Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is a short story about a doctor who claims to have been sent water from the Fountain of Youth. Originally published anonymously in 1837, it was later published in Hawthorne's collection Twice-Told Tales, also in 1837. (from Wikipedia)
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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One sunshiny morning, in the good old times of the town of Boston, a young carver in wood, well known by the name of Drowne, stood contemplating a large oaken log, which it was his purpose to convert into the figure-head of a vessel. And while he discussed within his own mind what sort of shape or similitude it were well to bestow upon this excellent piece of timber, there came into Drowne's workshop a certain Captain Hunnewell, owner and commander...
3) Ethan Brand
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
What is the price of knowledge? We often promote lifelong learning as a noble goal because knowledge is power...right? Ethan Brand's tale might change your mind. Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story describes a man who left all he knew to find higher intellect. The cost of succeeding in this lofty goal ends up destroying him.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed author Nathaniel Hawthorne weaves a short tale of a ghost, now old, that had died in youth. As with many such stories, there are things he must do to move beyond his predicament. This story finds him seeing those who roam for centuries and those who finish whatever tasks they were to perform moving on sooner than he would have liked. This ghost story is not so much terror driven as it seems a reflection on the thinking of a ghost.
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Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Italiano
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"La lettera scarlatta", pubblicato nel 1850, è un classico della letteratura statunitense scritto da Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ambientato nel New England puritano nel XVII secolo, il romanzo racconta la storia di Hester Prynne che, dopo aver commesso adulterio, ha una figlia di cui si rifiuta di rivelare il padre, lottando per crearsi una nuova vita di pentimento e dignità. Nell'insieme, Hawthorne esplora i temi della grazia, della legalità e della...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
Français
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À Boston, dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre puritaine du XVIIe siècle, Hester Prynne, jeune épouse d'un vieux savant anglais dont on est maintenant sans nouvelles, a commis le péché d'adultère et refuse de révéler le nom du père de son enfant. Elle est condamné à affronter la vindicte populaire sur le pilori, avec sa fille Pearl de trois mois, puis à porter, brodée sur sa poitrine, la lettre écarlate «A». Elle est bannie et
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The ship in which she came passenger had arrived at Newport, whence Lady Eleanore was conveyed to Boston in the Governor's coach, attended by a small escort of gentlemen on horseback. The ponderous equipage, with its four black horses, attracted much notice as it rumbled through Cornhill, surrounded by the prancing steeds of half a dozen cavaliers, with swords dangling to their stirrups and pistols at their holsters.
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) was an American novelist and short story writer. His biography of Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (1853-1857), was written in 1852 and concludes immediately following Franklin's nomination to be president by the Democratic Party in the summer of that year. Hawthorne and Pierce had been close friends during their college days. (Source: Wikipedia)
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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A young fellow, a tobacco-pedler by trade, was on his way from Morristown, where he had dealt largely with the deacon of the Shaker settlement, to the village of Parker's Falls, on Salmon River. He had a neat little cart painted green, with a box of cigars depicted on each side-panel, and an Indian chief holding a pipe and a golden tobacco-stalk on the rear. The pedler drove a smart little mare and was a young man of excellent character, keen at a...
11) Mrs. Bullfrog
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It makes me melancholy to see how like fools some very sensible people act in the matter of choosing wives. They perplex their judgments by a most undue attention to little niceties of personal appearance, habits, disposition, and other trifles which concern nobody but the lady herself. An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
Description
Never did a pilgrim approach Niagara with deeper enthusiasm than mine. I had lingered away from it, and wandered to other scenes, because my treasury of anticipated enjoyments, comprising all the wonders of the world, had nothing else so magnificent, and I was loath to exchange the pleasures of hope for those of memory so soon. At length the day came. The stagecoach, with a Frenchman and myself on the back seat, had already left Lewiston, and in less...
13) Old News
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
Description
There is a volume of what were once newspapers each on a small half-sheet, yellow and time-stained, of a coarse fabric, and imprinted with a rude old type. Their aspect conveys a singular impression of antiquity, in a species of literature which we are accustomed to consider as connected only with the present moment. Ephemeral as they were intended and supposed to be, they have long outlived the printer and his whole subscription-list, and have proved...
14) Old Ticonderoga
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The greatest attraction, in this vicinity, is the famous old fortress of Ticonderoga; the remains of which are visible from the piazza of the tavern, on a swell of land that shuts in the prospect of the lake. Those celebrated heights, Mount Defiance and Mount Independence, familiar to all Americans in history, stand too prominent not to be recognised, though neither of them precisely correspond to the images excited by their names.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"P.'s Correspondence" is presented as an epistolary sketch featuring a lengthy letter dated February 29, 1845, and addressed to an unnamed friend who is publishing it. P. has possibly lost his sanity and, despite not leaving his room, has met a wide variety of famous 19th century figures who he describes. Some of the people he meets were already dead and P. confuses past and present. Among those he encounters in his imagination or claims friendship...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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From infancy I was under the guardianship of a village parson, who made me the subject of daily prayer and the sufferer of innumerable stripes, using no distinction, as to these marks of paternal love, between myself and his own three boys. The result, it must be owned, has been very different in their cases and mine, they being all respectable men and well settled in life; the eldest as the successor to his father's pulpit, the second as a physician,...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 'Roger Malvin's Burial', Nathaniel Hawthorne tells the story of Reuben Bourne, a man haunted by guilt after he breaks his promise to a dying man. Reuben Bourne lives with the dreadful secret until a terrible sacrifice finally releases him from the past.
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.
This volume includes "Mosses From an Old Manse" and "Snow Image." (Source: Wikipedia)
19) David Swan
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
David Swan is a story of a young man who is on his way to Boston and while waiting for the coach, he falls asleep. While he is sleeping, three major things happen which could have changed his life from then on.
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Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Deutsch
Description
Die Handlung des Romans spielt in einer strenggläubigen Siedlung in Neuengland zu Zeiten des amerikanischen Puritanismus, also gegen Ende des 17. Jahrhunderts. Hawthorne erzählt die Geschichte der Ehebrecherin Hester Prynne, die trotz öffentlicher Anprangerung den Vater ihres illegitimen Kindes nicht nennen will (ihr Ehemann gilt zunächst als auf See verschollen). Zur Strafe muss sie jederzeit ein scharlachrotes 'A' auf ihrer Brust tragen. Der...
