« Vous a-t-on jamais parlé des pommes d'or qui mûrissaient au jardin des Hespérides ? Aj, quelles pommes, le boisseau se vendrait à un bon prix si l'on en trouvait dans nos vergers d'aujourd'hui. Mais leur greffe est perdue.

Les trois pommes d'or

In a sleepy little New England village stands a dark, weather-beaten, many-gabled house. This brooding mansion is haunted by a centuries-old curse that casts the shadow of ancestral sin upon the last four members of the distinctive Pyncheon family. Mysterious deaths threaten the living. Musty documents nestle behind hidden panels carrying the secret of the family's salvation, or its downfall. 

Hawthorne called The House of the Seven Gables "a Romance" and freely bestowed upon it many fascinating gothic touches. A brilliant intertwining of the popular, the symbolic, and the historical, the novel is a powerful exploration of personal and national guilt, a work that Henry James declared "the the closest approach we are likely to have to the Great American Novel".

The House of Seven Gables

Après avoir vaincu Procuste, sinistre personnage qui retaillait ses victimes aux dimensions de sa couche, Scinis, qui catapultait ses contemporains dans les airs, et quelques autres dangers publics de l'époque, le jeune Thésée entre dans les Athènes, où il compte retrouver son père, Egée, qui règne sur l'Attique. Là, il apprend qu'un monstre le protégeé du roi de Crète, Minos. A ce monstre, Athènes sacrifie chaque année quatorze jeunes garçons.

Le minotaure - Conte de la mythologie grecque

A smash hit in its day, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is the gripping tale of three New England settlers at odds with the seventeenth-century Puritan society in which they live, and remains one of literature's most evocative portraits of a love triangle. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, pocket-sized classics bound in real cloth with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. Featuring an afterword by broadcaster Jonty Claypole. Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for adultery. She refuses to reveal her lover and is sentenced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' sewn onto her clothes. Resolving to discover the man's identity, Roger sets out to destroy his rival, while Hester desperately tries to protect her illegitimate daughter from a society determined to condemn them both.

The Scarlet Letter

Il titolo di questa piccola antologia, Moltitudine, solitudine, è firmato da Baudelaire ed è tratto da Le folle, un poemetto in prosa del 1861 ispirato dall'Uomo della folla di Poe. Wakefield, l'Uomo della folla e Bartleby sono personaggi assimilabili allo spettro evocato da Baudelaire, o quanto meno sono uomini inseguiti da creature dell'oscuro. I tre racconti sono esemplari della grandezza di tre fra i massimi scrittori dell'epoca e tuttavia marcano anche una sorta di anomalia, una tappa singolare nell'arco delle rispettive parabole creative. Mentre "uno spettro si aggira per l'Europa", lo spettro, l'incubo che si aggira invece sulle pagine dei romanzi e dei racconti scritti in quei decenni non è più la creatura d'oltretomba che infesta castelli aviti e dimore isolate nella brughiera: l'armamentario gotico che ha sostenuto la letteratura fantastica dalla fine del Settecento fino alla metà del secolo seguente sbiadisce per lasciare spazio a nuove paure, insinuate tra i muri sporchi degli slum, nei fumi delle fabbriche, nel coagularsi incessante di genti, merci e denaro lungo le vie metropolitane. Sono spettri inurbati, creature pallide di stenti e con i nervi a pezzi, macilente o dignitose ma sempre sull'orlo della disfatta; fanno da specchio ai timori e terrori più occulti dei concittadini tra i quali si aggirano, anche in pieno giorno.

Moltitudine, solitudine - Wakefield - Bartleby lo scrivano - L’uomo della folla.  Tre racconti

En lien avec le thème «  Le monstre, aux limites de l'humain  » du programme de français en 6e, quatre célèbres légendes de monstres, adaptées de la mythologie grecque par N. Hawthorne. En complément, un dossier thématique sur la figure du dragon, avec des photos en couleurs. Quatre récits mythologiques Quatre célèbres récits de la mythologie grecque  -  Méduse, la Chimère, Thésée et le Minotaure, Jason et la toison d'or -, qui chacun raconte le combat d'un héros contre un terrible monstre.  
Des légendes adaptées à partir des sources antiques et merveilleusement racontées par N.  Hawthorne dans Le Livre des merveilles (1837).
  
Le dossier pédagogique Avec toutes les ressources utiles au collégien  :
- des repères sur le contexte des légendes, les personnages évoqués  ;
- des notes qui éclairent la lecture  du texte  ;
- des questionnaires, avec la définition des notions en jeu.

En complément  : le dossier thématique «  La figure du dragon  » Pour comprendre les origines de cette créature légendaire et en explorer différentes représentations.
Un dossier structuré en cinq sections  : 1. Le dragon dans la mythologie gréco-latine, 2. Le dragon dans les légendes nordiques et germaniques, 3. Le dragon dans les légendes médiévales, 4. Le dragon dans les légendes chinoises, 5. Godzilla, un monstre moderne ; dans chacune, des documents (textes et iconographies en couleurs) introduits et associés à des mini-questionnaires.
  
Pour l'enseignant Sur www.editions-hatier.fr, dans la fiche article de l'ouvrage, un guide pédagogique et des fiches photocopiables en accès gratuit réservé.

Méduse et autres légendes de monstres

A superb depiction of a utopian community that cannot survive the individual passions of its members. In language that is suggestive and often erotic, Nathaniel Hawthorne tells a tale of failed possibilities and multiple personal betrayals as he explores the contrasts between what his characters espouse and what they actually experience in an 'ideal' community. A theme of unrealized sexual possibilities serves as a counterpoint to the other failures at Blithedale: class and sex distinctions are not eradicated, and communal work on the farm proves personally unrewarding and economically disastrous. Based in part on Hawthorne's own experiences at Brook Farm, an experimental socialist community, The Blithedale Romance is especially timely in light of renewed interest in self-sufficient and other cooperative societies.

The blithedale romance

Jason veut reprendre à son oncle Pélias le trône qu'il usurpa jadis à son père, le roi Eson. Pélias promet de le lui rendre pourvu que Jason rapporte la Toison d'or. Pélias croit ainsi se débarrasser définitivement de son neveu tant sont grands les dangers qu'il devra courir pour la conquérir. Jason organise alors la célèbre expédition des Argonautes et s'embarque sur l'Argo en compagnie de quarante-neuf héros qui affrontent à ses côtés de terribles périls. Après avoir déjoué de multiples embûches, Jason, aidé par Médée, parvient à ravir la Toison d'or au dragon qui la garde. Le grand romancier américain Nathaniel Hawthorne raconte aux enfants une des plus fameuses légendes de la mythologie grecque.

La Toison d'or

When two men are gravely injured during the Battle of Pequawket in 1725, one makes a choice that will haunt him for the remainder of his days. Although Reuben and Roger take shelter against a tombstone-shaped rock together, Reuben survives only by leaving his friend to die. Years later, Reuben takes his grown son hunting and is forced to confront his guilt about not keeping his promise to a dying man. "Roger Malvin's Burial" was adapted into a short radio program in 1949, and was also republished in the collection Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846. It remains one of Nathaniel Hawthorne's most moving but least-known short stories. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

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