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(0)Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family’s salvation—or its downfall.
Hawthorne called The House of the Seven
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
One sunshiny morning, in the good old times of the town of Boston, a young carver in wood, well known by the name of Drowne, stood contemplating a large oaken log, which it was his purpose to convert into the figure-head of a vessel. And while he discussed within his own mind what sort of shape or similitude it were well to bestow upon this excellent piece of timber, there came into Drowne's workshop a certain Captain Hunnewell, owner and commander...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this little essay, first published in The Token and Atlantic Souvenir (1837), Hawthorne writes of his own reflection—the Gentleman in the Mirror—as it he were man distinct from himself, occasionally glimpsed in various contexts, whose character and behavior could be observed and described. The essay is light in tone, but it not only raises psychological questions about the dangers of self-absorption and narcissism, particular...
7) The Minotaur
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This is one of the popular Greek myths about Theseus and the Minotaur. The Minotaur is a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it. The story is adapted here by Nathaniel Hawthorne for children. This story is taken from “A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys.” It is a pleasure to publish...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
On a fine morning in September we set out on an excursion to Blenheim,—the sculptor and myself being seated on the box of our four-horse carriage, two more of the party in the dicky, and the others less agreeably accommodated inside. We had no coachman, but two postilions in short scarlet jackets and leather breeches with top-boots, each astride of a horse; so that, all the way along, when not otherwise attracted, we had the interesting spectacle...
9) Main Street
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Respectable-looking individual makes his bow and addresses the public. In my daily walks along the principal street of my native town, it has often occurred to me, that, if its growth from infancy upward, and the vicissitude of characteristic scenes that have passed along this thoroughfare during the more than two centuries of its existence, could be presented to the eye in a shifting panorama, it would bean exceedingly effective method of illustrating...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This brief essay, first printed in Pioneer, I (February, 1843), is a fine example of Hawthorne’s mature allegorical style. In it, the narrator and his friend visit the hall of fantasy where they encounter writers and artists (of course), but also planners of cities and railroads, idol momentary dreamers, social reformers, religious cultists, and ends with the most extreme fantasist of all: Mister Miller, patriarch of the Millerites (later the Seventh...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In this short story, Hawthorne sets the scene in a rural valley located in an unnamed U.S. state that resembles New Hampshire. A rock formation in a nearby notch is imagined, by many locals and visitors, to resemble the shape and features of a human face. - From Wikipedia
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"P.'s Correspondence" is presented as an epistolary sketch featuring a lengthy letter dated February 29, 1845, and addressed to an unnamed friend who is publishing it. P. has possibly lost his sanity and, despite not leaving his room, has met a wide variety of famous 19th century figures who he describes. Some of the people he meets were already dead and P. confuses past and present. Among those he encounters in his imagination or claims friendship...
Author
Publisher
Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Young Goodman Brown" is a short story published in 1835 by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in 17th century Puritan New England. In a symbolic fashion, the story follows Young Goodman Brown's journey into self-scrutiny, which results in his loss of virtue and belief. --from Wikipedia
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Long, long ago, when this old world was in its tender infancy, there was a child, named Epimetheus, who never had either father or mother; and, that he might not be lonely, another child, fatherless and motherless like himself, was sent from a far country, to live with him, and be his playfellow and helpmate. Her name was Pandora..."
17) Septimius Felton
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
One of Nathaniel Hawthorne's later works, Septimius Felton is a beguiling and thought-provoking tale of murder most foul. One of a series of the author's works that grapple with themes of immortality, Septimius Felton was written shortly before Hawthorne himself succumbed to a mysterious illness, a fact that lends a dimension of profound poignancy to the story.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession. All of us have our places, and are to move onward under the direction of the Chief Marshal. The grand difficulty results from the invariably mistaken principles on which the deputy marshals seek to arrange this immense concourse of people, so much more numerous than those that train their interminable length through streets and highways in times of political excitement.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Hawthorne's short story, characteristically melancholy, describes Oberon, of whom the narrator says that if any man could be called solitary, Oberon was a "solitary man." Because Hawthorne himself had been called Oberon in college days, observers have speculated about strong autobiographical elements in the story. Young Oberon, disillusioned with the world and suffering elements of madness, quits his native palce for a dissolute life not detailed...