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Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 2 (of 2) By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Hint: You can preview this book by clicking on "Preview" which is located under the cover of this book. About the author: Nathaniel Hawthorne... More > (/ˈhɔːˌθɔːrn/; born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, Dark Romantic, and short story writer.He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, the only judge involved in the Salem witch trials who never repented of his actions. Nathaniel later added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne" in order to hide this relation. He entered Bowdoin College in 1821, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in 1824, and graduated in 1825. Hawthorne published his first work, a novel titled Fanshawe, in 1828; he later tried to suppress it, feeling it was not equal to the standard of his later work. Excerpt from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Hawthorne< Less

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The Scarlet Letter followed by Hawthorne By Nathaniel Hawthorne & Henry James

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This book contains a major novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, enriched and complemented by an analytical work of Henry James concerning the author and the novel. “The Scarlet Letter”: A... More > Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. “Hawthorne” is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and some of his nonfiction.< Less

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THE SCARLET LETTER FOLLOWED BY HAWTHORNE By Nathaniel Hawthorne & Henry James

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“The Scarlet Letter”: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his... More > "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. “Hawthorne” is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and some of his nonfiction. The book became somewhat controversial for a famous section where James enumerated the items of novelistic interest he thought were absent from American life.< Less

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The Scarlet Letter followed by Hawthorne By Nathaniel Hawthorne & Henry James

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“The Scarlet Letter”: A Romance is an 1850 work of fiction in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his... More > "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt. “Hawthorne” is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and some of his nonfiction. The book became somewhat controversial for a famous section where James enumerated the items of novelistic interest he thought were absent from American life.< Less

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Early Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne By Amanda Stevens

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A collection of early Nathaniel Hawthorne short stories selected by Amanda Stevens

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The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne By Andy Six

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There is a ghost story in the diary, quite original, and told with an air of excellent credibility; and also a short anthropomorphic romance concerning a badly treated horse, full of genuine pathos... More > and kindly sympathy,--more sympathetic, in fact, than Hawthorne's later stories, in which he is sometimes almost too reserved and unemotional:< Less

Greatest Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, Septimius Felton, Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories, The Snow Image & Tanglewood Tales

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Greatest Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, Septimius Felton, Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories, The Snow Image & Tanglewood Tales By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) was an American novelist. Nathaniel added a "w" to make his name "Hawthorne" in order to hide this relation with his ancestor John Hathorne, the... More > only judge involved in the Salem witch trials. His fiction works, centers on New England, are considered part of the dark romanticism movement. The depictions of the past are used only as a vehicle to express common themes of ancestral sin, guilt and retribution. His later writings also reflect his negative view of the Transcendentalism movement. Evert Augustus Duyckinck said of Hawthorne, "Of the American writers destined to live, he is the most original, the one least indebted to foreign models or literary precedents of any kind". This collection, contains his complete novels and his greatest short stories, in their original editions: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, Septimius Felton, Twice-Told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Snow Image & Tanglewood Tales.< Less

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The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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“Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!” In the seventeenth-century Puritan community of Boston, Hester Prynne is... More > trapped, first into a loveless marriage and then into adultery. With the scarlet letter ‘A’—signifying an adulteress—fixed on her bosom, she is brought out of the prison and made to stand on the scaffold with her infant. What happens when Hester, in spite of being publicly shamed by the crowd and repeatedly urged by a young priest, refuses to reveal the identity of her daughter’s father? A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s the Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity and double standards of the society. One of the first mass-produced books in America, it became an instant bestseller on its first publication in 1850. it continues to remain Hawthorne’s masterwork.< Less