidos principios religiosos y morales del puritanismo, tuvo desde muy temprano un enfrentamiento ideológico activo a los principios éticos de sus antepasados. Reservado e introvertido, activa y deliberadamente misterioso, Hawthorne intuyó pronto que lo que se sugiere, o se dice a medias, es más impactante que lo que se escribe con claridad, porque la imaginación nos transporta a mundos donde la palabra no puede llegar. «Fanshawe» es la «opera prima» de Hawthorne. Fue publicada anónimamente y las reseñas fueron favorables. En ella está contenida en germen la temática que el escritor iba a desarrollar durante toda su carrera. Los elementos biográficos influyeron decisivamente en el escenario de la novela y en la caracterización de los personajes centrales, pero sus temas son el preludio de su narrativa: una ley transgredida, el poder diabólico, la culpa que corroe el corazón del pecador hasta aniquilarlo, el abuso de la infancia, el pecado de los padres pagado por hijos inocentes, la marginación, la confesión que purifica, la crítica a las costumbres y dogmas puritanos.

The fragility-and the durability-of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the "Marble Faun," Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam's unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne's 'International Novel' dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the 'authentic' and the 'fake' in life as in art. The author's evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society.

Rappaccini's Daughter is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1844. The story takes place in Padua, Italy, and centers around a young man named Giovanni Guasconti who becomes enamored with his neighbor, Beatrice Rappaccini. Beatrice is the daughter of a brilliant scientist, Dr. Rappaccini, who has been experimenting with poisonous plants and their effects on humans. As Giovanni becomes more involved with Beatrice, he begins to realize that she has been poisoned by her father's experiments and is herself poisonous to others. The story explores themes of love, obsession, and the dangers of scientific experimentation. It is considered one of Hawthorne's most famous and well-regarded works, and has been adapted into various forms of media, including opera and film. "Nor did he fail again to observe, or imagine, an analogy between the beautiful girl and the gorgeous shrub that hung its gem-like flowers over the fountain; a resemblance which Beatrice seemed to have indulged a fantastic humor in heightening, both by the arrangement of her dress and the selection of its hues." This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

The sins of one generation are visited upon another in a haunted New England mansion until the arrival of a young woman from the country breathes new air into mouldering lives and rooms. Written shortly after The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables re-addresses the theme of human guilt in a style remarkable in both its descriptive virtuosity and its truly modern mix of fantasy and realism.