A classic of american literature, "the Blithedale Romance" is a compelling narrative set against the backdrop of many important social and political issues of the 19th century. The story concerns the freindship of the four at the commune, which starts intensely during the spring and summer but as autumn approaches begins to disintegrate towards a tragic end.
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist Penguin Classics
With more than 1, 700 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. In the fragmentary sequel, memoirs, Brown explores Carwin’s bizarre history as a manipulated disciple of the charismatic utopian Ludloe. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world.
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Selected Tales and Sketches Penguin Classics
And, as Michael J. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, the Revolution. The short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. Written in the 1820s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne's longer works: The Scarlet Letter, 30s, and 40s, The House of the Seven Gables and The Blithedale Romance.
With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness.
Edgar Huntly, or, Memoirs of a Sleepwalker
Woman in the Nineteenth Century Dover Thrift Editions
She was also one of the few female members of the prestigious Transcendentalist movement, whose ranks included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and many other prominent New England intellectuals of the day. Published in 1843, this essay was entitled "The Great Lawsuit: Man versus Men, Woman versus Women.
First published in book form in 1845, woman in the nineteenth century was correctly perceived as the controversial document that it was: receiving acclaim and achieving popular success in some quarters the first printing sold out within a week, at the same time that it inspired vicious attacks from opponents of the embryonic women's movement.
Although her notion of basic rights certainly includes those of an educational, and legal nature, economic, it is intellectual expansion and changes in the prevailing attitudes towards women by men and women that Fuller cherishes far above the superficial manifestations of liberation. A classic of feminist thought that helped bring about the Seneca Falls Women's Convention three years after its publication, Woman in the Nineteenth Century inspired her contemporaries Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
Anthony to speak of fuller as possessing "more influence upon the thought of American women than any woman previous to her time. ". As co-editor of the transcendentalist journal, the Dial, Fuller was able to give voice to her groundbreaking social critique on woman's place in society, the genesis of the book that was later to become Woman in the Nineteenth Century.
Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories Penguin Classics Edition
Sealts, Jr. And the authoritative Northwestern-Newberry text of The Piazza Tales. With more than 1, 500 titles, penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. A new, and profound beauty though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, definitive edition of Herman Melville’s virtuosic short stories—American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. Also including the piazza tales in full, this collection demonstrates why Melville stands not only among the greatest writers of the nineteenth century, but also as one of our greatest contemporaries.
This penguin classics edition features the Reading Text of Billy Budd, Sailor, as edited from a genetic study of the manuscript by Harrison Hayford and Merton M. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
. The novel is noted for its groundbreaking and sympathetic treatment of Native Americans. The work has become central to scholarship of early gender studies and race relations as it examines with scrutiny the seeds of these cultural issues. Hope leslie" helped to alter the fabric of American literature, situated among the likes of Charles Brockden Brown and James Fenimore Cooper.
These progressive narratives, set among Puritanism and moral conservatism, advocated for greater female equality. Catharine sedgwick 1789-1867 was a prominent American novelist of the 19th century. The novel that made catharine Sedgwick famous, "Hope Leslie" remains a classic of early American fiction.
Our Nig: or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Penguin Classics
Ruth Hall A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
Emerson: Selected Essays
This collection brings together 15 of emerson's most significant essays, "Self-reliance" and "The Transcendentalist", as well as his assessments of Montaigne, "The American Scholar", including "Nature", Napoleon and Thoreau.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia Penguin Classics
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