Download or read book Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Milton Meltzer and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the life of the famous American author.

Download or read book Twenty Days with Julian Little Bunny by Papa written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2003-05-31 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks. "At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars. With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life—then and now.

Download or read book Hawthorne written by Brenda Wineapple and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow. In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls. Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual. Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time. Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.

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Download or read book The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Margaret B. Moore and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moore, an author and independent scholar, examines Salem's past and the role of Hawthorne's ancestors in two of the town's great events: the coming of the Quakers in the 1660s and the witchcraft delusion of 1692. She investigates Hawthorne's family, his education before college, and Salem's religious and political influences on him. She also discusses Salem nightlife in Hawthorne's time, his friends and acquaintances, and the role of women influential in his life--particularly Mary Crowninshield Silsbee and Sophia Peabody. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne with Stories Now First Published in this Country written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne with Stories Now First Published in This Country written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Salem is My Dwelling Place written by Edwin Haviland Miller and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of the nineteenth-century New England novelist, examines each of his major works, and describes the social and political background of the period.

Download or read book Memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne - with stories now first published in this country is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1872. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Download or read book Memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne with Stories Now First Published in This Country written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "MEMOIR of Nathaniel Hawthorne" is hardly the right title to stand conspicuously at the head of this volume. Of the whole volume, the latter part, confining the stories, is the more important; of the former part, criticism is a more important-at least a more bulky-ingredient than biography. I do not mean to say that Mr. Page's criticism is bulk and no better. On the contrary, it is the criticism of a good intelligence, and of an intelligence improved for this purpose by what is evidently a warm natural sympathy with the object to which it applies itself. I think Mr. Page's style might be mended; but he has many sentences which define acutely the genius of the master whom he celebrates. And he is probably right in thinking that there is more of an inner biography to be got out of an attentive and sympathetic study of Hawthorne's writings, taken especially in reference to the circumstances and genesis of each, than out of any other materials we are likely to get. Why, then, say "Memoir?" since it was Hawthorne's expressed wish that no formal memoir of him should be written, and since, if the matter that is usually implied by that word, Mr. Page has little more to add to what 'has been mentioned in the sketch of Mr. Fields, and those portions of the "Note-Books" to which it has been thought fit to give publicity? Why not rather say "Study?" That, I think, would be the truer title. There is a good deal, then, in Mr. Page's preliminary study to give us a closer view of this reserved spectator of society, a better understanding of his genius as one in which a legacy of weird traditions out of the past - that, together with an imagination naturally prone to weird and mystical constructions of nature and man-were united with a first-rate power of positive penetration and practical insight into his fellow creatures. The positive penetration and practical insight are employed in the services of the mystifying imagination, and by them its constructions acquire a strange reasonableness, a reality facing towards both worlds. By long brooding and meditating a mystical conception, in the light of a psychological science that has its roots in real observation, a bridge is built between the world of magic and the supernatural - nay, the world of allegory and abstraction itself - and the world of sense and touch. It is upon this bridge that the creations of Hawthorne's genius dance with those gestures, and that reality in strangeness, which so haunt and impress the imagination. Besides seizing clearly on this particular point, the present essayist is interesting throughout in his observations on Hawthorne's ways of work, and the action and reaction of his genius and its successive surroundings. Of the stories collected from magazines, and brought together for the first time for English readers in the other part of the volume, 'Mother Rigby's Pipe' is an entertaining instance of the writer's witch-wife vein in story-telling, applied to a purpose of rather sweeping sarcasm against his kind; 'A Virtuoso's Collection' is a capital piece of ingenious historical inventory, showing an extreme readiness in marshalling the resources of knowledge and memory on a fancy parade ; the Canal Boat is quite in Hawthorne's. finest vein of character and landscape description: they all, it is needless to say, bespeak one of the masters who in his English, has seemed classical with the most case, who has had his thought or image the most clearly before him for as mystical as it might be, and found with the least uncertainty the word to fit it with the most precision and grace. -The Fortnightly Review, Volume 19 [1873]

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Download or read book Memoir of Nathaniel Hawthorne with Stories Now First Published in this Country written by H. A. PAGE (pseud. [i.e. Alexander Hay Japp.]) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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