Twice Told Tales Hawthorne Nathaniel
Twice Told Tales Hawthorne Nathaniel "The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. With a rare purity of style, these tales chronicle both familiar life and haunted specters through a lens of subtle…
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Twice Told Tales Hawthorne Nathaniel
"The style of Hawthorne is purity itself. With a rare purity of style, these tales chronicle both familiar life and haunted specters through a lens of subtle mysticism and deep melancholy. His tone is singularly effective-wild, plaintive, thoughtful, and in full accordance with his themes."- Edgar Allan Poe "To this little book we would say 'Live ever, sweet, sweet book.' It comes from the hand of a man of genius."-Henry Wadsworth LongfellowNathaniel Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales is a spectacularly rich collection of thirty-nine penetrating stories.
The title is a nod to Shakespeare's line "Life is a tedious as a twice-told tale/Vexing the ear of a drowsy man."; it furthermore is Hawthorne's acknowledgment that these stories all had been previously published in various magazines and newspapers of the day.Never one to shy from exploring themes of