The White Old Maid

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"The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales")" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an example of the author's more experimental works. In this book, Hawthorne presents two storylines. The first is gothic in nature and describes the body of a deceased young man with two beautiful women at his side. In the second story, these two beautiful women are once again reunited in their old age. Part horror and part reflection, this tale shows the range of this beloved author.

The White Old Maid was written in the year 1837 by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book is one of the most popular novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne, and has been translated into several other languages around the world. This book is published by Booklassic which brings young readers closer to classic literature globally.

Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway, from Horton Foote to Disney, from Rembrandt to Alice Neale, while also comparing the attitudes toward aging in Native American, African American, and Anglo American literature. The examples demonstrate that long before gerontologists endorsed a Janus-faced model of aging, artists were celebrating the diversity of the elderly, challenging the bio-medical equation of senescence with inevitable senility. Underlying all of this discussion is the firm conviction that cultural texts construct as well as encode the conventional perceptions of their society; that literature, the arts, and the media not only mirror society's mores but can also help to create and enforce them.