Réunit quatre nouvelles où le mal semble toujours à l'oeuvre comme dans Le manteau de lady Eleanore où l'orgueil entraîne l'héroïne dans la mort. Les trois autres nouvelles s'intitulent : The prophetic pictures ; The Birthmark ; Rappaccini's daughter. ©Electre 2025
Lady Eleanore's Mantle
and Other Tales of Mystery
The Prophetic Pictures - The Birthmark
Rappaccini's Daughter
"It was not love, although her rich beauty was a madness to him ; nor horror, even while he fancied her spirit to be imbued with the same baneful essence that seemed to pervade her physical frame ; but a wild offspring of both love and horror that had each parent in it, and burned like one and shivered like the other. Giovanni knew not what to dread ; still less did he know what to hope ; yet hope and dread kept a continual warfare in his breast, alternately vanquishing one another and starting up afresh to renew the contest. Blessed are all simple emotions, be they dark or bright ! It is the lurid intermixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions."
These four spellbinding stories are variations on the struggle between good and evil; prefigurations, one might say, of The Scarlet Letter.
Paru le : 22/01/2005
Thématique : Littérature Anglo-Saxonne Littérature anglo saxonne classique en VO
Auteur(s) : Auteur : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Éditeur(s) :
Zulma
Collection(s) : Zulma classics
Série(s) : Non précisé.
ISBN : Non précisé.
EAN13 : 9782843043079
Reliure : Broché
Pages : 92
Hauteur: 19.0 cm / Largeur 13.0 cm
Épaisseur: 0.9 cm
Poids: 105 g
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