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by: Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780486270609
ISBN: 0486270602
Label: Dover Publications
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: February 05, 1992
Publisher: Dover Publications
Sales Rank: 65598
Studio: Dover Publications
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Product Description:
Choice collection of short fiction by one of the masters of the genre. In addition to the title story, this volume includes 'The Birthmark,' 'Rappaccini’s Daughter,' 'Roger Malvin’s Burial,' 'The Artist of the Beautiful,' 'Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment' and 'My Kinsman, Major Molineux.' Tales deal with scientific experiment, witchcraft, revenge, more.
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Rating:  - Good Condition
This product came on time, was in good condition and inexpensive. My school bookstore wanted me to pay twice as much as I paid at Amazon. Save your money and buy this book at Amazon.
Rating:  - Virtue vs. vice and fabulous storytelling
An incredible bargain and wonderful tales to boot, vice and virtue were never more complex or interwoven as in these Hawthorne tales. All of his stories speak to the irreversible errors of man, well not altogether irreversible. There is redemption and resolve but not for all his characters. If you are looking for spiritually driven fabulously intriguing stories, look no further. Edgar Allan Poe has a fierce rival.
Rating: - Witchcraft, Revenge, Guilt, Artistic Obsession, and Humor - Distinctly Hawthorne
In reviewing Twice-Told Tales, Edgar Allen Poe wrote: "Mr. Hawthorne's distinctive trait is invention, creation, imagination, and originality. It would be a matter of some difficulty to designate the best of these tales; we repeat, without exception, they are beautiful."
This little Dover Thrift Edition - Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories - offers seven interesting and varied tales by Hawthorne. Actually, only one, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment (1837), is found in Twice-Told ... Read More
Rating: - The Artist's consciousness...the soul's examination...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, as a writer and artist, has a
unique effect upon me as the reader. I am a bit put off
by his keep-your-distance...this is my stage, my characters,
my plot...you may observe, learn, but not participate
as experiencer...approach. Thus he is the master artist,
displaying his wares...and they are wondrous. The other
effect of Hawthorne upon me, is that I seem to feel that
his works are as carefully crafted, visualized, and
fatefully fulfilled ... Read More
Rating: - A potent sampling of Hawthorne's tales
"Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories" brings together 7 tales by the great United States author Nathaniel Hawthorne. These stories date from the 1830s and 1840s, and reveal Hawthorne, well-known today as a novelist, to be a talented practitioner of the short story genre.
These are stories of weird science, romantic and professional obsession, thwarted love, witchcraft, guilt, and the quest for beauty. Irony and tragedy mark many of the tales. Hawthorne takes us from the rugged American ... Read More
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