| Description |
xii, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
The Hawthorne beginnings -- The Manning years -- Preparing for college -- Bowdoin College -- The chamber under the eaves -- Of puritans, quakers, and witches -- "The story-teller" -- Twice-told tales -- Duels: comic and tragic -- The Peabodys -- Port-admiral -- Mr. Ripley's utopia -- Eden revisited -- Calm summer of heart and mind -- The expulsion -- "Decapitation" -- The scarlet letter -- In the Berkshires -- The house of the seven gables --The blithedale romance -- "We are politicians now" -- Prime Minister -- Return to your old home -- "Pegasus in a yoke" -- England and the English -- Novelist as consul -- Art and artists in Italy -- The marble faun -- They wayside after seven years -- A divided nation and divided minds -- Romances in fragments -- "Nearer to the way-side inn" |
| Summary |
A biography of the 19th-century American author of "The Scarlet Letter," "The House of the Seven Gables," and other works |
| Analysis |
Fiction in English American writers Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Biographies |
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Fiction in English American writers Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 Biographies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
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Novelists, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
78021988 |
| ISBN |
0195025474 |
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