True Stories Of History And Biography

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HAWTHORNE NATHANIEL

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EAN : 9791041825004

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Résumé : Grandfather had been sitting in his old arm-chair, all that pleasant afternoon, while the children were pursuing their various sports, far off or near at hand. Sometimes you would have said, "Grandfather is asleep;" but still, even when his eyes were closed, his thoughts were with the young people, playing among the flowers and shrubbery of the garden. He heard the voice of Laurence, who had taken possession of a heap of decayed branches which the gardener had lopped from the fruit trees, and was building a little hut for his cousin Clara and himself. He heard Clara's gladsome voice, too, as she weeded and watered the flower-bed which had been given her for her own. He could have counted every footstep that Charley took, as he trundled his wheelbarrow along the gravel walk. And though Grandfather was old and gray-haired, yet his heart leaped with joy whenever little Alice came fluttering, like a butterfly, into the room. She had made each of the children her playmate in turn, and now made Grandfather her playmate too, and thought him the merriest of them all.
Biographie : Né à Salem en 1804, mort à Plymouth en 1864. Romancier et nouvelliste, descendant d'une famille puritaine qui avait pris une part active à la chasse aux sorcières au XVII¿ et plus tard à la persécution des Quakers. Ce lourd passé constitue le thème majeur de toute l'oeuvre de Hawthorne.