![]() ![]() “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” A historical allegory set in 17th century New England. He is a brilliant man, a brilliant writer, and his stories are a captivating read.more About life, God, religion, community, guilt, nature, family, isolation, identity. Ultimately, Hawthorne's stories make me think. I have truly come to appreciate his elevated language and old-fashioned writing style, even if it did take me a few stories before I could read him without much difficulty. His grasp on human psychology is mind-boggling. However, I have read the majority, and I must say that LOVE Hawthorne's short stories. Deer man of the dark woods unmasked iso#About life, God, religion, community, guilt, nature, family, iso Confession: I haven't read every story and essay in this collection. ![]() Hillis Miller, Judith Fetterley, Nina Baym, Leo Marx, and Martin Bidney, among others.Ī Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.moreĬonfession: I haven't read every story and essay in this collection. Contributors include Jorge Louis Borges, J. Modern criticism is well represented by twelve essays-four of them new to the Second Edition-on the tales' central issues. "Criticism" offers important contemporary assessments of Hawthorne's tales by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Margaret Fuller (new to the Second Edition), James Russell Lowell, Herman Melville, and Henry James. Also included are pertinent selections from his American Notebooks and relevant letters to, among others, Sophia Peabody, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Margaret Fuller. "The Author on His Work" contains the prefaces Hawthorne wrote for the three collections of tales published during his lifetime- The Old Manse, Twice-Told Tales, and The Snow Image. Heidegger's Experiment." Each tale is accompanied by explanatory annotations. Hutchinson" as well as two tales, "The Wives of the Dead" and "Dr. The Second Edition adds the early biographical sketch "Mrs. "The Author on His Work" contains This revised Norton Critical Edition brings together twenty-three of Hawthorne's tales in all their psychological and moral complexity. ![]()
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