The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne - Libros -  - 9798671159547 - 1 de noviembre de 2020
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The Scarlet Letter

Book Excerpt: ...which has since become a city. And here his descendants have been born and died, and have mingled their earthy substance with the soil; until no small portion of it must necessarily be akin to the mortal frame wherewith, for a little while, I walk the streets. In part, therefore, the attachment which I speak of is the mere sensuous sympathy of dust for dust. Few of my countrymen can know what it is; nor, as frequent transplantation is perhaps better for the stock, need they consider it desirable to know. But the sentiment has likewise its moral quality. The figure of that first ancestor, invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur, was present to my boyish imagination, as far back as I can remember. It still haunts me, and induces a sort of home-feeling with the past, which I scarcely claim in reference to the present phase of the town. I seem to have a stronger claim to a residence here on account of this grave, bearded, sable-cloaked and steeple-crowned progenitor, --who came so early, ..

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Publicado 1 de noviembre de 2020
ISBN13 9798671159547
Páginas 194
Dimensiones 152 × 229 × 11 mm   ·   290 g
Lengua Inglés  

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