Nathaniel Hawthorne

Passages from the American notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne - Vol. I is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

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Hawthorne sets the scene in a rural valley located in an unnamed U. S. state that resembles New Hampshire. A rock formation in a nearby notch is imagined, by many locals and visitors, to resemble the shape and features of a human face

The Scarlet Letter is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork". 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 struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

"The Scarlet Letter is beautiful, admirable, extraordinary; it has...an indefinable purity and lightness of conception...and has the charm and mystery of great works of art." HENRY JAMES "...alive with the miraculous vitality of genius." The Atlantic Monthly

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of a young woman who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt 1642, in the Puritan town of Boston, a crowd gathers to witness the punishment of Hester Prynne, a beautiful young woman found guilty of adultery. She is punished to wear a scarlet "A", standing for adulteress, on her dress to shame her. She must be exposed to public humiliation for her sin. As Hester approaches the scaffold, many of the women in the crowd are angered by her beauty and quiet dignity. When demanded and cajoled to name the father of her child. Hester refuses to name the father of the child.

Extract: It is a little remarkable, that-though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends-an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public. The first time was three or four years since, when I favoured the reader-inexcusably, and for no earthly reason that either the indulgent reader or the intrusive author could imagine-with a description of my way of life in the deep quietude of an Old Manse. And now-because, beyond my deserts, I was happy enough to find a listener or two on the former occasion-I again seize the public by the button, and talk of my three years' experience in a Custom-House. The example of the famous "P. P., Clerk of this Parish," was never more faithfully followed. The truth seems to be, however, that when he casts his leaves forth upon the wind, the author addresses, not the many who will fling aside his volume, or never take it up, but the few who will understand him better than most of his schoolmates or lifemates. Some authors, indeed, do far more than this, and indulge themselves in such confidential depths of revelation as could fittingly be addressed only and exclusively to the one heart and mind of perfect sympathy; as if the printed book, thrown at large on the wide world, were certain to find out the divided segment of the writer's own nature, and complete his circle of existence by bringing him into communion with it. It is scarcely decorous, however, to speak all, even where we speak impersonally. But, as thoughts are frozen and utterance benumbed, unless the speaker stand in some true relation with his audience, it may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive, though not the closest friend, is listening to our talk; and then, a native reserve being thawed by this genial consciousness, we may prate of the circumstances that lie around us, and even of ourself, but still keep the inmost Me behind its veil. To this extent, and within these limits, an author, methinks, may be autobiographical, without violating either the reader's rights or his own. It will be seen, likewise, that this Custom-House sketch has a certain propriety, of a kind always recognised in literature, as explaining how a large portion of the following pages came into my possession, and as offering proofs of the authenticity of a narrative therein contained.... Nathaniel Hawthorne (4 juillet 1804, Salem, Massachusetts, tats-Unis - 19 mai 1864, Plymouth, New Hampshire, tats-Unis) est un crivain am ricain, auteur de nouvelles et de romans. Biographie Jeunesse et formation Wayside, maison de Hawthorne Concord. Nathaniel Hawthorne voit le jour Salem (Massachusetts) le 4 juillet 1804. Sa maison natale a t pr serv e et est ouverte au public. William Hathorne, son arri re-grand-p re, tait un puritain qui migra d'Angleterre et s'installa Dorchester, avant de rejoindre Salem. L , il devint un membre minent de la colonie de la baie du Massachusetts et occupa plusieurs fonctions politiques, ainsi que celles de magistrat et de juge, o il se rendit c l bre par la s v rit de ses jugements. Son fils, John Hathorne, arri re-arri re-grand-p re de l'auteur, fut l'un des juges assesseurs au proc s des sorci res de Salem. la suite de la d couverte de ce fait, vers l' ge de 20 ans, l'auteur aurait ajout un w son nom, peu avant de sortir dipl m du coll ge, afin de se dissocier de ses anc tres. Le p re de Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hathorne Sr., tait capitaine de la marine marchande. Il mourut au Suriname, emport par la fi vre jaune, en 1808. Apr s, le jeune Hawthrone, sa m re et ses deux soeurs emm nagent chez les Manning, leurs parents maternels, Salem, o ils v curent dix ans. Durant ce s jour, Hawthorne est frapp la jambe lors d'un jeu de bat & ball; il devient boiteux et est clou au lit pendant un an, sans que les m d

Doctor Grimshawe s Secret By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Editorial Oneness (Edited by)

La letra escarlata (The Scarlet Letter) es una novela de Nathaniel Hawthorne publicada en 1850 y considerada su obra cumbre. Est ambientada en la puritana Nueva Inglaterra de principios del siglo XVII, y relata la historia de Hester Prynne, una mujer acusada de adulterio y condenada a llevar en su pecho una letra, de ad ltera. Hester rechaza revelar la identidad del padre de su hija, y trata de vivir con dignidad en una sociedad injusta e hip crita. En la novela Hawthorne trata los temas del legalismo, el pecado y la culpa.