Literature--second edition

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I: Fiction. What is fiction? -- The elements of fiction. Plot Character Setting Point of view Theme Symbol and allegory Style and tone. -- Stories. My kinsman, Major Molineux [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne [Fall of the House of Usher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41078W) [Cask of Amontillado](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41016W) / Edgar Allan Poe The country doctor / Ivan Turgenev [Bartleby the scrivener](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL102732W) / Herman Melville The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County / Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain) The necklace / Guy de Maupassant The death of Ivan Ilyich / Leo Tolstoy [The adventure of the speckled band](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL262561W) / Athur Conan Doyle The yellow wall-paper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman The blue hotel / Stephen Crane The darling / Anton Chekhov Heart of darkness / Joseph Contrad The tree of knowledge / Henry james [Araby](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20570121W) / James Joyce I want to know why / Sherwood Anderson A hunger artist / Franz Kafka The fly / Katherine Mansfield Hills like white elephants / Ernest Hemingway [A rose for Emily](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL82884W) [Barn burning](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20080279W) / William Faulkner Guests of the nation / Frank O'Connor The rock-horse winner / D. H. Lawrence Astronomer's wife / Kay Boyle The man who was almost a man / Richard Wright The garden of forking paths / Jorge Luis Borges Why I live at the P.O. / Eudora Welty The grave / Katherine…

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

4 July 1804 – 19 May 1864

Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer. Nathaniel Hawthorne was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation's colonial history. Shortly after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hathorne changed his name to Hawthorne. Hawthorne anonymously published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828. In 1837, he published Twice-Told Tales and became engaged to Sophia Peabody the next year. He worked at a Custom House and joined a Transcendentalist Utopian community, before marrying Peabody in 1842. The couple moved to The Old Manse in Concord, Massachuse…