The Celestial Railroad
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Allegories |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Allegories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2006-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780451530202 |
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 the corroding desires of lust for perfection. Then they unwittingly commit evils—against themselves and others—in the name of pride. Edgar Allan Poe noted of Hawthorne’s writing: “Every word tells, and there is not a word which does not tell.”
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2015-07-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781331866275 |
Excerpt from The Celestial Railroad Hawthorne's bright and witty parody upon Bunyan's immortal allegory, "The Pilgrim's Progress," first appeared in the Democratic Review. The satire was so keen and witty and at the same time so genial in tone, that it was republished by the American Sunday-school Union a few months after its first appearance under the title "A Visit to the Celestial City." Hawthorne's name was not attached to it. He was not then widely known as an author. As one of his biographers says of him at this period, "He wrote stories and published them in magazines, but nobody knew who wrote them. ...For a long time it was supposed they were written by a woman." About three years after the story was issued by the Union, it was reprinted in a London edition of "Mosses from an Old Manse," and four years later still in an American edition of the same book. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : Elibron.com |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Short stories |
ISBN | : 9781421224732 |
Author | : S. David Wilson |
Publisher | : S. David Wilson |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2024-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This revised annotated work explores the rise and fall of the steam age as it shaped the life of an archetypal industrial family. Particular emphasis is placed on the railroad and shipbuilding industries in Britain and the United States.
Author | : Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2017-06-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781548274108 |
"The Celestial Railroad" is short story written as an allegory by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. In it, Hawthorne parodies the seventeenth-century book The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, which portrays a Christian's spiritual "journey" through life. In this story, the pilgrim journeys by iron horse rather than by foot, the burden of sin that Bunyan portrays is pulled by the same train...
Author | : Peter Ho Davies |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2016-09-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544263782 |
An NPR Best Book of the Year: “The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I’ve read about the Chinese American experience.” —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts Winner, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * Winner, Chautauqua Prize *Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize * A New York Times Notable Book * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. “Intense and dreamlike . . . filled with quiet resonances across time.” —The New Yorker “Riveting and luminous . . . Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.” —Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award-winning author of Sing, Unburied, Sing “A moving, often funny, and deeply provocative novel about the lives of four very different Chinese Americans as they encounter the myriad opportunities and clear limits of American life . . . gorgeously told.” —Chang-rae Lee, Buzzfeed “A poignant, cascading four-part novel . . . Outstanding.” —David Mitchell, The Guardian