The Celestial Railroad
And Other Stories
$16.23
- Paperback
318 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2006
Summary
Of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s insight into the Puritan’s simultaneous need for fulfillment and self-destruction, D. H. Lawrence wrote, “Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.”
By means of artfully crafted and compelling tales, Hawthorne explored the destinies and concerns of early American settlers and citizens. In several of the stories in this collection, characters who hold themselves apart from their fellow man fall prey to th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451530202 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0451530209 |
| Author: | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Signet Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 318 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 163g |
| Dimensions: | 172mm x 105mm |
| Series: | Signet Classics (Hardcover) |
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“He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”-Henry James
“He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.”—Henry James
About The Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ross C. Murfin is a professor of English at and former provost of Southern Methodist University. He has also taught at the University of Virginia, Yale University, and the University of Miami, where he was Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of such books as Swinburne, Hardy, Lawrence and the Burden of Belief and The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence- Texts and Contexts. He is coauthor, with Supryia Ray, of The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms (second edition) and series editor of Bedford/St. Martin’s popular Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism.
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