Ethan Brand (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- First Published: 1850
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Sometime before 1850
- Setting: Western Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Ethan Brand, Bartram, Joe, Old Humphrey, The doctor, The Jew
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Sin or Original sin, Emotions, Ethics, Devils or demons, Intellect, Satan or Satanism
- Locales: Massachusetts
The Story
Old Bartram and his young son are burning marble into lime in their isolated kiln when they are disturbed by a strange, mirthless laugh. Soon the laugh is followed by the appearance of a mysterious man who identifies himself as Ethan Brand. Bartram recognizes him instantly, as he has heard village tales of a man by that name who left the village eighteen years earlier in search of the Unpardonable Sin. When Bartram asks if his search has been successful, Brand ruefully confesses that, after all of his wanderings and inquiries, he found the Unpardonable Sin in his own...
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