Selected Tales And Sketches

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1987-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101077801

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Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

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.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1322688370

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Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Hyatt Howe Waggoner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1325603164

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Selected Tales and Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne,Hyatt Howe Waggoner Pdf

Author : Robert Walser
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466834958

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Selected Stories by Robert Walser Pdf

In her preface to Robert Walser's Selected Stories, Susan Sontag describes Walser as "a good-humored, sweet Beckett." The more common comparison is to "a comic Kafka." Both formulations effectively describe the reading experience in these stories: the reader is obviously in the presence of a mind-bending genius, but one characterized by a wry, buoyant voice, as apparently cheerful as it is disturbing. Walser is one of the twentieth century's great modern masters—revered by everyone from Walter Benjamin to Hermann Hesse to W. G. Sebald—and Selected Stories gives the fullest display of his talent. "He is most at home in the mode of short fiction," according to J. M. Coetzee in The New York Review of Books. The stories "show him at his dazzling best."

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Digireads.Com
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1420928511

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Selected Tales and Sketches (the Best Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne) by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

"Selected Tales and Sketches" is a collection of the best short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Collected here are the following tales: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Minister's Black Veil, The May-Pole of Merry Mount, Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe, Wakefield, The Prophetic Pictures, The Hollow of the Three Hills, Dr. Heidegger's Experiment, Legends of the Province-House: I.-Howe's Masquerade, II.-Edward Randolph's Portrait, III.-Lady Eleanore's Mantle, IV.-Old Esther Dudley, The Haunted Mind, The Ambitious Guest, Night Sketches, Endicott and the Red Cross, The Birth-mark, Young Goodman Brown, Rappaccini's Daughter, The Hall of Fantasy, The Celestial Rail-road, Feathertop: A Moralized Legend, Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent, The Christmas Banquet, Roger Malvin's Burial, Earth's Holocaust, Passages from a Relinquished Work, The Artist of the Beautiful, The Snow Image, The Great Stone Face, Ethan Brand, The Man of Adamant, The Wives of the Dead, My Kinsman, Major Molineux, Alice Doane's Appeal, Mrs. Hutchinson, Sir William Phips, and The Notch of the White Mountains.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hawthorne: Selected Tales and Sketches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Edgar Allan Poe,Thomas Ollive Mabbott,Eleanor D. Kewer
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Fantasy literature, American
ISBN : 0252069226

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Tales and Sketches: 1831-1842 by Edgar Allan Poe,Thomas Ollive Mabbott,Eleanor D. Kewer Pdf

Promising spine-tingling delights and sleepless nights, this annotated edition of Tales and Sketches is a treasure trove for scholars and general readers alike, confirming Edgar Allan Poe's status as one of literary art's "most brilliant but erratic stars". This volume is the first of two, edited by the consummate Poe scholar Thomas Ollive Mabbott, collecting all the tales of a master of the uncanny, the unnerving, and the terrifying. Each volume is enriched with Mabbott's detailed and authoritative notes on sources, the history and collation of all known texts authorized by Poe, and variants of Poe's "final" version. Marrying grotesque inventiveness with superb plot construction, Poe's strikingly original tales often use only one main character and one main incident. In many of them, horror and suspense, revenge and torture, are laced with hilarious satire. Volume I includes "Ms. Found in a Bottle", the horrific "Berenice", "Ligeia" (which Poe considered his finest tale), "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and one of his most famous stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher".

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne,Julian Hawthorne
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1020162813

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Tales And Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne,Julian Hawthorne Pdf

Experience the haunting and imaginative world of the Hawthorne dynasty in this collection of short stories and sketches by Julian and Nathaniel Hawthorne. From the eerie allegories of Nathaniel to the gritty realism of Julian, these tales offer a kaleidoscopic view of human nature and its aspirations, fears, and foibles. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Detective and mystery stories, American
ISBN : 5949620291

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Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Author : Henryk Sienkiewicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015019477358

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Charcoal Sketches, and Other Tales by Henryk Sienkiewicz Pdf

These novellas continue Sienkiewicz's close examination of Polish culture and history, providing a rich perspective for modern readers.--Library Journal.

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Americans
ISBN : NYPL:33433074819354

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Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent by Washington Irving Pdf

Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191605215

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Selected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe Pdf

Since their first publication in the 1830s and 1840s, Edgar Allan Poe's extraordinary Gothic tales have established themselves as classics of horror fiction and have also created many of the conventions which still dominate the genre of detective fiction. Yet, as well as being highly enjoyable, Poe's tales are works of very real intellectual exploration. Abandoning the criteria of characterization and plotting in favour of blurred boundaries between self and other, will and morality, identity and memory, Poe uses the Gothic to question the integrity of human existence. Indeed, Poe is less interested in solving puzzles or in moral retribution than in exposing the misconceptions that make things seem `mysterious' in the first place. Attentive to the historical and political dimensions of these very American tales, this new critical edition selects twenty-four tales and places the most popular - `The Fall of the House of Usher', `The Masque of the Red Death', `The Murders in the Rue Morgue; and `The Purloined Letter' - alongside less well-known travel narratives, metaphysical essays and political satires. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Jack Kerouac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0142002151

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Book of Sketches by Jack Kerouac Pdf

In 1952 and 1953 as he wandered around America, Jack Kerouac jotted down spontaneous prose poems, or "sketches" as he called them, on small notebooks that he kept in his shirt pockets. The poems recount his travels—New York, North Carolina, Lowell (Massachusetts, Kerouac’s birthplace), San Francisco, Denver, Kansas, Mexico—observations, and meditations on art and life. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story—or travelogue—appears, complete in itself. Published for the first time, Book of Sketches offers a luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse of one of the most original voices of the twentieth century at a key time in his literary and spiritual development.

Author : Sait Faik Abasiyanik
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671084

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A Useless Man by Sait Faik Abasiyanik Pdf

Sait Faik Abasiyanik was born in Adapazari in 1906 and died of cirrhosis in Istanbul in 1954. He wrote twelve books of short stories, two novels, and a book of poetry. His stories celebrate the natural world and trace the plight of iconic characters in society: ancient coffeehouse proprietors and priests, dream-addled fishermen adn poets of the Princes' Isles, lovers and wandering minstrels of another time. Many stories are loosely autobiographical and deal with Sait Faik's frustration with social convention, the relentless pace of westernization, and the slow but steady ethnic cleansing of his city. His fluid, limpid surfaces might seem to be in keeping with the restrictions that the architects of the new Republic placed on language and culture, but the truth lies in their dark, subversive undercurrents. Sait Faik donated his estate to the Daruşafaka foundation for orphans, and this foundation has since been committed to promoting his work. His former family home on Burgazada was recently restored, and now functions as a museum honoring his life and work. He is still greatly revered: Turkey's most prestigious short story award carries his name and nearly every Turk knows by heart a line or a story by Sait Faik.

Author : Pete Hamill
Publisher : Kodansha Amer Incorporated
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Americans
ISBN : 4770019505

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Tokyo Sketches by Pete Hamill Pdf