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by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Author) "A Young man, named Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studies at the University of..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd (30 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1843910357
  • ISBN-13: 978-1843910350
  • Product Dimensions: 19.5 x 16.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Taking up his place at the University of Padua, the youthful Giovanni Guasconti is enchanted to discover a nearby garden of the most exquisite beauty. In it abides a young woman, perhaps the most beautiful Giovanni has ever seen. Yet as he looks out from an upstairs window, he soon learns that, far from stemming from the gentle hand of Mother Nature, the garden - and the matchless Beatrice - are in fact the result of a monstrous abomination of creativity.


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5.0 out of 5 stars Evil must be your only happiness, 23 Dec 2008
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The three short stories in this book give a perfect flavor of N. Hawthorne's masterful literary art: social relevance, psychological insight, irony, sarcasm, allegoric and symbolic power.

In `Rappaccini's Daughter', a beautiful garden (`Was this garden the Eden of the present world?') contains only poisonous flowers. Its gardener is a physician whose experiments serve only his diabolic and morbid goal of total control over his daughter.

In `Young Goodman Brown', a young man undergoes the hallucination of a black mass `by a score of the church members of Salem village'. Its aim is `to penetrate the deep mystery of sin.' He will be marked for the rest of his life.

`A Select Party' is held in a castle in the air. Those invited are `fantastic masquers, rendering heroism and nature alike ridiculous': the representative of Posterity (`I expect to owe you nothing, unless it be certain national debt'), Master Genius, Man of Fancy, but also `such rarities in the world as an incorruptible Patriot, a Priest without worldly ambitions, a Poet who felt no jealousy or a Reformer untrammeled by his theory.'
Vanitas vanitatum revisited.

These literary gems should not be missed.
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