Jan 3, 2010

Ethan Brand | Ethan Brand

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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Ethan Brand | Ethan Brand

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The Story

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