Nathaniel Hawthorne

2 months ago | lithub.com | Emily Temple |Anne Rice |Toni Morrison |Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every month, all the major streaming services add a host of newly acquired (or just plain new) shows, movies, and documentaries into their ever-rotating libraries. So what’s a dedicated reader to watch? Well, whatever you want, of course, but the name of this website is Literary Hub, so we sort of have an angle. To that end, here’s a selection of the best (and most enjoyably bad) literary film and TV coming to streaming services this month. Have fun.

Sep 20, 2024 | 3quarksdaily.com | Nathaniel Hawthorne |Thomas Mann |Ed Simon

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Though there are stories about people trading their souls with the devil in exchange for power and knowledge before, it was the English playwright Christopher Marlowe's 1592 play that firmly entrenched that variety of character in the literary imagination.

Oct 11, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Nathaniel Hawthorne

Accordingly we set out—a friend and myself—towards Washington, while it was still the long, dreary January of our Northern year, though March in name; nor were we unwilling to clip a little margin off the five months' winter, during which there is nothing genial in New England save the fireside. It was a clear, frosty morning, when we started.