Hawthorne Nathaniel: 696 books

Nathaniel Hawthorne, durch seine Romane „Der Scharlachbuchstabe“ und „Das Haus der sieben Giebel“ zu Weltruhm gelangt, verfasste zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten, in denen der Schriftsteller mit geübtem Blick Wünsche, Sehnsüchte, Irrungen und Verfehlungen der Menschen betrachtet und auf allegorische,...

La letra escarlata esta considerada la mejor novela norteamericana del siglo XIX.Ambientada en la Nueva Inglaterra de los puritanos del siglo XVII, La letra escarlata (1849) narra el terrible impacto que un simple acto de pasion desencadena en las vidas de tres miembros de la comunidad.

Historias dos veces contadasNathaniel Hawthorne es justamente reconocido por la singularidad de sus alegorías y simbolismos, y también por su insólita capacidad de escrutar la psicología y la moral humanas. Sus escritos, de atmósfera enigmática, llevaron a Borges a compararlo con Melville y...

El Abuelo se quedó impresionado ante la idea de Laurence de que el histórico sillón pudiera poseer una voz propia y verter a través de ella la sabiduría acumulada de dos siglos.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: It seems justly due to Mr. Hawthorne that the occasion of any portion of his private journals being brought before the Public should be made known, since they were originally designed for his own reference...

Sara Maitland selects a collection Hawthorne's best stories, as well as providing a critical analysis of Hawthorne's work. Drawing out themes in Hawthorne's work including iIntertextuality', 'excess', 'social critique' and 'refusal of closure', Maitland's specially commissioned introduction encourages us to re-evaluate the stories of a pioneer of the short from. 

This compilation offers Hawthorne's tales, sketches and other papers that were not included in any other publication. The first group of short pieces embraced in this volume belongs to Hawthorne s earlier period; excepting " Browne s Folly," which was addressed to the author's cousin, Mr....

The existence of this story, posthumously published, was not known to any one but Hawthorne himself, until some time after his death, when the manuscript was found among his papers. The preparation and copying of his Note-Books for the press occupied the most of Mrs. Hawthorne's available time during...

'Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.' With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search...

The Blithedale Romance, considered one of Hawthorne's major novels, explores the limitations of human nature set against an experiment in communal living. From mesmerism to illicit love, The Blithedale Romance represents one of Hawthorne's best and most sharply etched works, one that Henry James called...

In the final years of the seventeenth century in a small New England town, the venerable Colonel Pyncheon decides to erect a ponderously oak-framed and spacious family mansion. It occupies the spot where Matthew Maule, `an obscure man', had lived in a log hut, until his execution for witchcraft. From...

'any narrative of human action and adventure - whether we call it history or Romance - is certain to be a fragile handiwork, more easily rent than mended' The fragility - and the durability - of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid-nineteenth century....

Hawthorne's first novel, published anonymously in 1828, was only printed under his name following his death.  During his life, he burned every copy he could find.  But modern readers are apt to be more forgiving of this gothic-tinged romance based on Hawthorne's experiences at Bowdoin College.

This extraordinary fragment, left incomplete at the author's death, hints at the direction Hawthorne's genius may have taken had he lived.  Ironically, the subject is the search—through science rather than magic—for an "elixir of life."  Poignantly, the unfinished manuscript lay upon Hawthorne's coffin during the author's funeral services.