The House of Hawthorne

The House of Hawthorne PDF Author: Erika Robuck
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0451474651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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"Spanning the years from the 1830s to the Civil War, and moving from Massachusetts to England, Portugal, and Italy, [this book] explores the tension within a famous marriage of two soulful, strong-willed people, each devoted to the other but also driven by a powerful need to explore the far reaches of their creative impulses. It is the story of a forgotten woman in history who inspired one of the greatest writers of American literature"--Dust jacket flap.

The House of Hawthorne

The House of Hawthorne PDF Author: Erika Robuck
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN: 0451474651
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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"Spanning the years from the 1830s to the Civil War, and moving from Massachusetts to England, Portugal, and Italy, [this book] explores the tension within a famous marriage of two soulful, strong-willed people, each devoted to the other but also driven by a powerful need to explore the far reaches of their creative impulses. It is the story of a forgotten woman in history who inspired one of the greatest writers of American literature"--Dust jacket flap.

The Cosmic Courtship

The Cosmic Courtship PDF Author: Julian Hawthorne
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368931687
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Reproduction of the original.

Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa

Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa PDF Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 9781590170427
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne's wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five-year-old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne's notebooks. "At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars. With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little-known, true-life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life—then and now.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne PDF Author: John L. Idol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521391429
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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The collected contemporary reviews of Hawthorne; assembled, edited and introduced for the serious scholar.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter PDF Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Looking for Lorraine

Looking for Lorraine PDF Author: Imani Perry
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807064491
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Nonfiction Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Winner of the 2019 Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achievements, and she had an unflinching commitment to social justice, which brought her under FBI surveillance when she was barely in her twenties. While her close friends and contemporaries, like James Baldwin and Nina Simone, have been rightly celebrated, her story has been diminished and relegated to one work—until now. In 2018, Hansberry will get the recognition she deserves with the PBS American Masters documentary “Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart” and Imani Perry’s multi-dimensional, illuminating biography, Looking for Lorraine. After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways: challenging President Kennedy and his brother to take bolder stances on Civil Rights, supporting African anti-colonial leaders, and confronting the romantic racism of the Beat poets and Village hipsters. Though she married a man, she identified as lesbian and, risking censure and the prospect of being outed, joined one of the nation’s first lesbian organizations. Hansberry associated with many activists, writers, and musicians, including Malcolm X, Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, among others. Looking for Lorraine is a powerful insight into Hansberry’s extraordinary life—a life that was tragically cut far too short. A Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction A 2019 Pauli Murray Book Prize Finalist

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review

The Nathaniel Hawthorne Review PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, American
Languages : en
Pages : 648

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Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter

Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter PDF Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Manga Classics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Nathaniel Hawthorne's powerful tale of forbidden love, shame and revenge comes to life in this manga presentation of the classic story. When Hester Prynne bears an illegitimate child, she is introduced to the ugliness, complexity, and ultimately the strength of the human spirit. Though set in a Puritan community during the Colonial American period, the moral dilemmas of personal responsibility and consuming emotions of guilt, anger, loyalty and revenge are timeless. This beautiful manga retelling of Hawthorne's classic American novel is faithfully adapted by Crystal S. Chan and features stunning artwork by SunNeko Lee which will give old and new readers alike a fresh insight into this tragic saga of Puritan America.

The Scarlet Professor

The Scarlet Professor PDF Author: Barry Werth
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307766527
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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During his thirty-seven years at Smith College, Newton Arvin published groundbreaking studies of Hawthorne, Whitman, Melville, and Longfellow that stand today as models of scholarship and psychological acuity. He cultivated friendships with the likes of Edmund Wilson and Lillian Hellman and became mentor to Truman Capote. A social radical and closeted homosexual, the circumspect Arvin nevertheless survived McCarthyism. But in September 1960 his apartment was raided, and his cache of beefcake erotica was confiscated, plunging him into confusion and despair and provoking his panicked betrayal of several friends. An utterly absorbing chronicle, The Scarlet Professor deftly captures the essence of a conflicted man and offers a provocative and unsettling look at American moral fanaticism.

The Gentle Boy

The Gentle Boy PDF Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

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'The Gentle Boy' is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. He is remembered today for writing titles such as 'The Scarlet Letter' and 'Fanshawe'. Regarding this current work, Hawthorne, who is famous for his high standards—to the point that he actually suppressed 'Fanshawe' due to his disappointment with his writing quality—referred to it as "on the whole, the finest thing he ever wrote".