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The Village Uncle
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The Village Uncle is a short story written by the acclaimed American Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is known for his rantings and writings to take a dark look at humanity.
The Village Uncle is a short story written by the acclaimed American Author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is known for his rantings and writings to take a dark look at humanity.
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Thus I did with Susan as with most other things in my earlier days, dipping her image into my mind and coloring it of a thousand fantastic hues, before I could see her as she really was. Now, Susan, for a sober picture of our village! It was a small collection of dwellings that seemed to have been cast up by the sea, with the rock-weed and marine plants that it vomits after a storm, or to have come ashore among the pipe-staves and other lumber, which had been washed from the deck of an Eastern schooner. There was just space for the narrow and sandy street between the beach in front, and a precipitou. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
The value today for the reader of these tales is the detailed pictures that Hawthorne is able to depict of a life in the past. This particular story is especially so, the Village Uncle being an elderly patriarch of his fishing town, once a fisherman himself, who wooed and wed and built his small cab
“The Village Uncle: an Imaginary Retrospect,” was first published as "The Mermaid; a Reverie," in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir (1835). It is clearly derived from Charles Lamb’s essay “Dream Children: a Reverie” (first American publication in Essays of Elia, 1828), but with significant differences
I don't know, I think I'm not literarily savvy enough to appreciate this,