Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts was an American short story writer and romance novelist. He is best known for his short stories and two widely read novels:The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables. Along with Herman Melville and Edgar Allan Poe much of Hawthorne's work belongs to the subgenre of Dark Romanticism. Young Hawthorne was a contemporary of fellow transcendentalists Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott. Hawthorne was part of this prominent circle of Massachusetts writers and philosophers. The transcendentalists believed in the “inherent goodness of both people and nature.” Hawthorne's style “is like purity itself.” Hawthorne's highest regarded short stories include My Kinsman, Major Molineaux , Young Goodman Brown, Feathertop, and The Minister's Black Veil . For the record, Hawthorne died in his sleep in 1864 during a tour of the White Mountains in Plymouth, New Hampshire. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑(1804-1864),美国十九世纪最杰出的浪漫主义小说家,以独具一格的短篇小说享誉美国文坛。霍桑是心理小说的开创者,擅长剖析人的“内心”。他着重探讨道德和罪恶的问题,主张通过善行和自忏来洗刷罪恶、净化心灵,从而得到拯救。然而霍桑并非全写黑暗,他在揭露社会罪恶和人的劣根性的同时,对许多善良的主人公寄予极大的同情。正如他的朋友、伟大作家麦尔维尔(Herman Melville)所指出的,霍桑的黑暗使在这黑暗中不停前进的黎明显得更加明亮。霍桑对美国文学的发展做出了很大的贡献。他对亨利·詹姆斯、福克纳及马拉默德等后代作家的影响显而易见。 霍桑的作品想象丰富、结构严谨。他除了进行心理分析与描写外,还运用了象征主义手法。他的构思精巧的意象,增添了作品的浪漫色彩,加深了寓意。代表作有《牧师的黑面纱》、《年轻的布朗先生》、《拉帕西尼的女儿》等。长篇代表作品《红字》已成为世界文学的经典之一,是美国文学发展史上第一部象征主义小说。 精选霍桑46篇经典短篇小说汇集成册,以英文原版形式出版,同时提供配套英文朗读供读者免费下载,边听边读,更好地提升英文阅读水平。
01 The Ambitious Guest 02 Beneath An Umbrella 03 The Birth-mark 04 Buds and Bird-Voices 05 Chippings With a Chisel 06 David Swan 07 Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment 08 Drowne’s Wooden Image 09 Edward Fane’s Rosebud 10 The Bosom-Serpent 11 Endicott and the Red Cross 12 Fancy’s Show-box 13 Fire Worship 14 Footprints on the Sea-shore 15 The Gray Champion 16 The Great Carbuncle 17 The Hall of Fantasy 18 The Haunted Mind 19 The Hollow of the Three Hills 20 The Intelligence Office 21 The Lily’s Quest 22 Little Annie’s Ramble 23 The Maypole of Merry Mount 24 The Minister’s Black Veil 25 Monsieur du Miroir 26 Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe 27 Mrs. Bullfrog 28 The Old Apple-Dealer 29 Passages from a Relinquished Work 30 The Procession of Life 31 The Prophetic Pictures 32 A Rill From the Town-pump 33 A Select Party 34 The Shaker Bridal 35 Sights From A Steeple 36 The Sister-years 37 Snowflakes 38 Sunday at Home 39 The Threefold Destiny 40 The Toll-Gatherer’s Day 41 The Village Uncle 42 The Vision of the Fountain 43 Wakefield 44 The Wedding-knell 45 The White Old Maid 46 Young Goodman Brown
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