Creative Short Stories (Hardcover)
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Dr. Heidegger's four elderly friends have lost all they valued as youths. Prosperity is gone, as well as health, reputation, and beauty. They re the perfect subjects for DOCTOR HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT.
"My dear old friends, I am desirous of your assistance in one of those little experiments with which I amuse myself here in my study," invites the doctor in this Creative Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Heidegger offers each a glass of the Water of Youth. Then he directs them to remember the perils of their own youth, so they might avoid the same mistakes. When he observes them become the same passionate and reckless youngsters they once were, he concludes that one often does not learn from he past. And he himself would never trade the wisdom of age for the delirium of youth.
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"My dear old friends, I am desirous of your assistance in one of those little experiments with which I amuse myself here in my study," invites the doctor in this Creative Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Heidegger offers each a glass of the Water of Youth. Then he directs them to remember the perils of their own youth, so they might avoid the same mistakes. When he observes them become the same passionate and reckless youngsters they once were, he concludes that one often does not learn from he past. And he himself would never trade the wisdom of age for the delirium of youth.
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"Dearest heart," whispers Faith into her husband's ear, "prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed tonight."
But her plea goes unheeded as Goodman Brown sets off on a midnight journey through the forest. With every sep the path becomes more menacing. Walking sticks slither like serpents. Leaves wither and die at a touch. Wild beasts howl and groan. Even more ominous is the sight of the pious church folk of the community, passing by him one by one as they hurry toward their evil destination.
"Not another step will I budge on this errand," Goodman Brown declares. But he is unable to turn back...and when he finally leaves the forest, his life has been changed forever.
Set in Puritan New England, Nathaniel Hawthorne's YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN is a haunting allegorical tale of religious faith and hypocrisy, deception and disillusionment.
--front flap
But her plea goes unheeded as Goodman Brown sets off on a midnight journey through the forest. With every sep the path becomes more menacing. Walking sticks slither like serpents. Leaves wither and die at a touch. Wild beasts howl and groan. Even more ominous is the sight of the pious church folk of the community, passing by him one by one as they hurry toward their evil destination.
"Not another step will I budge on this errand," Goodman Brown declares. But he is unable to turn back...and when he finally leaves the forest, his life has been changed forever.
Set in Puritan New England, Nathaniel Hawthorne's YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN is a haunting allegorical tale of religious faith and hypocrisy, deception and disillusionment.
--front flap