Little Masterpieces: Dr. Heidergger's Experiment, the Birthmark, Ethan Brand, Wakefield, Drowne's Wooden Image, the Ambitious Guest, the Great Stone Face, the Gray Champion. E-book. Formato PDF - 9780259660699

Un ebook di Hawthorne Nathaniel edito da Forgotten Books, 2017

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Hawthorne made three collections of his short stories and sketches: "Twice-Told Tales," "Mousses from an Old Manse," and "The Snow Image and Other Tales." The prefaces to these volumes express, with characteristic charm, the author's dissatisfaction with his handiwork. No critic has pointed out so clearly as Hawthorne himself has pointed out so clearly as Hawthorne himself the ineffectiveness of some of the "Twice-Told Tales"; he thinks that the "Mosses from an Old Manse" afford no solid basis for a literary reputation; and his comment upon the earlier and later work gathered indiscriminately into his final volume is that "the ripened autumnal fruit tastes but little better than the early windfalls."

It must be remembered that the collections were made in desultory fashion. They included some work that Hawthorne had outgrown even when the first volume was published, such as elaborate exercises in description and fanciful allegories, excellently composed but without substance.

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Titolo: Little Masterpieces: Dr. Heidergger's Experiment, the Birthmark, Ethan Brand, Wakefield, Drowne's Wooden Image, the Ambitious Guest, the Great Stone Face, the Gray Champion. E-book. Formato PDF
Autore: Hawthorne Nathaniel
Editore: Forgotten Books
Data di Pubblicazione: 2017
Formato: PDF
Protezione: nessuna
ISBN-13: 9780259660699