Young Goodman Brown and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0192836005 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, April 1999
Gathers twenty of Hawthorne's tales of Puritan New England dealing with superstition, guilt, moral pride, and the supernatural
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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), author of The Scarlet Letter, is one of the greatest American writers and an early master of the short story.This selection of twenty of Hawthorne's most important tales begins with 'The Gentle Boy', published in 1832, and concludes with 'Ethan Brand', which first appeared in 1850. Rich in allegory and imaginative symbolism, the tales illustrate the development of Hawthorne's preoccupations with the themes of guilt and secrecy, intellectual and moral pride, with the aesthetic representation of the supernatural, and with the decadence (as he perceived it) of New England Puritanism.This edition notes all the significant textual changes made by the author to the tales, and provides detailed explanatory notes on Hawthorne's sources and allusions, taking into account all recent Hawthorne scholarship.
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