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Hawthorne
Author | : Brenda Wineapple |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2012-01-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307808660 |
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Handsome, reserved, almost frighteningly aloof until he was approached, then playful, cordial, Nathaniel Hawthorne was as mercurial and double-edged as his writing. “Deep as Dante,” Herman Melville said. Hawthorne himself declared that he was not “one of those supremely hospitable people who serve up their own hearts, delicately fried, with brain sauce, as a tidbit” for the public. Yet those who knew him best often took the opposite position. “He always puts himself in his books,” said his sister-in-law Mary Mann, “he cannot help it.” His life, like his work, was extraordinary, a play of light and shadow. In this major new biography of Hawthorne, the first in more than a decade, Brenda Wineapple, acclaimed biographer of Janet Flanner and Gertrude and Leo Stein (“Luminous”–Richard Howard), brings him brilliantly alive: an exquisite writer who shoveled dung in an attempt to found a new utopia at Brook Farm and then excoriated the community (or his attraction to it) in caustic satire; the confidant of Franklin Pierce, fourteenth president of the United States and arguably one of its worst; friend to Emerson and Thoreau and Melville who, unlike them, made fun of Abraham Lincoln and who, also unlike them, wrote compellingly of women, deeply identifying with them–he was the first major American writer to create erotic female characters. Those vibrant, independent women continue to haunt the imagination, although Hawthorne often punishes, humiliates, or kills them, as if exorcising that which enthralls. Here is the man rooted in Salem, Massachusetts, of an old pre-Revolutionary family, reared partly in the wilds of western Maine, then schooled along with Longfellow at Bowdoin College. Here are his idyllic marriage to the youngest and prettiest of the Peabody sisters and his longtime friendships, including with Margaret Fuller, the notorious feminist writer and intellectual. Here too is Hawthorne at the end of his days, revered as a genius, but considered as well to be an embarrassing puzzle by the Boston intelligentsia, isolated by fiercely held political loyalties that placed him against the Civil War and the currents of his time. Brenda Wineapple navigates the high tides and chill undercurrents of Hawthorne’s fascinating life and work with clarity, nuance, and insight. The novels and tales, the incidental writings, travel notes and children’s books, letters and diaries reverberate in this biography, which both charts and protects the dark unknowable core that is quintessentially Hawthorne. In him, the quest of his generation for an authentically American voice bears disquieting fruit.
Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author | : Moncure Daniel Conway |
Publsiher | : New York, A. Lovell & Company; London, W. Scott [c1890] |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : UOM:39015065458823 |
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Salem is My Dwelling Place
Author | : Edwin Haviland Miller |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 652 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0877453810 |
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Traces the life of the nineteenth-century New England novelist, examines each of his major works, and describes the social and political background of the period.
The Life of Franklin Pierce
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publsiher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1540725014 |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American author that contributed significantly to the dark romanticism genre. Hawthorne was the great grandson of John Hathorne, one of the judges in the Salem witch trials. To hide the shame Nathaniel added the "w" to his last name. Many of Hawthorne's works are set in the New England area and feature the moral allegories found in the time of the Puritans. The Life of Franklin Pierce, published in 1852, is a short biography of the American president. Hawthorne was friends with Pierce going back to their college days and the book is notable for its insight into Pierce's life.
Life of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author | : Milton Meltzer |
Publsiher | : Twenty-First Century Books |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780761334590 |
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Learn about the life of the famous American author.
The Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author | : Margaret B. Moore |
Publsiher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0826213316 |
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Moore, an author and independent scholar, examines Salem's past and the role of Hawthorne's ancestors in two of the town's great events: the coming of the Quakers in the 1660s and the witchcraft delusion of 1692. She investigates Hawthorne's family, his education before college, and Salem's religious and political influences on him. She also discusses Salem nightlife in Hawthorne's time, his friends and acquaintances, and the role of women influential in his life--particularly Mary Crowninshield Silsbee and Sophia Peabody. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR