Book Hauls!

[Extollager]

Randall Stewart wrote the article on Hawthorne in my edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica if anyone's interested.

Aha! Interesting. Still, the Ohio Centenary edition that JD drew to our attention is probably at least as good an edition as the Stewart; but I am confident that the Stewart is a good edition, both scholarly and very reader-friendly.

I started reading Hawthorne's French and Italian Notebooks and like it. They'd never been published in a reliable edition before, so far as I know.

All this Hawthorne talk makes me wonder if a thread should be started in the Classic SF area on Hawthorne's stories of the fantastic, such as

Rappaccini's Daughter (perhaps his greatest weird tale)
The Birthmark
Young Goodman Brown
Ethan Brand
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Celestial Railroad

What would some other notable fantastic tales be?

Also, some of his stories with no overtly fantastic elements would probably please many fans of imaginative fiction.

 

[dask]

The Celestial Railroad, the celestial railroad...sounds familiar in a beyond Hawthorne way. Didn't Michael J. Coney or Christopher Priest or someone like that write a novel with a similar title?

 

[j d worthington]

The Celestial Railroad, the celestial railroad...sounds familiar in a beyond Hawthorne way. Didn't Michael J. Coney or Christopher Priest or someone like that write a novel with a similar title?

Yes... Michael Coney: The Celestial Steam Locomotive.

Dale: You might want to include "Feathertop" in that list, for one. Certainly one of Hawthorne's most charming tales. (I always felt quite sorry for that poor creature....)

And:

"The Minister's Black Veil"
"The Ambitious Guest"
"The Wedding Knell"
some of the "Legends of the Province House"
"The White Old Maid"
"The Hall of Fantasy"
"The Procession of Life"
"Roger Malvin's Burial"
"Earth's Holocaust"
"The Artist of the Beautiful"
"The Snow Image"
"The Devil in Manuscript"
"The Wives of the Dead"

and, of course, The House of the Seven Gables and The Marble Faun, both of which have more than a touch of the fantastic and supernatural about them....

 

[GOLLUM]

All this Hawthorne talk makes me wonder if a thread should be started in the Classic SF area on Hawthorne's stories of the fantastic, such as

Rappaccini's Daughter (perhaps his greatest weird tale)
The Birthmark
Young Goodman Brown
Ethan Brand
Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
The Celestial Railroad

What would some other notable fantastic tales be?

Interesting.

I haven't read that much Hawthorne outside of The House of the Seven Gables and The Scarlett Letter and some short stories.

Mention of the Celestial Road made me check my library and I have an old signet classics edition of The Celestial Road and other stories. It collects together 18 stories of the weird or supernatural with an afterword by R. P. Blackmur (remains largely unread)...I also had copies of the Blitherdale Romance and a penguin black classic edition (what else) entitled The Portable Hawthorn i.e a Hawthorne reader. This contains some of his short stories. romances and The Scarlett Letter but also extracts form his English, French and Italian journals as well as extracts from some of his letters. This collection also contains what appears to be a handy introduction by William Spengemann. As I recall, I don't think I've ever actually thumbed through this before.

I should really try and read some more Hawthorne this year and a Hawthorne thread would be useful to me.

I've also been wanting to get a copy of (easily enough done here) and read The Marble Faun.

EDIT: Just noticed I've also got copies of Wonder Book and Tanglweod Tales in my children's section.

 

[nerd literature]

Mostly it is stuff for my paper and larger project.

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
HG Wells and Modern Science Fiction by Darko Duvin
Annotated HP Lovecraft
Cthulu Mythos by Daniel Harms

 

[dask]

Government's taking so much out of my check now I can't afford free books at the library any more. Now I'm forced to go to the used bookstores and buy as cheap as I can. Found this interesting item for $2.50.

 

[dask]

Yes... Michael Coney: The Celestial Steam Locomotive.

Thank you. By the way I meant Michael G. Coney, not Michael J. Too lazy to double check. Sorry.

 

[Extollager]

Dale: You might want to include "Feathertop" in that list, for one. And...

I know most of those stories and there are some favorites among them! I omitted "Roger Malvin's Burial" etc. as not being fantasies -- but certainly such stories are worth reading and, if people want to, discussing.

 

[Extollager]

Found this interesting item for $2.50.

I'll recommend one more book about Hawthorne in a moment, at a Hawthorne thread under the Classic SF & Fantasy area.

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/foru...horne-master-of-dark-fantasy.html#post1672255

 

[Southern Geologist]

A few more which should complete this month's orders:

For Kindle:

J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
E.E. Smith - Triplanetary (Free!)

In the mail:

E.E. Smith - First Lensman, Galactic Patrol, Gray Lensman

 

[AE35Unit]

A few more which should complete this month's orders:

For Kindle:

J.G. Ballard - The Drowned World
E.E. Smith - Triplanetary (Free!)

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Cool, those are 2 Ive read recently. Triplanetary wasnt too impressive but Im told they improve later in the series.

 

[Southern Geologist]

Cool, those are 2 Ive read recently. Triplanetary wasnt too impressive but Im told they improve later in the series.

Good to know. I've heard some interesting things about the Lensman series but I'll know not to expect too much at the start.

In other news, DAMN YOU KINDLE and your lack of shipping fees and cheap books and instant gratification. I swear, I'm done for the month with these two additions:

The Mammoth Book of Golden Age SF and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.

 

[Lobolover]

Got a pretty big haul for the Holiday season to balance out the fact I didn't get anything since early 2011.

The Lost Traveler by Ruthven Todd
In the Grip of Terror, an anthology which, amongst others containts The Cross of Carl by Walter Owen
The Lady Who Came to Stay/The Elixir of Life from Hippocampus
Havest in Poland by Geoffrey Dennis
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr

And two Wordsworth titles

The Bishop of Hell and Other Stories by Marjorie Bowen
Voodoo Tales The ghost stories of Henry S. Whitehead

 

[AE35Unit]

Just got this from bookmooch.com

Anyone read these books?

 

[Connavar]

I have to warn you guys who might get the book that contain Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by Milton. To avoid a version that is some public domain publish version. There was a version like that was the only about Milton life and not the actual classic,important Epic Poem. There was a shame to my local library when i told their only english version was a fake one. They had to buy in Penguin classic version of Paradise Lost for me.

 

[Extollager]

I have to warn you guys who might get the book that contain Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by Milton. To avoid a version that is some public domain publish version. There was a version like that was the only about Milton life and not the actual classic,important Epic Poem. There was a shame to my local library when i told their only english version was a fake one. They had to buy in Penguin classic version of Paradise Lost for me.

One could also buy the Norton Critical edition of Paradise Lost for a reliable text. I'd go for an old used copy if I didn't have one already (or for the Penguin, as you suggest!). NB I would guess that an older Norton would be superior to the most recent, because older criticism is, from what I have seen, usually more intelligible than things written under the sway of fashionable (and, I suspect, highly perishable) theory.

 

[AE35Unit]

The Mammoth Book of Golden Age SF and Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.

Forever War is a good un- heres my review of it:
http://sfaddict.blogspot.co.uk/2009/06/discovering-classic.html

 

[AE35Unit]

Another from bookmooch, Voyage to the City of the Dead by Alan Dean Foster.

 

[Southern Geologist]

For Kindle:

Ian M. Banks- Consider Phlebas
Tom Godwin - The Cold Equations
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle - The Mote in God's Eye
William Patterson - Robert Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 1
Olaf Stapledon - Last and First Men, Star Maker

In the mail:

Anthony Boucher - A Treasury of Science Fiction, Vols. 1 & 2

I should be set for a while.

 

[Connavar]

One could also buy the Norton Critical edition of Paradise Lost for a reliable text. I'd go for an old used copy if I didn't have one already (or for the Penguin, as you suggest!). NB I would guess that an older Norton would be superior to the most recent, because older criticism is, from what I have seen, usually more intelligible than things written under the sway of fashionable (and, I suspect, highly perishable) theory.

Myself i would buy Norton one for the older criticism because like You i know the literary theories,criticism that is fashionable today in academical world. The librararian was pretty nice emailing me which edition i wanted. I will get Norton version for Myself later but right now i just wanted to read paradise lost because i cant afford all classics i want this year because i study, live on student Loan for My Uni studies. I have bought enough new books on My part time work pay.