Author: L. M. Pimenta
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418430313
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Rose Hawthorne was the youngest of three children of the famous American novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne. She had a rich cultured childhood, followed by the most desirable social life among the elite of the 1800's. The story unfolds when an unacceptable occurrence turns Rose's wondrous colorful life completely around. She was made aware that poor people diagnosed with incurable cancer and no one to care for them they were deported to Blackwell's Island (a place of not return). Rose makes a tearful vow, she must do something to abolish this inhuman plight of the poor with cancer. After completing a nursing course, Rose makes provisions to take care of the cancerous poor. How soon does her finances run dry and she also becomes poor with several patients to provide for? Where does she seek help? Where does needed clothing, linens, and medicines come from? When do her celebrity friends shun her? Why is she called an imposter? How can Rose arrange for a decent burial for her deceased? Why is she being evicted time and again? When does Alice Huber become her first live-in volunteer? How does the dream of Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, New York, become a reality?
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the December 1844 issue of The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, and later in the 1846 collection Mosses from an Old Manse. It is about Giacomo Rappaccini, a medical researcher in medieval Padua who grows a garden of poisonous plants. He brings up his daughter to tend the plants, and she becomes resistant to the poisons, but in the process she herself becomes poisonous to others. The traditional story of a poisonous maiden has been traced back to India, and Hawthorne's version has been adopted in contemporary works.
Author: Katherine Burton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Rappaccini's Daughter (Gothic Classic)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "Does this garden belong to the house?" asked Giovanni. "Heaven forbid, signor, unless it were fruitful of better pot herbs than any that grow there now," answered old Lisabetta. "No; that garden is cultivated by the own hands of Signor Giacomo Rappaccini, the famous doctor, who, I warrant him, has been heard of as far as Naples." (Rappaccini's Daughter) "Rappaccini's Daughter" is the story of Beatrice, the daughter of Giacomo Rappaccini, who is in turn a medical researcher in medieval Padua and grows a garden of poisonous plants. American novelist and short story writer Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804-1864) writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. Hawthorne has also written a few poems which many people are not aware of. His works are considered to be part of the Romantic movement and, more specifically, Dark romanticism. His themes often centre on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mythology, Classical
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: NYRB Classics
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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""At about six o'clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me." Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry-picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ("It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure"), a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ("I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe"). And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late-night discussion of eternity over cigars."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Sarah Bird Wright
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438108532
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 401
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Offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth. This reference also provides entries on Hawthorne's family, friends - ranging from Herman Melville to President Franklin Pierce - publishers, and critics.
Author: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Author: T. Walter Herbert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520201558
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 355
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The marriage of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne—for their contemporaries a model of true love and married happiness—was also a scene of revulsion and combat. T. Walter Herbert reveals the tragic conflicts beneath the Hawthorne's ideal of domestic fulfillment and shows how their marriage reflected the tensions within nineteenth-century society. In so doing, he sheds new light on Hawthorne's fiction, with its obsessive themes of guilt and grief, balked feminism and homosexual seduction, adultery, patricide, and incest.
Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307741214
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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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.
