The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9781101099889
ISBN-13 : 1101099887
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

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Download or read book The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.” By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne explored the destinies and concerns of early American settlers and citizens. In several of the stories in this collection, characters who hold themselves apart from their fellow man fall prey to the corroding desires of lust for perfection. Then they unwittingly commit evils—against themselves and others—in the name of pride. Edgar Allan Poe noted of Hawthorne’s writing: “Every word tells, and there is not a word which does not tell.”

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0451530209
ISBN-13 : 9780451530202
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories by : Nathaniel Hawthorne

Download or read book The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.” By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne explored the destinies and concerns of early American settlers and citizens. In several of the stories in this collection, characters who hold themselves apart from their fellow man fall prey to the corroding desires of lust for perfection. Then they unwittingly commit evils—against themselves and others—in the name of pride. Edgar Allan Poe noted of Hawthorne’s writing: “Every word tells, and there is not a word which does not tell.”

Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
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ISBN-10 : 1322686556
ISBN-13 : 9781322686554
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

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Download or read book Celestial Railroad and Other Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Selected Tales and Sketches

Selected Tales and Sketches
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 481
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ISBN-10 : 9781101077801
ISBN-13 : 1101077808
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

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Download or read book Selected Tales and Sketches written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-03-03 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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.

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories

The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories
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Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9780143180128
ISBN-13 : 0143180126
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

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Download or read book The Penguin Henry Lawson Short Stories written by Henry Lawson and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great observers of Australian life, Henry Lawson looms large in our national psyche. Yet at his best Lawson transcends the very bush, the very outback, the very up-country, the very pub or selector's hut he conveys with such brevity and acuity- he make specific places universal. Henry Lawson is too often regarded as a legend rather than a writer to be enjoyed. In this selection Lawson is revealed as an author whose delightful, humorous, wry and moving short stories continue to delight generations of readers. This is the essential Lawson collection - the classic of Australian classics. 'Lawson's sketches are beyond praise.' Joseph Conrad'Lawson gets more feelings, observation and atmosphere into a page than does Hemingway.' Edward Garnett

Celestial Railroad And Other Stories

Celestial Railroad And Other Stories
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Publisher : Turtleback Books
Total Pages :
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ISBN-10 : 141775950X
ISBN-13 : 9781417759507
Rating : 4/5 (0X Downloads)

Book Synopsis Celestial Railroad And Other Stories by : Nathaniel Hawthorne

Download or read book Celestial Railroad And Other Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the destinies and concerns of early American settlers and citizens, and collects tales about such subjects as witches, a lynching, a vision, an attempt to create the perfect woman, and forbidden experiments.

Hawthorne's Short Stories

Hawthorne's Short Stories
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 9780307741219
ISBN-13 : 0307741214
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

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Download or read book Hawthorne's Short Stories written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown," in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; “Rappaccini's Daughter," about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and "The Birthmark," in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human.