Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Release : 1987-03-03
Genre : Fiction
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Selected Tales and Sketches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selected Tales and Sketches write by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This book was released on 1987-03-03. Selected Tales and Sketches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly - often wickedly - unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader's imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.