Sur la place publique de Boston, les honorables paroissiens estiment qu'il aurait fallu, au moins, marquer le front d'Hester Prynne au fer rouge.
Au lieu de quoi, elle ne devra porter sur sa poitrine qu'une lettre écarlate, afin de rappeler à tous son crime odieux : l'adultère et le bébé qui en est né.
Comble de scandale, la lettre qu'elle a brodée, exubérante, la pare comme un bijou. Dans la Nouvelle Angleterre du XVIIe siècle, forgée par le puritanisme, la jeune femme est mise au ban de la société. Mais l'humiliation publique n'est qu'un aspect de la peine : la colère du mari trahi et la culpabilité qui ronge le père de l'enfant vont se révéler des poisons bien plus terribles.
Un des plus grands classiques américains, dans une nouvelle traduction.
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.
Les contes : Minos, cruel roi de Crète, sacrifie chaque année quatorze jeunes Athéniens à l'abominable Minotaure. Pour libérer son peuple de cette malédiction, le valeureux Thésée, fils du roi d'Athènes, décide d'affronter le monstre...Pourra-t-il compter sur l'intrépide et ingénieuse Ariane, la fille de Minos, pour mener à bien cette folle mission ?Dans leur odyssée, Ulysse et ses compagnons rencontrent la magicienne Circé. Elle les reçoit comme des princes, mais le festin qu'elle leur réserve se transforme bientôt en un piège diabolique...
L'objet d'étude : le monstre, aux limites de l'humain (classe de 6e)
L'accompagnement pédagogique :
Une présentation visuelle et accessible pour découvrir l'auteur, l'époque et les récits mythologiques
Les contes « Le Porche de Tanglewood », « Le Minotaure » et sa version audio , « Le Palais de Circé »
Des séances d'étude de l'oeuvre avec des questions, des encadrés sur les grandes notions littéraires et des activités variées
Un groupement de textes et d'images pour prolonger le thème : le rôle des femmes dans l'Odyssée
Un bilan pour retenir l'essentiel
Méthode : des fiches simples et efficaces pour travailler ses compétences (lecture, écriture...)
Le vocabulaire essentiel
Mais à quelle mystérieuse occupation se livre donc le jeune Owen Warland, horloger de son état, connu pour sa fabuleuse habileté ? Certains prétendent qu'il est à la recherche du mouvement perpétuel. Mais à chaque fois, le résultat de ses nuits de labeur acharné se brise dès que quelqu'un s'en approche. Il connaît le désespoir, la tentation du renoncement. Seule la jeune fille dont il est amoureux devine qu'il essaie d'insuffler la vie dans la matière. Cette nouvelle mi-réaliste mi-fantastique est bien sûr une parabole sur la création artistique et la place du beau dans ce monde. À travers le personnage de Warland, à la fois sublime et pathétique, incompris et proche de la folie, Hawthorne a livré un portrait de lui-même qui révèle la profondeur de ses tourments intimes.
Écrivain américain le plus célèbre de son temps et auteur, avec La Lettre écarlate, d'un des premiers grands romans américains, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) n'avait encore jamais vu son autre chef-d'oeuvre, Les Mousses d'un vieux presbytère, intégralement traduit en français. C'est désormais chose faite. Ce recueil regroupe vingt-six nouvelles, marquées par le puritanisme de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et le poids de la faute du péché (« La Marque de Naissance »), mais aussi par le goût du fantastique (« Plumette »), celui des fables millénaristes (« La Procession de la Vie »), ou le souvenir des procès des sorcières de Salem (« Le Jeune Maître Brown »), tandis que d'autres (« Mme Crapaudbuffle ») possèdent une dimension comique, voire grotesque, qui rivalise avec certains contes d'Edgar Poe. On y trouve aussi une vibrante célébration de la nature (« Bourgeons et Chants d'Oiseaux »), ainsi que des gens de peu et des « effacés » - « Le Vieux Marchand de Pommes », courte nouvelle à propos de laquelle Herman Melville, dans l'éloge qu'il publia des Mousses d'un vieux presbytère, et que nous proposons à la suite de cet ensemble, écrit que Hawthorne est sans doute le seul de sa génération à savoir faire preuve « d'une si profonde tendresse » et d'un « amour si omniprésent ». Dans ces nouvelles, Nathaniel Hawthorne conjugue, avec acuité et virtuosité, ce mélange de réalisme et de fantastique, de pragmatisme et de religiosité qui forge l'identité américaine. Pour Paul Auster, « Hawthorne a compris la noirceur des êtres, une forme particulière de noirceur américaine », qui continue d'exercer une véritable fascination sur le lecteur.
La boîte de Pandore qu'il ne faut pas ouvrir sous peine des pires malheurs ; le roi Midas que sa passion de l'or faillit perdre ; Hercule qui par la ruse et la force obtiendra les pommes d'or du jardin des Hespérides ; Philémon et Baucis, les amoureux vieillissants qui resteront unis par-delà la mort ; comment Persée parvint à se débarrasser de la Gorgone, et Bellérophon, de l'hideuse Chimère.
Dive into the haunting world of "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts, this novel weaves a gripping tale of love, sin, and redemption. Follow the enigmatic Hester Prynne, marked by the scarlet letter 'A' as a symbol of her adulterous affair. As secrets unravel, Reverend Dimmesdale grapples with his own hidden guilt. With vivid prose, Hawthorne explores the consequences of societal judgment and the enduring power of love. "The Scarlet Letter" is a timeless exploration of human nature, morality, and the pursuit of truth that continues to captivate readers today. Delve into this classic and discover the enduring impact of Hester's scarlet letter.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Nathaniel Hawthorne, born on July 4, 1804, was a renowned American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his novel "The Scarlet Letter", a classic of American literature. Hawthorne's writing often delved into themes of sin, guilt, and the human condition, and his works are celebrated for their intricate symbolism and psychological depth.
Hawthorne's early life was marked by tragedy, as his father died when he was just four years old. He later attended Bowdoin College and befriended future literary giants like Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
His career took off with the publication of "Twice-Told Tales", a collection of short stories. However, it was "The Scarlet Letter," published in 1850, that catapulted him to literary stardom. The novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, a woman shamed for bearing an illegitimate child, and explores the harsh moral judgments of Puritan society.
Hawthorne's writing style, characterized by its rich prose and exploration of the human soul, left an indelible mark on American literature. He continued to write novels such as "The House of the Seven Gables" and "The Blithedale Romance".
Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary legacy endures, and he remains a key figure in the American literary canon. He passed away on May 19, 1864, leaving behind a body of work that continues to captivate readers with its timeless themes and compelling narratives.
Ce recueil de nouvelles signées par Nathaniel Hawthorne contient 16 contes étranges et mystérieux dans la veine des maîtres du genre, au croisement d'Edgar Allan Poe et Arthur Conan Doyle.
Réputé pour la « noirceur puritaine » de certains de ses récits courts, Hawthorne, qui fut aussi écrivain pour enfants, a su donner à nombre de ses textes un aspect plus anodin ou plus aimable : si plusieurs des contes réunis ici peuvent passer pour d'inoffensives bluettes, ces charmantes histoires font jeu commun avec d'autres qui sont d'un abord plus déroutant et plus sombre. Dans les deux cas pourtant s'affirme l'idée de fantaisie : elle prévaut comme mode dominant de l'imagination créatrice pour donner forme et vie à des images qui, délaissant le domaine de la plate imitation du réel, glissent vers les limites du fantastique non sans brouiller les niveaux de la représentation. Fasciné par l'idée que l'oœeuvre d'art s'anime sur le modèle de la sculpture de Pygmalion, Hawthorne peuple d'improbables effigies le monde de ses contes, images non seulement visibles mais formes en relief qui se meuvent avec la semblance de la vie.
Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is loosely based on the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He always considered the book as unfinished and it wasn't published until after his death by his son Julian.
There once lived a very rich king called Midas who believed that nothing was more precious than gold. So begins this imaginative retelling of the myth of the man with the golden touch. When a mysterious stranger offers to grant King Midas a wish, the king does not hesitate: He wishes that all he touches would turn to gold. To his delight, his wish is granted and he soon sets about transforming his ordinary palace into a place of golden beauty. But to his dismay, when he accidentally turns his beloved daughter Marigold, into a golden statue, Midas learns that what at first seems a blessing can also become a curse.Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility. Lovingly created from 1953 to 1969, Classics Illustrated Junior continues to bring joy and wonder to young children through beautifully-illustrated adaptations of the world's most beloved fairy tales and stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated Junior books is a great way to encourage reading and adventure in any young child.
An old man named Philemon and his wife, Baucis, graciously show hospitality to strangers who turn out to be, none other than Mercury, messenger of the Gods and old Jupiter, Father of us all. From an empty pitcher, milk flows endlessly. Find out what happens to the mean villagers when the valley fills with water. Who is Quicksilver and why does he have wings on his feet?Optimized for Kindle devices and featuring Panel Zoom facility. Lovingly created from 1953 to 1969, Classics Illustrated Junior continues to bring joy and wonder to young children through beautifully-illustrated adaptations of the world's most beloved fairy tales and stories by the world's greatest authors.A collection of Classics Illustrated Junior books is a great way to encourage reading and adventure in any young child.
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The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850; it was one of the first books to be massproduced in America, which helped ensure its immediate popularity and ubiquitous presence on contemporary shelves. Its first printing of 2,500 books sold out in ten days.
The novel is set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony between the years 1642 and 1649. Hester Prynne has had a child out of wedlock, and its father is a mystery. For her sin, she is made to wear an embroidered scarlet A on her clothes-for "Adulteress." She now faces a life of unending shame in the stern and religious Puritan colony, in a part of the world where there are no others to turn to.
While the plot is simple, the novel is highly allegorical. It explores themes of sin, guilt, repentance, forgiveness, alienation, and legalism. Characters have symbolic names and appearances, and many aspects of the narrative can be viewed in a symbolist lens.
Hawthorne initially thought the novel was too short for publication on its own; to pad the length, he included the "Customhouse" introduction. The introduction angered the residents of Salem, who thought the introduction was poking meanspirited fun at them. This prompted Hawthorne to republish the book "without the change of a word," but with a reassurance that the introduction was meant in good spirits.
The novel has been consistently popular since its publication, with it being required reading in many American high schools. D. H. Lawrence called it "a perfect work of American imagination."
Der Roman spielt im Boston des 17. Jahrhunderts. Puritanisches Denken und Leben prägt den Lebenswandel der Bevlkerung. Inmitten lebt Hester, deren Mann auf eigentümliche Weise verschwunden ist. Während seiner Abwesendheit wird sie schwanger und wird als Ehebrecherin Verurteilt. Noch in der Haft gebärt sie ihre Tochter Perle. Nach der Haftentlassung muss sie drei Stunden am Pranger stehen und als lebenslängliche Strafe den Buch scharlachroten Buchstaben "E" für "Ehebrecherin" tragen.
The Scarlet Letter: The Manga Edition will be a hit with both manga readers and in the classroom. A four-page essay at the beginning ties the novel and manga together; the rest of the book is taken up with the manga novel itself. So, there should be strong carryover between those people who are manga readers and those teachers/students who want a new and unique way to read the plays.
Our The Scarlet Letter manga is true to the original context of the play--we don't take Hester and Pearl and set them in a setting/time that's not relevant to Hawthorne's original and intended time/setting. You could say that ours is "true" to the novel.
The Blithedale Romance is the story of four principal characters who work with -- and sometimes against -- each other on Blithedale, a communal farm antecedent to those that sprang up later in the 1960s, and similar to one on which Hawthorne himself lived in 1841. These communes arose out of the pressures on society and the individual brought by the Industrial Revolution. Some were organized around religious philosophies, some were secular. Among the secularists, the Transcendental movement mentioned in the novel espoused the idea that the individual's intuition, rather than religious dogma, was the true path to spiritual enlightenment. Our four characters, like so many who fled to these communes, struggle to free mankind from bondage as they struggle with the unaccustomed day-to-day tasks of farm life. But they are plagued by a mystery that follows them from the world, and ultimately leads to tragedy. (Summary by Christine Dufour)
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation. Beatrice is confined to the lush and locked gardens filled with poisonous plants by her father. Having fallen in love, Giovanni enters the garden and meets with Beatrice a number of times regardless of the warning of his mentor, Professor Baglioni, that Rappaccini is up to no good and he and his work should be avoided. -- Wikipedia.
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name. (Introduction by Wikipedia)
The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief. Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the gloomy mansion of the title seems to sit on the fortunes of the Pyncheon family. An ancestor took advantage of the Salem witch trials to wrest away the land whereon the house would be raised... but the land's owner, about to be executed as a wizard, cursed the Pyncheon family until such time as they should make restitution.Now, almost two centuries later, the family is in real distress. Hepzibah, an old maid and resident of the house, is forced by advanced poverty to open a shop in a part of the house. Her brother Clifford has just been released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence for murder, and his mind struggles to maintain any kind of hold on reality. Cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon is making himself odious by threatening to have Clifford committed to an institution. And after all these years, the deed to a vast tract of land, that would settle great wealth on the family, is still missing.One bright ray of sunshine enters the house when cousin Phoebe arrives for an extended stay to allow unhappy matters in her end of the family to sort themselves out. While she lightens the lives of Hepzibah and Clifford, she also attracts the attention of a mysterious lodger named Holgrave, who has placed himself near the Pyncheon family for reasons that only come clear at the end of the story.The real crisis arrives when the Judge, who strongly resembles the Colonel Pyncheon who built the house so many years ago, steps up his demands on Hepzibah and Clifford and unwittingly triggers the curse. (Summary by Mark F. Smith)
A collection of four short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the common theme of which is New Hampshire's White Mountains. Consists of: The Great Stone Face, written in 1850 and revolves around the 'Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire which sadly collapsed on May 3, 2003; The Ambitious Guest, written in 1835; The Great Carbuncle, written in 1837; and Sketches From Memory, written sometime prior to The Great Carbuncle as will become obvious.
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such a form and style, that the YOUNG might make acquaintance with them of their own accord. For this purpose, while ostensibly relating the adventures of a Chair, he has endeavored to keep a distinct and unbroken thread of authentic history. The Chair is made to pass from one to another of those personages, of whom he thought it most desirable for the young reader to have vivid and familiar ideas, and whose lives and actions would best enable him to give picturesque sketches of the times. On its sturdy oaken legs, it trudges diligently from one scene to another, and seems always to thrust itself in the way, with most benign complacency, whenever a historical personage happens to be looking round for a seat. - Summary from Preface by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mosses from an Old Manse is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes several previously-published short stories and is named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for the first three years of their marriage. A second edition was published in 1854, which added "Feathertop," "Passages from a Relinquished Work, and "Sketches from Memory." Many of the tales collected in "Mosses from an Old Manse" are allegories and, typical of Hawthorne, focus on the negative side of human nature. Hawthorne's friend Herman Melville noted this aspect in his review "Hawthorne and His Mosses": "This black conceit pervades him through and through. You may be witched by his sunlight, transported by the bright gildings in the skies he builds over you; but there is the blackness of darkness beyond; and even his bright gildings but fringe and play upon the edges of thunder-clouds." William Henry Channing reviewed the collection in The Harbinger and noted that its author "had been baptized in the deep waters of Tragedy" and his work was dark with only brief moments of "serene brightness" which was never brighter than "dusky twilight".
Le Livre des merveilles est un recueil de récits de la mythologie grecque racontés aux enfants par le célèbre romancier américain Nathaniel Hawthorne. Bien que le livre date du XIXe siècle, il continue à faire figure de référence mondiale en matière d'adaptation de la mythologie pour les jeunes lecteurs. L'ouvrage se présente comme une juxtaposition de deux narrations. Le récit-cadre présente un étudiant du Williams College, Eustace Bright, qui entreprend d'initier un groupe d'enfants aux légendes de la Grèce antique.
Dans ses magnifiques récits, le conteur fait trembler les enfants avec Percée face à la Méduse (La Tête de la Gorgone) ; il leur fait suivre Hercule sur le chemin du jardin des Hespérides (Les Trois pommes d'Or) ; il les initie à la tragédie de Midas (La Touche d'Or) ; il leur fait partager les misères et le bonheur de Philémon et Baucis (La Cruche miraculeuse) ; il leur fait découvrir avec le héros Bellérophon la difficulté de vaincre une créature malfaisante (La Chimère) ; il les avertit avec Pandore de la facilité avec laquelle les malheurs peuvent s'abattre sur les hommes (Le Paradis des enfants).
La letra escarlata narra la historia de Hesner Prynne, una mujer acusada de adulterio y condenada a un castigo infame: Llevar marcada en el pecho la letra A, por adúltera.
