Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an English romantic novel from his own encounters in England during 1853 to 1858.

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"Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is an English romantic novel from his own encounters in England during 1853 to 1858.

Sujets

• Man
• Race
• Nature
• Time
• NED
• Moment
• Course
• Note
• IDEA
• Figure
• Spider
• Sidé
• AH
• Life
• Grave
• America
• Hall
• Home
• Legend
• England
• Friend
• Love
• Point
• Face
• Place
• Lord
• Blood
• BOY
• Thing
• Gentleman
• Day
• Sort
• Heart
• Warden
• Nothing
• Family
• Chamber
• Hannah
• Head
• House
• Century
• Englishman
• World
• Child
• Eye
• Something
• Truth
• Author
• Country
• Character
• Door
• English
• Foot
• Year
• Thought
• Interest
• Story
• Feeling
• Name
• Purpose
• State
• Effect
• Part
• Doctor
• Chapter
• Kind
• Elsie
• Schoolmaster
• MIND
• Guest
• Pensioner
• FACT
• Anything
• People
• Braithwaite
• EndNote
• Grim
• Agé
• Room
• Footstep
• Hospital
• Hand
• Matter
• Persön
• Sense
• Stranger

Informations

• Publié par: Trajectory Classics
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 4
• EAN13: 9781632098597
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Doctor Grimshawe's Secret a Romance
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Table of Contents
Trajectory Introduction
PREFACE
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV. 
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
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Summary of Statistics
Reading Time
Occurrence of People, Places, & Things
Character Co-Occurence
Place Co-Occurence
Character Verb Associations
Top 100 Words
Top 25 Nouns
Top 25 Verbs
Top 25 Adjectives
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About the Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne" in order to hide this relation. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. Hawthorne published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828; he later tried to suppress it, feeling it was not equal to the standard of his later work. He published several short stories in various periodicals which he collected in 1837 as Twice-Told Tales. The next year, he became engaged to Sophia Peabody. He worked at a Custom House and joined Brook Farm, a transcendentalist community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts, later moving to Salem, the Berkshires, then to The Wayside in Concord. The Scarlet Letter was published in 1850, followed by a succession of other novels. A political appointment took Hawthorne and family to Europe before their return to The Wayside in 1860. Hawthorne died on May 19, 1864, and was survived by his wife and their three children.

PREFACE
A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacious critics who maintain that what of his own an author condemns must be doubly damnable, are, to say the least of it, as often likely to be right as wrong.
Beyond these general remarks, however, it does not seem necessary to adopt an apologetic attitude. There is nothing in the present volume which any one possessed of brains and cultivation will not be thankful to read. The appreciation of Nathaniel Hawthorne s writings is more intelligent and wide-spread than it used to be; and the later development of our national literature has not, perhaps, so entirely exhausted our resources of admiration as to leave no welcome for even the less elaborate work of a contemporary of Dickens and Thackeray. As regards "Doctor Grimshawe s Secret,"--the title which, for lack of a better, has been given to this Romance,--it can scarcely be pronounced deficient in either elaboration or profundity. Had Mr. Hawthorne written out the story in every part to its full dimensions, it could not have failed to rank among the greatest of his productions. He had looked forward to it as to the crowning achievement of his literary career. In the Preface to "Our Old Home" he alludes to it as a work into which he proposed to convey more of various modes of truth than he could have grasped by a direct effort. But circumstances prevented him from perfecting the design which had been before his mind for seven years, and upon the shaping of which he bestowed more thought and labor than upon anything else he had undertaken. The successive and consecutive series of notes or studies [Footnote: These studies, extracts from which will be published in one of our magazines, are hereafter to be added, in their complete form, to the Appendix of this volume.] which he wrote for this Romance would of themselves make a small volume, and one of autobiographical as well as literary interest. There is no other instance, that I happen to have met with, in which a writer s thought reflects itself upon paper so immediately and sensitively as in these studies. To read them is to look into the man s mind, and see its quality and action. The penetration, the subtlety, the tenacity; the stubborn gripe which he lays upon his subject, like that of Hercules upon the slippery Old Man of the Sea;