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"The Man of Adamant" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1837 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir , edited by Samuel Griswold Goodrich . It later appeared in Hawthorne's final collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales , published in 1852 by Ticknor, Reed & Fields .
In his preface to the collection, Hawthorne playfully noted that his confessional tone in writing about himself should not be trusted: "[T]hese things hide the man instead of displaying him", he wrote, and suggested that readers seeking "essential traits" of the author "must make quite another kind of inquest", specifically that "you must look ...
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":
Sir Ian McKellen has explained why he accepted a knighthood after considering turning down the offer.. The Lord of the Rings actor was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 for services to the ...
In 1850, Herman Melville referred to "Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" as a tale deserving of "curious and elaborate analysis, touching the conjectural parts of the mind that produced them." [ 5 ] Though author Henry James in 1879 said the story was "stiff and mechanical, slightly incongruous", it influenced his tale " The Jolly Corner ". [ 6 ]
Farcical and viscerally upsetting in equal measure, P.S. Vinothraj’s “The Adamant Girl” masterfully exposes the nature of superstition by zeroing in on gendered expectations. A story of a ...
The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation. Both Hesiod and Ovid offered accounts of the successive ages of humanity, which tend to progress from an original, long-gone age in which humans enjoyed a nearly divine existence to the current age of the writer, in ...
The Man is a 1905 Edwardian novel by Bram Stoker, best known for Dracula. [1] A typical Gothic novel, it features horror and romance . The Man has also been published as The Gates of Life .