Project Gutenberg 2005-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 81 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 A Bell's Biography Reading ease score: 65.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales" David Widger "A Bell's Biography" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a reflective piece written during the early to mid-19th century. This work is a blend of philosophical essay and narrative biography, centering on the life of a bell that has witnessed significant historical events and transformations around it. The topic revolves around the bell's journey from its origins to its place in society, serving as a symbol of the passage of time and the shared experiences of humans. In this narrative, Hawthorne personifies the bell, giving it a voice that recalls its storied past from a French chapel to a meeting house in New England. The bell has seen the conversion of Native Americans, the tumult of war, and the passage of generations, tolling for weddings and funerals alike. Its sound evokes a multitude of human emotions and events, from joy to sorrow, linking the personal to the communal. Hawthorne explores themes of mortality, memory, and the continuity of life through the bell's enduring resonance, ultimately suggesting that despite the toll of time, the core of human experience remains unchanged. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Bells PS Text Browsing: Literature 40571 40532 2024-10-04T10:10:23.990291 2023-10-04T09:14:36.466434 text/html text/html 40652 2022-05-16T01:23:58 text/html 87795 2024-10-04T10:10:28.707282 application/epub+zip 86779 2024-10-04T10:10:26.597287 application/epub+zip 81469 2024-10-04T10:10:25.485289 application/epub+zip 171403 2024-10-04T10:10:30.283257 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 165078 2024-10-04T10:10:28.073275 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 139631 2022-09-05T03:34:25.296387 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34879 34884 2024-10-04T10:10:23.737325 2023-10-04T09:14:36.302417 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 34667 2022-05-16T01:26:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18698 2024-10-04T10:10:30.407277 application/rdf+xml 12532 2024-10-04T10:10:26.026292 image/jpeg 3521 2024-10-04T10:10:25.758292 image/jpeg 13841 2022-05-16T01:27:06 application/octet-stream application/zip 15059 2022-05-16T01:27:26 application/octet-stream application/zip 84523 2024-10-04T10:10:23.995295 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