Project Gutenberg 2005-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 56 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 Sylph Etherege (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") Reading ease score: 68.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. David Widger "Sylph Etherege" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a short story written during the mid-19th century, a time noted for its romantic literary movements. This tale explores themes of love, fantasy, and the collision of dreams with reality, centering around a delicate and imaginative young woman named Sylvia Etherege who finds herself caught in a web of manipulation and romantic idealism. In the narrative, Sylvia, an orphan raised in seclusion, has long imagined her cousin Edgar Vaughan as her ideal lover, referring to her as "Sylph," reflecting her ethereal qualities. Upon his return from Europe, she is set to meet him for the first time. However, Edward Hamilton, a companion of Vaughan, darkly toys with Sylvia’s attachment to this fantasy by presenting himself as Vaughan and ultimately shattering her illusions by exposing the fabricated nature of her dreams. The story culminates with a deep exploration of Sylvia's emotional turmoil as she grapples with the loss of her idealized love, leading her to question her very existence and identity in a poignant conclusion that reveals the consequences of romantic fantasy clashing with harsh realities. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Short stories New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction Historical fiction, American PS Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - American Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 42441 42402 2024-11-04T09:52:03.837474 2023-10-04T09:14:40.536479 text/html text/html 42461 2022-05-16T01:44:49 text/html 78766 2024-11-04T09:52:07.701448 application/epub+zip 77730 2024-11-04T09:52:05.590457 application/epub+zip 77730 2024-11-04T09:52:04.404483 application/epub+zip 146665 2024-11-04T09:52:09.264455 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140556 2024-11-04T09:52:07.101497 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 127263 2022-09-05T03:34:31.302428 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 36273 36278 2024-11-04T09:52:03.574459 2023-10-04T09:14:40.367457 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 36053 2022-05-16T01:47:41 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 20214 2024-11-04T09:52:09.385456 application/rdf+xml 10593 2024-11-04T09:52:04.937460 image/jpeg 3068 2024-11-04T09:52:04.670489 image/jpeg 13932 2022-05-16T01:48:07 application/octet-stream application/zip 15156 2022-05-16T01:48:27 application/octet-stream application/zip 75522 2024-11-04T09:52:03.842481 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