Download or read book Beyond the Mortal Veil written by David Warren Martin and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-28 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark presence has settled over the county of Bourdagne. Diabolical omens plague the countryside, including bizarre crop failures, mysterious disappearances, and reports of demons stalking the forest at night. A prize mare has given birth to a fully grown mad dog. A statue of Christ has transformed into the image of a demon. In the face of mounting evidence, the rulers of Bourdagne are forced to admit that the devil has come to their little county. In desperation, the countess, Emiline, sends a party to Florence to seek out a mysterious and secretive mage who might be their only hope of uncovering the shadows that have settled over Bourdagne. But is he trustworthy, and can they bear to face the evil that gnaws like a hungry worm at the heart of their realm?

Download or read book Laura written by Barbara L. Estrin and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1994-12-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do men imagine women? In the poetry of Petrarch and his English successors—Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell—the male poet persistently imagines pursuing a woman, Laura, whom he pursues even as she continues to deny his affections. Critics have long held that, in objectifying Laura, these male-authored texts deny the imaginative, intellectual, and physical life of the woman they idealize. In Laura, Barbara L. Estrin counters this traditional view by focusing not on the generative powers of the male poet, but on the subjectivity of the imagined woman and the imaginative space of the poems she occupies. Through close readings of the Rime sparse and the works of Wyatt, Donne, and Marvell, Estrin uncovers three Lauras: Laura-Daphne, who denies sexuality; Laura-Eve, who returns the poet’s love; and Laura-Mercury, who reinvents her own life. Estrin claims that in these three guises Laura subverts both genre and gender, thereby introducing multiple desires into the many layers of the poems. Drawing upon genre and gender theories advanced by Jean-François Lyotard and Judith Butler to situate female desire in the poem’s framework, Estrin shows how genre and gender in the Petrarchan tradition work together to undermine the stability of these very concepts. Estrin’s Laura constitutes a fundamental reconceptualization of the Petrarchan tradition and contributes greatly to the postmodern reassessment of the Renaissance period. In its descriptions of how early modern poets formulate questions about sexuality, society and poetry, Laura will appeal to scholars of the English and Italian Renaissance, of gender studies, and of literary criticism and theory generally.

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Download or read book Greatest Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greatest Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne Immerse yourself in the enchanting and thought-provoking world of Nathaniel Hawthorne with the Greatest Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. This collection brings together a selection of Hawthorne's timeless and masterful short stories, showcasing his exquisite prose, intricate symbolism, and exploration of the human condition. From the iconic 'The Scarlet Letter' to lesser-known gems like 'The Minister's Black Veil' and 'Rappaccini's Daughter,' Hawthorne's works transport readers to a realm of hidden secrets, moral dilemmas, and the complexities of guilt and redemption. Prepare to be captivated by his richly layered narratives, profound insights, and the enduring themes that continue to resonate with readers across generations. Key points: Intricate Symbolism and Allegory: The Greatest Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne highlight Hawthorne's skill in employing intricate symbolism and allegory to convey deeper meanings. His stories are rich with symbolic elements that invite readers to unravel hidden truths and explore moral complexities. Hawthorne's use of symbolism adds depth and layers of interpretation, creating a captivating reading experience that engages both the intellect and the imagination. Exploration of Guilt, Sin, and Redemption: Hawthorne's works often delve into themes of guilt, sin, and the quest for redemption. His characters grapple with the consequences of their actions, confronting the burdens of guilt and the search for spiritual and moral absolution. Hawthorne's narratives delve into the psychological and moral complexities of human nature, exploring the tension between sin and salvation, and inviting readers to reflect on the nature of moral responsibility and the possibilities of redemption. Nuanced Portrayal of Human Psyche and Social Constructs: Hawthorne's stories offer a nuanced portrayal of the human psyche and the intricate webs of social constructs. His characters are often driven by inner conflicts, desires, and societal expectations, revealing the complexities of human motivations and the impact of societal norms on individuals. Hawthorne's narratives explore the interplay between individual identity and social constraints, inviting readers to question the boundaries imposed by society and the consequences of conformity.

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Download or read book THE COMPLETE WORKS OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Illustrated Edition written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 9347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne's complete works has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Novels: Fanshawe The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables The Blithedale Romance The Marble Faun The Dolliver Romance Septimius Felton Doctor Grimshawe's Secret Collections of Short Stories: Twice-Told Tales The Whole History of Grandfather's Chair Biographical Stories Mosses from an Old Manse Wonder Book For Girls and Boys The Snow Image and Other Twice Told Tales Tanglewood Tales For Girls and Boys The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces, Tales and Sketches The Story Teller Sketches in Magazines Poems: Address to the Moon The Darken'd Veil Earthly Pomp Forms of Heroes Go to the Grave My Low and Humble Home The Ocean Essays: The British Matron: A Satire The Ancestral Footstep: Outlines of an English Romance Life Of Franklin Pierce Chiefly About War Matters Our Old Home Autobiographical Writings: Browne's Folly Love Letters (To Miss Sophia Peabody) Letter to the Editor of the Literary Review American Notebooks English Notebooks French and Italian Notebooks Biographies and Reminiscences of Hawthorne: Biography The Life and Genius of Hawthorne by Frank Preston Stearns Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop Hawthorne and His Moses by Herman Melville Fifty Years of Hawthorne My Literary Passions by W. D. Howell Life of Great Authors by H. T. Griswold Yesterday With Authors by J. T. Field Hawthorne and Brook Farm by G. W. Curtis Short Biography Essays and Criticisms on Hawthorne and His Works: Hawthorne by Henry James Jr. Nathaniel Hawthorne by Andrew Lang Nathaniel Hawthorne by G. E. Woodberry A Study of Hawthorne by G. P. Lathrop ...

Download or read book The Lock and Key Library American written by Julian Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Lock and Key Library written by Julian Hawthorne and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large Format for easy reading. a collection of both detective, occultism and magic short stories and articles. Arthur Train, David P. Abbott, Andrew Lang, M. Robert-Houdin and Hereward Carrington contribute.

Download or read book The Sketch the Tale and the Beginnings of American Literature written by Lydia G. Fash and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of the rise of American literature often start in the 1850s with a cluster of "great American novels"—Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Melville’s Moby-Dick and Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. But these great works did not spring fully formed from the heads of their creators. All three relied on conventions of short fiction built up during the "culture of beginnings," the three decades following the War of 1812 when public figures glorified the American past and called for a patriotic national literature. Decentering the novel as the favored form of early nineteenth-century national literature, Lydia Fash repositions the sketch and the tale at the center of accounts of American literary history, revealing how cultural forces shaped short fiction that was subsequently mined for these celebrated midcentury novels and for the first novel published by an African American. In the shorter works of writers such as Washington Irving, Catharine Sedgwick, Edgar Allan Poe, and Lydia Maria Child, among others, the aesthetic of brevity enabled the beginning idea of a story to take the outsized importance fitted to the culture of beginnings. Fash argues that these short forms, with their ethnic exclusions and narrative innovations, coached readers on how to think about the United States’ past and the nature of narrative time itself. Combining history, print history, and literary criticism, this book treats short fiction as a vital site for debate over what it meant to be American, thereby offering a new account of the birth of a self-consciously national literary tradition.

Download or read book Horror Classics 560 Titles in One Edition written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-13 with total page 14033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat presents to you the biggest collection of supernatural, macabre, horror and gothic classics: H. P. Lovecraft: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward At The Mountains of Madness The Colour out of Space The Whisperer in Darkness The Dunwich Horror The Shunned House... Mary Shelley: Frankenstein The Mortal Immortal The Evil Eye... John William Polidori: The Vampyre Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat... Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental... Bram Stoker: Dracula The Jewel of Seven Stars The Lair of the White Worm... Algernon Blackwood: The Willows A Haunted Island A Case of Eavesdropping Ancient Sorceries... Gaston Leroux: The Phantom of the Opera Marjorie Bowen: Black Magic Charles Dickens: The Mystery of Edwin Drood Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Théophile Gautier: Clarimonde The Mummy's Foot Richard Marsh: The Beetle Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles The Silver Hatchet... Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu: Carmilla Uncle Silas... M. R. James: Ghost Stories of an Antiquary A Thin Ghost and Others Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White The Haunted Hotel The Devil's Spectacles E. F. Benson: The Room in the Tower The Terror by Night... Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Birth Mark The House of the Seven Gables... Ambrose Bierce: Can Such Things Be? Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories Arthur Machen: The Great God Pan The Terror... William Hope Hodgson: The House on the Borderland The Night Land M. P. Shiel: Shapes in the Fire Ralph Adams Cram: Black Spirits and White Grant Allen: The Reverend John Creedy Dr. Greatrex's Engagement... Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto William Thomas Beckford: Vathek Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Monk Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights Rudyard Kipling: The Phantom Rickshaw Guy de Maupassant: The Horla Jerome K. Jerome: Told After Supper...

Download or read book Best Short Stories Omnibus Volume 1 written by H. P. Lovecraft and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-04-10 with total page 5717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors. Wisely chosen by the literary critic August Nemo for the book series 7 Best Short Stories, this omnibus contains the stories of the following writers: - H.P. Lovecraft, - Edgar Allan Poe, - Arthur Conan Doyle, - Katherine Mansfield, - Jack London, - Guy de Maupassant, - Virginia Woolf, F. - Scott Fitzgerald, - Edith Wharton, - Stephen Crane, - Susan Glaspell, - Kate Chopin, - Laura E. Richards, - Alice Dunbar-Nelson, - Louisa May Alcott, - Hans Christian Andersen, - Charles Dickens, - Nathaniel Hawthorne, - Henry James, - Mark Twain, - Charlotte Perkins, - Elizabeth Gaskell, - Herman Melville, - James Joyce, - Leo Tolstoy, - Nikolai Gogol, - Anton Chekhov, - Fyodor Dostoevsky, - Maxim Gorky, - Leonid Andreyev, - Ivan Turgenev, - Joseph Conrad, - Aleksander Pushkin, - Robert Louis Stevenson, - Robert E. Howard, - G. K. Chesterton, - Edgar Wallace, - Arthur Machen, - Ambrose Bierce, - Talbot Mundy, - Abraham Merritt, - Zane Grey, - Edgar Rice Burroughs, - Oscar Wilde, - Rudyard Kipling, - E.T.A. Hoffman, - Bram Stoker, - H.G. Wells, - Franz Kafta - Washington Irving.

Download or read book Into the Darkness written by Wilhelm Hauff and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 14039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the Darkness stands as a seminal anthology, bringing together an exceptional array of tales that traverse the spectral corridors of gothic horror, mystery, and the supernatural. This collection boasts an impressive diversity in literary styles, juxtaposing the macabre with the psychological, the fantastic with the eerily realistic. Its range spans from the deep, existential fears tapped by Edgar Allan Poe to the pioneering science fiction horror of H.G. Wells. Noteworthy are the haunted landscapes of Algernon Blackwood and the psychological depths explored by Henry James, which stand as testimonies to the anthologys rich, thematic tapestry and its significant contribution to the literary canon. The anthology does not merely compile stories; it orchestrates a nuanced exploration of the human psyche across different epochs and locales. The contributing authors read like a whos who of the 19th and early 20th centuries literary giants, each bringing their unique voice to the theme of confrontation with the unknown. Collectively, their backgroundsranging from the literary brilliance of Oscar Wilde to the grim realism of Thomas Hardymirror the anthologys overarching investigations into horror and mystery. Their works, ingrained in various cultural and literary movements from Romanticism to the Edwardian ghost story, provide a panoramic view of the evolution of horror and speculative fiction. Through the confluence of these diverse voices, the collection offers a comprehensive historical and cultural context, enriching the readers understanding of the genre. Into the Darkness invites readers on an unparalleled literary journey, providing a unique opportunity to engage with the collective genius of authors whose works have defined and transcended the boundaries of their genres. This anthology is not merely a compendium of tales meant to thrill and chill; it's an educational odyssey through the evolution of horror and suspense literature. Readers are encouraged to delve deep into this collection for its unparalleled insight, the rich dialogue it fosters between epochs and ideologies, and the timeless thrill of exploring humanitys darker inclinations.

Download or read book The Minister s Black Veil Illustrated written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1832 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir. It was also included in the 1836 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, edited by Samuel Goodrich. It later appeared in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories by Hawthorne published in 1837.

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