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- EditoreSignet Classics
- Data di pubblicazione1968
- ISBN 10 0451501535
- ISBN 13 9780451501530
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
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The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
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Signet/New American Library
(1963)
ISBN 10: 0451501535
ISBN 13: 9780451501530
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Descrizione libro paperback. Condizione: Very Good in Wrappers. 1st edition. New York. 1963. February 1963. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 0451501535. Afterword By R.P. Blackmur. 301 pages. paperback. CP153. . keywords: Signet Classic Paperback Literature America 19th Century. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The daydreams which edge toward nightmare; toward our desire to be pursued, cast out. demolished, damned' is how R. P. Blackmur describes the 'mode' of the eighteen stories in this Signet Classic collection By means of weird, yet inescapably convincing fables Hawthorne explores the corroding desires of superior men and women. Thwarted in their pursuit of perfection, endeavoring to escape the reality of their existence, they fall prey to a sudden lust for the Ideal and are unwittingly compelled to commit evils in the name of pride. Of the author's insights into the Puritan's simultaneous need for fulfillment and self - destruction D. H. Lawrence wrote, 'That blue - eyed darling Nathaniel knew disagreeable things in his inner soul. He was careful to send them out in disguise.' Hawthorne's contemporary, Edgar Allan Poe, said of his writing that 'Every word tells, and there is not a word which does not tell.' inventory #32850. Codice articolo z32850
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