Project Gutenberg 2005-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 73 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 Sights from a Steeple (From "Twice Told Tales") Reading ease score: 63.0 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twice-Told_Tales Produced by David Widger "Sights from a Steeple (From 'Twice Told Tales')" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a reflective work that can be classified as a short story, written during the mid-19th century, a time marked by Romanticism in literature. The piece meditates on observation and perception, offering a unique perspective from a steeple overlooking a town, capturing the essence of human experience and the blend of the mundane with the profound as the narrator contemplates life, nature, and the human condition. In this narrative, the speaker, stationed high atop a steeple, surveys the world below with curiosity and introspection. He beholds various scenes: young lovers strolling, merchants engaged in labor, children mimicking soldiers, and a funeral procession—a juxtaposition of life’s joy and sorrow. The shifting weather mirrors these human experiences as a storm looms, and Hawthorne captures the interplay between the natural world and human emotions. The narrator's longing for deeper connection with the lives unfolding below heightens a sense of existential contemplation, culminating in a moment of hope as the sun breaks through the clouds, illuminating the chaos with a beautiful rainbow. This story encapsulates Hawthorne's interest in the complexity of human emotions and the beauty found even amidst struggle. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Historical fiction, American PS Text Children's Literature Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 41993 41994 2024-12-04T09:41:28.032172 2023-10-04T09:11:58.484654 text/html text/html 37185 2021-01-02T00:10:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 14833 2021-01-02T00:10:08 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 101227 2024-12-04T09:41:33.644151 application/epub+zip 100043 2024-12-04T09:41:31.449069 application/epub+zip 76422 2024-12-04T09:41:30.238065 application/epub+zip 240288 2024-12-04T09:41:35.171057 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 234071 2024-12-04T09:41:32.892087 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 201293 2022-09-05T03:30:49.579629 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34660 34653 2024-12-04T09:41:27.799100 2023-10-04T09:11:58.330634 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 34624 2021-01-02T00:10:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 13940 2021-01-02T00:10:08 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20866 2024-12-04T09:41:35.290047 application/rdf+xml 18443 2024-12-04T09:41:30.768063 image/jpeg 4183 2024-12-04T09:41:30.504075 image/jpeg 100716 2024-12-04T09:41:28.037155 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia