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Title: Selected Tales and Sketches (Penguin Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Michael J. Colacurcio ISBN: 0-14-039057-X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: excellent selection, excellent introduction
Comment: Hawthorne was, of course, one of (if not *the*) most important writers of 19th Century America and this edition demonstrates why. The level of engagement Hawthorne had with early America, the level of detail in his texts, and the level of scholarship advanced by the editor, demonstrate why Hawthorne is, inded, one of our contemporaries. Nobody can consider him- or herself "knowledgeable" about American literary history or American literature without reading "Young Goodman Brown," "My Kinsaman, Major Molineux," "The Minister's Black Veil," or "The May-Pole of Merry-Mount": these tales engage, variously, in themes of religiosity, national identity or formation, and the desire to re-write American-ness. indeed, these tales, which later influenced writers as disparate as Herman Melville, Henry James and Gertrude Stein, provide the very fabric of "American" literature. Although we have all been beaten over the head by Hawthorne in High School (if not college), an errand into his wilderness is, nonetheless, rewarding, fascinating, and enlightening: Colacurcio's editing and attention to detail (much like the subject of the book!) makes the volume accessible and rewarding.
Rating: 4
Summary: interesting
Comment: there's a lot of interesting content in this book. it opens your mind to a lot of new personalities.
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Title: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville ISBN: 0553213113 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1981 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Blithedale Romance by John Updike, Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0375757201 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 14 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0316184136 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ISBN: 0553211161 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ISBN: 0553210092 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 April, 1965 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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