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Selected Tales and Sketches

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Selected Tales and Sketches

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
482
Release Date:
1987-06-25
Publication Date:
1987-03-03
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
014039057X
ISBN13:
9780140390575
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Maximum Reading Age:
99
Weight:
505 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
197 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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