The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Sünde
Nathaniel Hawthorne war amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Entdecken Sie interessante Zitate über sünde.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 63
(Original engl.: " It was a glimpse far backward into Arcadian life, or, further still, into the Golden Age, before mankind was burdened with sin and sorrow, and before pleasure had been darkened with those shadows that bring it into high relief, and make it happiness." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 9 The Faun and Nymph. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf09.html
Nathaniel Hawthorne: Der Marmorfaun (orig.: The Marble Fawn, 1860), aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Emi Ehm, Fischer Bücherei (Fischer Bibliothek der Hundert Bücher) Frankfurt am Main und Hamburg 1964, S. 302
(Original engl.: "At least, she might conclude that sin - which man chose instead of good - has been so beneficently handled by omniscience and omnipotence, that, whereas our dark enemy sought to destroy us by it, it has really become an instrument most effective in the education of intellect and soul." - The Marble Faun. Kapitel 47 The Peasant and Contadina Sculptor's Studio. http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/mf47.html