Secretul doctorului Grimshawe

De Nathaniel Hawthorne

O legenda englezeasca, venita din strafundul istoriei unei vechi familii, starneste imaginatia unui copil orfan, crescut de ciudatul doctor Grimshawe, un savant neinteles si ratat, care iubeste paianjenii si incearca sa obtina medicamentul minune din panza acestora. Dupa multi ani de la moartea doctorului, la fel de misterioasa ca intreaga lui viata, tanarul face o calatorie in Anglia pe urmele tulburatoarei legende si afla, printre altele care era secretul tutorelui sau si al fetitei cu care copilarise in casa de langa cimitirul unui orasel din Noua Anglie.

• Limbă: Română
• Editor: Aldo Press
• Data lansării: 4 mai 2012
• ISBN: 9789737011312

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born is Salem, Massachusetts in 1804. His father died when he was four years old. His first novel, Fanshawe, was published anonymously at his own expense in 1828. He later disowned the novel and burned the remaining copies. For the next twenty years he made his living as a writer of tales and children's stories. He assured his reputation with the publication of The Scarlet Letter in 1850 and The House of the Seven Gables the following year. In 1853 he was appointed consul in Liverpool, England, where he lived for four years. He died in 1864.