The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

The snow-image, and other twice-told tales TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N. MY DEAR BRIDGE:Some of...
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Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
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The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

$104.31 $52.13

The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

$104.31 $52.13
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel,1804-1864
Format: eBook
Language: English

The snow-image, and other twice-told tales

TO HORATIO BRIDGE, ESQ., U. S. N. MY DEAR BRIDGE:Some of the more crabbed of my critics, I understand, have pronounced your friend egotistical, indiscreet, and even impertinent, on account of the Prefaces and Introductions with which, on several occasions, he has seen fit to pave the readers way into the interior edifice of a book. In the justice of this censure I do not exactly concur, for the reasons, on the one hand, that the public generally has negatived the idea of undue freedom on the authors part, by evincing, it seems to me, rather more interest in those aforesaid Introductions than in the stories which followed; and that, on the other hand, with whatever appearance of confidential intimacy, I have been especially careful to make no disclosures respecting myself which the most indifferent observer might not have been acquainted with, and which I was not perfectly willing that my worst enemy should know. I might further justify myself, on the plea that, ever since my youth, I have been addressing a very limited circle of friendly readers, without much danger of being overheard by the public at large; and that the habits thus acquired might pardonably continue, although strangers may have begun to mingle with my audience. But the charge, I am bold to say, is not a reasonable one, in any view which we can fairly take of it. There is no harm, but, on the contrary, good, in arraying some of the ordinary facts of life in a slightly idealized and artistic guise. I have taken facts which relate to myself, because they chance to be nearest at hand, and likewise are my own property. And, as for egotism, a person, who has been burrowing, to his utmost ability, into the depths of our common nature, for the purposes of psychological romance,and who pursues his researches in that dusky region, as he needs must, as well by the tact of sympathy as by the light of observation,will smile at incurring such an imputation in virtue of a little preliminary talk about his external habits, his abode, his casual associates, and other matters entirely upon the surface. These things hide the man, instead of displaying him. You must make quite another kind of inquest, and look through the whole range of his fictitious characters, good and evil, in order to detect any of his essential traits. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 513
Author: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Release Date: May 1, 1996
Format: eBook
Language: English

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