Nathaniel Hawthorne

Vielfach verfilmt, ist diese amerikanische tiefenpsychologische Schuld- und S hne-Novelle ein Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur. Die Ehebrecherin Esther Prynne tr gt den scharlachroten Buchstaben A f r Adultery wie eine Auszeichnung. In der puritanischen Umgebung der Pilgerv ter Bostons im Jahr 1640 ist sexuelle Ausschweifung absolut verp nt. Nathaniel Hawthorne entstammte selbst einer alten Puritanerfamilie. Sein Gro vater war einer der Richter bei den Hexenprozessen von Salem. Mit "The Scarlet Letter" erlangte er Weltruhm. Gr ls-Verlag (Edition Werken der Weltliteratur)

Vielfach verfilmt, ist diese amerikanische tiefenpsychologische Schuld- und S hne-Novelle ein Klassiker der amerikanischen Literatur. Die Ehebrecherin Esther Prynne tr gt den scharlachroten Buchstaben A f r Adultery wie eine Auszeichnung. In der puritanischen Umgebung der Pilgerv ter Bostons im Jahr 1640 ist sexuelle Ausschweifung absolut verp nt. Nathaniel Hawthorne entstammte selbst einer alten Puritanerfamilie. Sein Gro vater war einer der Richter bei den Hexenprozessen von Salem. Mit "The Scarlet Letter" erlangte er Weltruhm. Gr ls-Verlag (Edition Werken der Weltliteratur)

First published in 1851, The House of the Seven Gables is one of Hawthorne's defining works, a vivid depiction of American life and values replete with brilliantly etched characters. The tale of a cursed house with a ""mysterious and terrible past"" and the generations linked to it, Hawthorne's chronicle of the Maule and Pyncheon families over two centuries reveals, in Mary Oliver's words, ""lives caught in the common fire of history."" Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on 4 July 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts was an American short-story writer and novelist who experimented with a broad range of styles and genres. He is best known for his short-stories and two widely read novels: The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of Seven Gables (1851). This is the most popular novel that is still relevant and relatable.

Alex 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.