Project Gutenberg 2005-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 56 Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804 1864 Time's Portraiture (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches") Reading ease score: 70.3 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by David Widger and Al Haines. "Time's Portraiture" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a prose piece that serves as the Carrier's Address to the patrons of "The Salem Gazette" for January 1, 1838. Written during the early to mid-19th century, this work reflects a blend of social commentary and poetic musings, centering on the theme of time and its impact on human life. The piece uses witty and humorous language to critique societal perceptions of time as well as its personification. In this address, the narrator—portraying a newspaper carrier—reflects on the character of Father Time, illustrating a more vibrant and socially engaged figure than traditional depictions suggest. Hawthorne's time is clad in fashionable attire, mingling with the people of Salem, and engaging in daily life while overshadowing their experiences with the relentless passage of time. The Carrier examines misconceptions about Time, highlighting his forgetfulness, shrewdness, and dual nature of comfort and misery that he brings to humanity. The piece culminates in a plea to the patrons for generosity to the carrier, simultaneously capturing the essence of human experience and the inevitability of time's march. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Time PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Philosophy & Ethics 44540 44541 2024-10-04T10:12:16.369218 2023-10-04T09:15:54.597567 text/html text/html 39776 2021-01-02T04:16:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 15620 2021-01-02T04:16:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 85850 2024-10-04T10:12:20.328196 application/epub+zip 84612 2024-10-04T10:12:18.152212 application/epub+zip 84612 2024-10-04T10:12:17.013217 application/epub+zip 179926 2024-10-04T10:12:21.900205 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 173321 2024-10-04T10:12:19.621197 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 168366 2022-09-05T03:36:10.925735 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 37089 37067 2024-10-04T10:12:16.122216 2023-10-04T09:15:54.441572 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 37007 2021-01-02T04:16:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14677 2021-01-02T04:16:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19150 2024-10-04T10:12:22.021184 application/rdf+xml 13311 2024-10-04T10:12:17.545215 image/jpeg 3578 2024-10-04T10:12:17.279218 image/jpeg 84386 2024-10-04T10:12:16.374226 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