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The House Of The Seven Gables

The House Of The Seven Gables – Nathanie Hawthorne This book, which the author himself preferred to his previous novel, is of quieter tone than „The Scarlet Letter.“ It is more minutely elaborated, and its pathos depends more on the peculiar temperaments of its characters. The scene is laid in Salem, and the house, which […]

The Marble Faun

The Marble Faun – Nathanie Hawthorne „The Marble Faun “ was sketched in Italy and prepared for publication mainly in Redcar, England, in 1859-60. The Castle of Monte Beni, the ancestral home of Donatello, the human faun, stands for Villa Montanto, where the author made his home for a time in the summer of 1858 […]

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter – Nathanie Hawthorne Like all of Hawthorne’s novels, „The Scarlet Letter“ has but a slender plot and but few characters with an influence on the development of the story. Its great dramatic force depends entirely on the mental states of the actors and their relations to one another, —relations of conscience, — […]