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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:968039502
Author : Harold Schechter
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : IND:30000066152723
In our high-tech, consumerist culture, traditional folklore has found itself revived in an eclectic mix of popular works from B-movies, TV shows, and superhero comics to pulp novels and supermarket tabloids. With a strong emphasis on narrative and very little reliance on aesthetics, these forms of popular entertainment have often defied analysis. The Bosom Serpent fills this gap by revealing the pervasive similarities between traditional folklore motifs and our contemporary forms of amusement. By examining a variety of works and genres from classic fairy tales to supermarket tabloids, The Bosom Serpent demonstrates that today's popular art is no more (or less) than the sort of unpretentious narrative entertainment human beings have always craved - tall tales dressed up to fit the concerns of the time.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798669854324
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne's ancestors to arrive in the colonies. After arriving, William persecuted Quakers. William's son John Hathorne was one of the judges who oversaw the Salem Witch Trials. (One theory is that having learned about this, the author added the 'w' to his surname in his early twenties, shortly after graduating from college.) Hawthorne's father, Nathaniel Hathorne, Sr., was a sea captain who died in 1808 of yellow fever, when Hawthorne was only four years old, in Raymond, Maine. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College at the expense of an uncle from 1821 to 1824, befriending classmates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future president Franklin Pierce. While there he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. Until the publication of his Twice-Told Tales in 1837, Hawthorne wrote in the comparative obscurity of what he called his 'owl's nest' in the family home. As he looked back on this period of his life, he wrote: 'I have not lived, but only dreamed about living.' And yet it was this period of brooding and writing that had formed, as Malcolm Cowley was to describe it, 'the central fact in Hawthorne's career,' his 'term of apprenticeship' that would eventually result in the 'richly meditated fiction.' Hawthorne was hired in 1839 as a weigher and gauger at the Boston Custom House. He had become engaged in the previous year to the illustrator and transcendentalist Sophia Peabody. Seeking a possible home for himself and Sophia, he joined the transcendentalist utopian community at Brook Farm in 1841; later that year, however, he left when he became dissatisfied with farming and the experiment...
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798552861637
Herkimer did know him; but it demanded all the intimate and practical acquaintance with the human face, acquired by modelling actual likenesses in clay, to recognize the features of Roderick Elliston in the visage that now met the sculptor's gaze. Yet it was he. It added nothing to the wonder to reflect that the once brilliant young man had undergone this odious and fearful change during the no more than five brief years of Herkimer's abode at Florence. The possibility of such a transformation being granted, it was as easy to conceive it effected in a moment as in an age. Inexpressibly shocked and startled, it was still the keenest pang when Herkimer remembered that the fate of his cousin Rosina, the ideal of gentle womanhood, was indissolubly interwoven with that of a being whom Providence seemed to have unhumanized.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 197622392X
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. George Herkimer visits his old acquaintance, Roderick Elliston, who is rumored to have a snake residing in his bosom. Herkimer says he brings Elliston a message from Elliston's wife Rosina, but Elliston retreats into his house before receiving it. Elliston and Rosina had separated four years earlier. Soon, people noticed a green tint to his skin and often heard a hissing sound coming from his bosom. Elliston sought the attention of others and pointed out the snakes they possessed within their own bosoms. His relatives placed him in an asylum, but his doctors decided his affliction did not demand confinement. After learning this, Herkimer returns to Elliston, who says his self-contemplation has nurtured the serpent. Rosina appears and suggests that he "forget [himself] in the idea of another." They touch and Roderick is healed.
Author : Caroline Lee Hentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IOWA:31858006965002
Author : Lenard J Cohen
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015049613097
What emerges is a clear understanding of Serbia's enigmatic leader and his influence on the Balkans."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OSU:32435028264349
Author : Shelby Mahurin
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780062878045
New York Times Bestseller * Indiebound Bestseller * An Amazon Best Book of 2019 * B&N's YA Book Club Pick "A brilliant debut, full of everything I love: a sparkling and fully realized heroine, an intricate and deadly system of magic, and a searing romance that kept me reading long into the night. Serpent & Dove is an absolute gem of a book." —Sarah J. Maas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Court of Thorns and Roses series Bound as one, to love, honor, or burn. Book one of a stunning fantasy trilogy, this tale of witchcraft and forbidden love is perfect for fans of Kendare Blake and Sara Holland. Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. As a huntsman of the Church, Reid Diggory has lived his life by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. But when Lou pulls a wicked stunt, the two are forced into an impossible situation—marriage. Lou, unable to ignore her growing feelings, yet powerless to change what she is, must make a choice. And love makes fools of us all. Don't miss Gods & Monsters, the spellbinding conclusion of this epic trilogy!
Author : James McClure
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781569479698
Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi have their hands full. On the same day that an adult entertainer known as Eve is found accidentally strangled to death in her dressing room, her pet python wrapped dead around her neck, a beloved candy shop owner named "Lucky" Siyayo is shot to death at his counter in a botched robbery. The detective duo quickly realize neither death is as simple as it looks on the surface: Lucky Siyayo's cash register was all but empty the day he was murdered, which suddenly throws a whole rash of fatal neighborhood robberies into perspective—were none of them robberies at all? It becomes clear a killer is on the loose, but Zondi and Kramer must figure out what the killer is after. Meanwhile, postmortem analysis reveals that Eve didn't die at the time her ex-boss had stated he'd discovered her body; the more Kramer picks the circumstances apart, the less they make sense. With two very different sets of crimes to solve, Kramer and Zondi set off on treks that take them all over town, from the poorer villages to the sleazy dressing rooms of con artists and pimps to gorgeous steop of the South African countryside in another surefire investigation full of both stirring observations of Apartheid and plenty of mischief. Only one thing is for sure—no one is getting to take his day off this week!
Author : Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035134852
Author : John Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39076000550041
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1410207137
CONTENTS The Christmas Banquet Drowne's Wooden Image The Intelligence-Office Roger Malvin's Burial P.'s Correspondence Earth's Holocaust Sketches from Memory The Old Apple Dealer The Artist of the Beautiful A Virtuoso's Collection
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019577949
Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307741219
Twenty-four of the best short stories by one of the early masters of the form, in the definitive collection edited by acclaimed scholar Newton Arvin. Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the greatest American writers of the nineteenth century, and some of his most powerful work was in the form of fable-like tales that make rich use of allegory and symbolism. The dark beauty and moral force of his imagination are evident in such enduring masterpieces as "Young Goodman Brown," in which a young man who believes he has witnessed a satanic initiation can never see his pious neighbors the same way again; “Rappaccini's Daughter," about a lovely young girl who has been raised in isolation among dangerous poisons; and "The Birthmark," in which a scientist obsessed with perfection destroys the flaw that makes his otherwise flawless wife both beautiful and human.