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Chaque année, Athènes doit livrer au roi de Crète, Minos, sept garçons et sept filles, régulièrement dévorés par Minotaure, fils monstrueux de Pasiphaé, femme de Minos.Thésée, courageux fils du roi d'Athènes, aidé par Ariane, fille de Minos, délivre Athènes de ce lourd tribut.Un des plus vieux contes du monde occidental raconté aux enfants par le grand romancier américain, Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Le Minotaure

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.

Roger Malvin's Burial - Short Story

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New England colony, the novel shows the terrible impact a single, passionate act has on the lives of three members of the community: the defiant Hester Prynne; the fiery, tortured Reverend Dimmesdale; and the obsessed, vengeful Chillingworth.With THE SCARLET LETTER, Hawthorne became the first American novelist to forge from our Puritan heritage a universal classic, a masterful exploration of humanity's unending struggle with sin, guilt and pride.

La Lettre Écarlate

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 'Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will be always in her heart.'

 A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne's strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast. It is in her refusal to reveal the identity of the father in the face of her accusers that Hawthorne champions his heroine and berates the weakness of Society for attacking the innocent.

The Scarlet Letter

Ces petites bouffées d'irritation sont précisément ce qui donne au texte son charme - et sa vérité. Aucun adulte sain d'esprit ne peut endurer la compagnie d'un enfant débordant de vitalité sans flancher de temps à autre, et en admettant que son calme n'est pas toujours parfait, Hawthorne fait du journal quelque chose de plus qu'un album personnel de souvenirs d'un été. (Paul Auster)

Vingt Jours Avec Julian Et Petit Lapin, Selon Papa Precede De Hawthorne En Famille Par Paul Auster

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Boston, 1642. Hester, dont le mari est porté disparu, est mise au pilori car elle a commis l'adultère. Condamnée par la colonie puritaine à porter jusqu'à la fin de sa vie sur la poitrine un A écarlate, elle part vivre à la périphérie de la ville, seule avec sa fille, car elle a refusé de livrer le nom de son amant... Considéré comme le premier grand roman du continent américain, cet ouvrage connut à sa publication en 1850 un immense succès, mais par sa peinture d'une société intégriste et d'une femme éprise de liberté, il n'a rien perdu aujourd'hui de sa force et de son attrait. « Un roman admirable, extraordinaire [...] il possède le charme et le mystère des grandes oeuvres d'art » (Henry James).

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