Nathaniel Hawthorne: Collected Novels (LOA #10): The Scarlet Letter / The House of Seven Gables / The Blithedale Romance / Fanshawe / The Marble FaunLibrary of America, 15. apr. 1983 - 1272 strani The Library of America presents in one giftable collection all 5 of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s world-famous novels—including The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlet Letter. Written in a richly suggestive style that seems remarkably contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novels permeated by his own history as well as America’s. In The House of the Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne alludes to his ancestor’s involvement in the Salem witch trials, as he follows the fortunes of two rival families, the Maules and the Pyncheons. The novel moves across 150 years of American history, from an ancestral crime condoned by Puritan theocracy to reconciliation and a new beginning in the bustling Jacksonian era. Considered Hawthorne’s greatest work, The Scarlet Letter is a dramatic allegory of the social consequences of adultery and the subversive force of personal desire in a community of laws. The transgression of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale, the innate lawlessness of their bastard child Pearl, and the torturous jealousy of the husband Roger Chillingworth eventually erupt through the stern reserve of Puritan Boston. The Scarlet Letter engages the moral and romantic imagination of readers who ponder the question of sexual freedom and its place in the social world. Fanshawe is an engrossing apprentice work that Hawthorne published anonymously and later sought to suppress. Written during his undergraduate years at Bowdoin College, it is a tragic romance of an ascetic scholar’s love for a merchant’s daughter. The Blithedale Romance is a novel about the perils, which Hawthorne knew first-hand, of living in a utopian community. The utilitarian reformer Hollingsworth, the reticent narrator Miles Coverdale, the unearthly Priscilla, and the sensuous Zenobia (purportedly modeled on Margaret Fuller) act out a drama of love and rejection, idealism and chicanery, millennial hope and suicidal despair on an experimental commune in rural Massachusetts. The Marble Faun, Hawthorne’s last finished novel, uses Italian landscapes where sunlight gives way to mythological shadings as a background for mysteries of identity and murder. Its two young Americans, Kenyon and Hilda, become caught up in the disastrous passion of Donatello, an ingenuous nobleman, for the beautiful, mysterious Miriam, a woman trying to escape her past. |
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Contents | 63 |
Fanshawe I | 73 |
Preface to the Second Edition | 119 |
The CustomHouse Introductory | 121 |
The PrisonDoor | 158 |
The Market Place | 160 |
The Recognition | 169 |
The Interview | 178 |
Zenobias DrawingRoom | 772 |
They Vanish | 779 |
An Old Acquaintance | 784 |
Fauntleroy | 791 |
A VillageHall | 801 |
The Masqueraders | 810 |
The Three Together | 818 |
Zenobia and Coverdale | 826 |
Hester at Her Needle | 185 |
Pearl | 194 |
The Governors Hall | 203 |
The ElfChild and the Minister | 210 |
The Leech | 219 |
The Leech and His Patient | 229 |
The Interior of a Heart | 238 |
The Ministers Vigil | 245 |
Another View of Hester | 255 |
Hester and the Physician | 263 |
Hester and Pearl | 269 |
A Forest Walk | 275 |
The Pastor and His Parishioner | 281 |
A Flood of Sunshine | 290 |
The Child at the BrookSide | 296 |
The Minister in a Maze | 303 |
The New England Holiday | 313 |
Preface | 351 |
The Old Pyncheon Family | 355 |
The Little Shop Window | 377 |
The First Customer | 388 |
A Day behind the Counter | 400 |
May and November | 412 |
Maules Well | 426 |
The Guest | 436 |
The Pyncheon of Today | 451 |
Clifford and Phoebe | 466 |
The PyncheonGarden | 477 |
The Arched Window | 489 |
The Daguerreotypist | 501 |
Alice Pyncheon | 513 |
Phoebes Good Bye | 534 |
The Scowl and Smile | 544 |
Cliffords Chamber | 558 |
The Flight of Two Owls | 569 |
Governor Pyncheon | 582 |
Alices Posies | 596 |
The Flower of Eden | 610 |
The Departure | 618 |
Preface | 633 |
Old Moodie | 635 |
Blithedale | 639 |
A Knot of Dreamers | 644 |
The SupperTable | 652 |
Until Bedtime | 659 |
Coverdales SickChamber | 665 |
The Convalescent | 674 |
A Modern Arcadia | 682 |
Hollingsworth Zenobia Priscilla | 692 |
A Visitor from Town | 703 |
The WoodPath | 710 |
Coverdales Hermitage | 718 |
Zenobias Legend | 725 |
Eliots Pulpit | 735 |
A Crisis | 745 |
LeaveTakings | 752 |
The Hotel | 759 |
The BoardingHouse | 766 |
Midnight | 832 |
BlithedalePasture | 840 |
Miles Coverdales Confession | 846 |
Preface | 853 |
Miriam Hilda Kenyon Donatello | 857 |
The Faun | 862 |
Subterranean Reminiscences | 868 |
The Spectre of the Catacomb | 874 |
Miriams Studio | 882 |
The Virgins Shrine | 894 |
Beatrice | 903 |
The Suburban Villa | 910 |
The Faun and Nymph | 916 |
The Sylvan Dance | 923 |
Fragmentary Sentences | 929 |
A Stroll on the Pincian | 935 |
A Sculptors Studio | 947 |
Cleopatra | 955 |
An Æsthetic Company | 962 |
A Moonlight Ramble | 971 |
Miriams Trouble | 980 |
On the Edge of a Precipice | 987 |
The Fauns Transformation | 996 |
The Burial Chaunt IOOI | 1001 |
The Dead Capuchin | 1008 |
The Medici Gardens IOIS | 1015 |
Miriam and Hilda IO20 | 1020 |
The Tower among the Apennines | 1029 |
Sunshine | 1035 |
The Pedigree of Monte Beni | 1043 |
Myths | 1053 |
The OwlTower | 1061 |
On the Battlements | 1068 |
Donatellos Bust | 1077 |
The Marble Saloon | 1083 |
Scenes by the Way | 1092 |
Pictured Windows IIO2 | 1102 |
MarketDay in Perugia IIIO | 1110 |
The Bronze Pontiffs Benediction | 1116 |
Hildas Tower | 1123 |
The Emptiness of Picture Galleries | 1129 |
Altars and Incense | 1138 |
The Worlds Cathedral | 1146 |
Hilda and a Friend | 1154 |
SnowDrops and Maidenly Delights | 1163 |
Reminiscences of Miriam | 1171 |
The Extinction of a Lamp | 1178 |
The Deserted Shrine | 1186 |
The Flight of Hildas Doves | 1195 |
A Walk on the Campagna | 1202 |
The Peasant and Contadina | 1208 |
A Scene in the Corso | 1216 |
A Frolic of the Carnival | 1223 |
Miriam Hilda Kenyon Donatello | 1232 |
Postscript | 1239 |
Chronology | 1243 |
Note on the Texts | 1251 |
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