The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s story of adultery and betrayal in colonial America, was first published on this day in 1850.
"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
--from The Scarlet Letter
--from The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece, an iconic fable of guilt and redemption set in Puritan Massachusetts, has long been considered one of the greatest American novels. The story of Hester Prynne—found out in adultery, pilloried by her Puritan community, and abandoned, in different ways, by both her partner in sin and her vengeance-seeking husband—possesses a reality heightened by Hawthorne’s sympathy and his unmixed devotion to his supposedly fallen but fundamentally innocent heroine. The Scarlet Letter rightly deserves its stature as the first great novel written by an American, a work of moral force and narrative power that announced a literature equal to any in the world. READ an excerpt here:http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/77121/the-scarlet-letter/
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel ‘The Scarlet Letter’ was published#onthisday in 1850.
Hawthorne created the character of Hester Prynne, a young woman trying to redeem herself in the face of a Puritanical society in 17th-century Boston. Hester is thought of by many as the first true heroine of American fiction.
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“His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake."
―from "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
―from "A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Six legends of Greek mythology, retold for children by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Included are The Gorgon’s Head, The Golden Touch, The Paradise of Children, The Three Golden Apples, The Miraculous Pitcher, and The Chimaera. In 1838, Hawthorne suggested to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that they collaborate on a story for children based on the legend of the Pandora’s Box, but this never materialized. He wrote A Wonder Book between April and July 1851, adapting six legends most freely from Charles Anton’s A Classical Dictionary (1842). He set out deliberately to “modernize” the stories, freeing them from what he called “cold moonshine” and using a romantic, readable style that was criticized by adults but proved universally popular with children. With full-color illustrations throughout by Arthur Rackham.
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