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1、TheScarletLetterNathanielHawthorneThiseBookisdesignedandpublishedbyPlanetPDF.FormorefreeeBooksvisitourWebsiteathttp://www.planetpdf.com/.TheScarletLetterEDITOR’SNOTENathanielHawthornewasalreadyamanofforty-six,andatalewriterofsometwenty-fouryears’standi
2、ng,when‘TheScarletLetter’appeared.HewasbornatSalem,Mass.,onJuly4th,1804,sonofasea-captain.Heledthereashyandrathersombrelife;offewartisticencouragements,yetnotwhollyuncongenial,hismoody,intenselymeditativetemperamentbeingconsidered.Itscoloursandshadowsa
3、remarvelouslyreflectedinhis‘Twice-ToldTales’andothershortstories,theproductofhisfirstliteraryperiod.EvenhiscollegedaysatBowdoindidnotquitebreakthroughhisacquiredandinheritedreserve;butbeneathitall,hisfacultyofdiviningmenandwomenwasexercisedwithalmostun
4、cannyprescienceandsubtlety.‘TheScarletLetter,’whichexplainsasmuchofthisuniqueimaginativeart,asistobegatheredfromreadinghishighestsingleachievement,yetneedstoberangedwithhisotherwritings,earlyandlate,tohaveitslasteffect.Intheyearthatsawitpublished,hebeg
5、an‘TheHouseoftheSevenGables,’alaterromanceorprose-tragedyofthePuritan-Americancommunityashehadhimselfknownit-defraudedofartandthejoyoflife,2of394TheScarletLetter‘starvingforsymbols’asEmersonhasit.NathanielHawthornediedatPlymouth,NewHampshire,onMay18th,
6、1864.Thefollowingisthetableofhisromances,stories,andotherworks:Fanshawe,publishedanonymously,1826;Twice-ToldTales,1stSeries,1837;2ndSeries,1842;Grandfather’sChair,ahistoryforyouth,1845:FamousOldPeople(Grandfather’sChair),1841LibertyTree:withthelastword
7、sofGrandfather’sChair,1842;BiographicalStoriesforChildren,1842;MossesfromanOldManse,1846;TheScarletLetter,1850;TheHouseoftheSevenGables,1851:TrueStoriesfromHistoryandBiography(thewholeHistoryofGrandfather’sChair),1851AWonderBookforGirlsandBoys,1851;The
8、SnowImageandotherTales,1851:TheBlithedaleRomance,1852;LifeofFranklinPierce,1852;TanglewoodTales(2ndSeriesoftheWonderBook),1853;ARillfromtheTown-Pump,withremarks,byTelba,1857;TheMarbleFaun;or,TheRomanceofMonteBeni(4EDITOR’SNOTE)(publishe
