Selected Tales and Sketches Paperback - 1987
by Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Michael J. Colacurcio
Summary
The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.
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With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essential American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly--often wickedly--unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination.
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- Title Selected Tales and Sketches
- Author Nathaniel Hawthorne; Introduction by Michael J. Colacurcio
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 440
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York
- Date 1987-03-03
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780140390575 / 014039057X
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5.1 x 1.3 in (19.30 x 12.95 x 3.30 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Cultural Region: New England
- Library of Congress subjects New England - Social life and customs -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86021247
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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