The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, gothic novel, and travel guide. Hawthorne was inspired to write his romance when he saw the Faun of...
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool.
In these writings, he displays his humor, his empathetic nature, his pride in his country, and sometimes his sharp judgment of others. He shares with us the difficulties of being a consul...
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Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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Rappaccini's Daughter is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation. Beatrice is confined to the lush and locked gardens filled with...
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In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a...
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In this story the popluation get the idea to purify the Earth of all that is wrong with it and build a bonfire. They start burning all the trappings of royalty and go on from there until virtually nothing is left--except the main problem.
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Fire worship on the outside is a story of the increasing popularity of the cast iron stove, but deep down it symbolizes the industrial colonization of the modern american home and therefore stepping away from what was faith and loyalty to god.
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The Old Manse is an example of Hawthorne's ability to write and ramble in such an eloquent way. It is more in the way an essay as opposed to a traditional short story
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A Select Party is a short story written by 19th century american author Nathaniel Hawthorne whose views on humanity were always in a negative light.
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'The Christmas Banquet' is a classic example of Hawthorne's preoccupation with the darker side of human nature. This quick read has a man giving cash to host ten of the most miserable souls in his will, and each is worse than the man who organized it.
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