Nathaniel Hawthorne Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Fanshawe (1828)
  2. The Devil in Manuscript (1835)
  3. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment (1837)
  4. The Scarlet Letter (1850)
  5. The Blithedale Romance (1851)
  6. The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
  7. The Marble Faun (1860)
  8. Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret; A Romance .. (1882)
  9. The Ancestral Footstep (1882)
  10. Septimius Felton (1978)
  11. The Gray Champion (2014)
  12. Grandfather’s Chair (2016)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. My Kinsman Major Molineux (1831)
  2. Young Goodman Brown (1835)
  3. The Minister’s Black Veil (1836)
  4. Endicott and the Red Cross (1837)
  5. The Birthmark (1843)
  6. Earth’s Holocaust (1844)
  7. Rappaccini’s Daughter (1844)
  8. The Golden Touch (1851)
  9. From the Snow Image (1864)
  10. The Dolliver Romance (1883)
  11. The Paradise of Children (1967)
  12. Great Stone Face (1970)
  13. The Ambitious Guest and Lady Eleanore’s Mantle (1980)
  14. The Three Golden Apples (1993)
  15. The Magic Pitcher (2005)
  16. The Christmas Banquet (2005)
  17. Main-Street (2005)
  18. Sights from a Steeple (2005)
  19. The Old Apple-Dealer (2005)
  20. Snowflakes (2005)
  21. Sunday at Home (2009)
  22. In Colonial Days (2010)
  23. Puritan Passions (2011)
  24. The Wedding-Knell (2013)
  25. The Wayside (2014)
  26. David Swan (2014)
  27. The Shaker Bridal (2014)
  28. The Antique Ring (2015)
  29. The Pomegranate Seeds (2015)
  30. The Light and the Lure (2016)
  31. Legends of the Province House (2017)
  32. Circe’s Palace (2018)
  33. The Gentle Boy (2018)
  34. Septimius Felton, or, The Elixir of Life (2019)

Collections In Publication Order

  1. Twice-Told Tales (1837)
  2. Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment and Other Stories (1837)
  3. Tales of the White Mountains (1846)
  4. Mosses from an Old Manse (1846)
  5. Tanglewood Tales (1851)
  6. Greek Myths (1851)
  7. A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1851)
  8. Our Old Home (1863)
  9. The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (1864)
  10. The Complete Novels and Selected Tales of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1937)
  11. Hawthorne’s Short Stories (1955)
  12. The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1959)
  13. Selected Tales and Sketches (1959)
  14. The Complete Greek Stories (1963)
  15. Twice-Told Tales and Other Short Stories (1964)
  16. Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1966)
  17. The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales (1970)
  18. The Great Short Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1977)
  19. The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings (1978)
  20. Haunting Tales (1980)
  21. Selected Stories (1982)
  22. Rappaccini’s Daughter, And Other Tales (1991)
  23. Selected Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (2002)
  24. Legends of the Province House and Other Twice-Told Tales (2009)
  25. The House of the Seven Gables and Other Tales (2009)
  26. Myths That Every Child Should Know (2011)
  27. The Birthmark & Five Other Tales (2013)
  28. Tales, Sketches, and Other Papers (2018)
  29. Little Daffydowndilly and Other Stories (2018)
  30. The Snow Image: and Other Twice-Told Tales (2019)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. Biographical Stories (1842)
  2. The New Adam and Eve (1846)
  3. Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa (1851)
  4. Life of Franklin Pierce (1852)
  5. Passages from the English notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1873)
  6. The American Notebooks (1932)
  7. Love Letters Of Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1839 1863 (1972)
  8. Letters of Hawthorne to William D. Ticknor, 1851-1864 (1972)
  9. Hawthorne’s Lost Notebook (1978)
  10. Hawthorne’s American Travel Sketches (1990)
  11. The French and Italian Note-Books (2013)
  12. True Stories from New England History, 1620-1803 (2016)
  13. Hawthorne’s First Diary (2018)
  14. Chiefly About War Matters (2019)
  15. True Stories from History and Biography (2019)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)
  2. 50 Great American Short Stories (1963)
  3. The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction (2010)

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Nathaniel Hawthorne Books Overview

Fanshawe

In an ancient though not very populous settlement, in a retired corner of one of the New England States, arise the walls of a seminary of learning, which, for the convenience of a name, shall be entitled ‘Harley College.’ This institution, though the number of its years is inconsiderable compared with the ho*ar antiquity of its European sisters, is not without some claims to reverence on the score of age; for an almost countless multitude of rivals, by many of which its reputation has been eclipsed, have sprung up since its foundation. At no time, indeed, during an existence of nearly a century, has it acquired a very extensive fame; and circumstances, which need not be particularized, have, of late years, involved it in a deeper obscurity. There are now few candidates for the degrees that the college is authorized to bestow. On two of its annual ‘Commencement Days,’ there has been a total deficiency of baccalaureates; and the lawyers and divines, on whom doctorates in their respective professions are gratuitously inflicted, are not accustomed to consider the distinction as an honor. Yet the sons of this seminary have always maintained their full share of reputation, in whatever paths of life they trod. Few of them, perhaps, have been deep and finished scholars; but the college has supplied what the emergencies of the country demanded a set of men more useful in its present state, and whose deficiency in theoretical knowledge has not been found to imply a want of practical ability.

Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment

Dr. Heidegger experiments with four of his friends by giving them water supposedly from the Fountain of Youth.

The Scarlet Letter

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. America’s first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected public figure who is inwardly tormented by long hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hester s husband a man who seethes with an Ahab like lust for vengeance.

The landscape of this classic novel is uniquely American, but the themes it explores are universal the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek tragedy, The Scarlet Letter brilliantly illuminates the truth that lies deep within the human heart.

Nancy Stade is trained as a lawyer and has worked in the federal government and the private sector. She currently lives in Mexico, where she is working on a novel.

The Blithedale Romance

This new Norton Critical Edition of Hawthorne’s innovative 1852 novel helps readers navigate and appreciate its elusive plot, powerful characters, and maddening narrator. This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations to help readers with Hawthorne s many historical and literary references as well as with other possible sources of difficulty in the text. Contexts is thematically organized and includes a rich and varied selection of materials, both public and private, focusing on Hawthorne s inspirations for the novel. Included are letters, excerpts from journals, published accounts of Brook Farm and the growth of antebellum social reform, Hawthorne s letters to Sophia Peabody and Louisa Hawthorne about his first days at Brook Farm, and later letters describing his growing reservations about and decision to leave the utopian community. The Blithedale Romance raises interesting questions about the role of women, the popularity of mesmerism, and the growth of cities in mid nineteenth century America. Margaret Fuller, Charles Baudelaire, and Hawthorne, among others, provide invaluable insight. Criticism begins with major contemporary reviews by Herman Melville, William B. Pike, George S. Hillard, James T. Fields, Henry Fothergill Chorley, and others that suggest The Blithedale Romance s initial reception. Selections from Classic Studies reprints key excerpts from influential essays published through the 1970s, including those by Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Irving Howe, and James McIntosh. Recent Criticism collects a striking range of scholarly interpretation by Nina Baym, Joel Pfister, Gillian Brown, Richard H. Brodhead, Lauren Berlant, Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine, and Richard H. Millington. A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

The House of the Seven Gables

The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Greed, treachery, mesmerism, and murder are just some of the bricks Hawthorne uses to build The House of the Seven Gables. Generations before the present story begins, wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets Matthew Maule’s land. When Maule is hanged for witchcraft, he puts a curse on the Colonel and all his descendants. Now the menacing Judge Pyncheon continues the family tradition of hiding cruelty under a dazzling smile, while his scowling niece, Hepzibah, and half mad nephew, Clifford, are reduced to poverty by his machinations. But the younger generation, embodied in their distant cousin, Phoebe, becomes a ray of hope penetrating the dark house. Though Hawthorne openly discusses his book s moral in its preface, The House of the Seven Gables is no dry sermon. In fact, a strong stream of poetic fantasy runs through it, which the author acknowledges by calling it a romance, rather than a novel. Like his other great works, The House of the Seven Gables reflects Hawthorne s rich understanding of complex motives, of individuals caught in the unending struggle between our highest aspirations and our basest desires. Gordon Tapper, Associate Professor of English at DePauw University, is the author of The Machine That Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body. He also wrote the Introduction and Notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Willa Cather s My ntonia.

The Marble Faun

The fragility and the durability of human life and art dominate this story of American expatriates in Italy in the mid nineteenth century. Befriended by Donatello, a young Italian with the classical grace of the ‘Marble Faun,’ Miriam, Hilda, and Kenyon find their pursuit of art taking a sinister turn as Miriam’s unhappy past precipitates the present into tragedy. Hawthorne’s ‘International Novel’ dramatizes the confrontation of the Old World and the New and the uncertain relationship between the ‘authentic’ and the ‘fake’ in life as in art. The author’s evocative descriptions of classic sites made The Marble Faun a favorite guidebook to Rome for Victorian tourists, but this richly ambiguous symbolic romance is also the story of a murder, and a parable of the Fall of Man. As the characters find their civilized existence disrupted by the awful consequences of impulse, Hawthorne leads his readers to question the value of Art and Culture and addresses the great evolutionary debate which was beginning to shake Victorian society. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Ancestral Footstep

Not a whit,’ said the old man. ‘England will never understand America; for England never does understand a foreign country; and whatever you may say about kindred, America is as much a foreign country as France itself. These two hundred years of a different climate and circumstances of life on a broad continent instead of in an island, to say nothing of the endless intermixture of nationalities in every part of the United States, except New England have created a new and decidedly original type of national character. It is as well for both parties that they should not aim at any very intimate connection. It will never do.

Septimius Felton

Although Septimius Felton appeared so much later than The Marble Faun, it was conceived and, in another form, begun before the Italian romance had presented itself to the author’s mind. The legend of a bloody foot leaving its imprint where it passed, which figures so prominently in the following fiction, was brought to Hawthorne’s notice on a visit to Smithell’s Hall, Lancashire, England. Hawthorne went there by invitation, where the lady of the manor asked him ‘to write a ghost story for her house;’ and he observes in his notes, ‘the legend is a good one.’ He wrote in his English journal: ‘God himself cannot compensate us for being born for any period short of eternity. All the misery endured here constitutes a claim for another life, and still more all the happiness; because all true happiness involves something more than the earth owns, and needs something more than a mortal capacity for the enjoyment of it.’ from George Parsons Lathrop’s Introduction

My Kinsman Major Molineux

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Young Goodman Brown

In the interval of silence he stole forward until the light glared full upon his eyes. At one extremity of an open space, hemmed in by the dark wall of the forest, arose a rock, bearing some rude, natural resemblance either to an alter or a pulpit, and surrounded by four blazing pines, their tops aflame, their stems untouched, like candles at an evening meeting. The mass of foliage that had overgrown the summit of the rock was all on fire, blazing high into the night and fitfully illuminating the whole field. Each pendent twig and leafy festoon was in a blaze. As the red light arose and fell, a numerous congregation alternately shone forth, then disappeared in shadow, and again grew, as it were, out of the darkness, peopling the heart of the solitary woods at once. ‘A grave and dark clad company,’ quoth Goodman Brown. In truth they were such.

The Minister’s Black Veil

Kindle edition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic short story about a minister who wears a black veil to hide his secret sin.

Earth’s Holocaust

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Rappaccini’s Daughter

Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror story, Rappaccini’s Daughter is an inspired tale of creation and control. It is published here with two additional short stories by Hawthorne: Young Goodman Brown and A Select Party. Giovanni Guasconti, a student at the University of Padua, is enchanted to discover a nearby garden of the most exquisite beauty. In it abides a young woman, perhaps the most beautiful Giovanni has ever seen. Yet as he looks out from an upstairs window, he soon learns that the garden and the matchless Beatrice are not the work of Mother Nature, but rather the result of a monstrous abomination of creativity. An ingenious biblical parody, the tale s fantastical quality is brilliantly echoed in the two accompanying short stories. Read together, they display all Hawthorne s gifts as a storyteller. Novelist, essayist, and moralist, Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America s greatest writers, best known for his remarkable novel The Scarlet Letter.

The Dolliver Romance

The manuscript of the unfinished DOLLIVER ROMANCE lay upon his coffin during the funeral services at Concord, but, contrary to the impression sometimes entertained on this point, was not buried with him. It is preserved in the Concord Public Library. The first chapter was published in the ATLANTIC as an isolated portion, soon after his death; and subsequently the second chapter, which he had been unable to revise, appeared in the same periodical…
. Beginning with the idea of producing an English romance, fragments of which remain to us in ‘The Ancestral Footstep,’ and the incomplete work known as DOCTOR GRIMSHAWE’S SECRET, he replaced these by another design, of which SEPTIMIUS FELTON represents the partial execution. But that elaborate study yielded, in its turn, to The Dolliver Romance.

The Paradise of Children

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Great Stone Face

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The Christmas Banquet

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Main-Street

MAIN STRRET 1901 PREFACE IT WAS OIIC of the early literary projects of Nathnnicl Hawthornc to put life into the dead body of New England historical annals, How lifeless those annals were we may discover by hunting them up on the dust covered shelves of antiquarian libraries and the cnterprise of endowing them with bloom and fragrance would seein as hopeless an one as could be proposed to a literary man. But Hawthornc possessed creative genius, and that made all the difference. He himself was able to see through the veil of the printed page of the old annalist, and to behold risiug before his imaginative vision, the world and the personages that had been, warm with life and glowing with color and passion. This vision he aimed to con municate, b y the art of lucid and vivid portrayal and suggestion, in which he has had no superior, to his fellow citizens by this beneficent spell he wrought upon them to make the acquaintance of their own past. It was in work of this kind, having this tendency, that the foundation of his genius first declared itself and it is not unlikely that, for several ycars, Hawthorne cherished the purpose of covering the elltire historical ground of New England in this manner. And although the attraction towards purely imaginative work, especially in the creation of character, became too strong for him to resist it, yet it will be noticed that even in his famous romances The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and The Blithedale Romance, and, at the end of his life, in the posthumous stories of Septimius and The Dolliver Romance, he uniformly kept very close to a historical background and basis and the characters were carefully modelled to be in heping with the historical period. These hooks might be regarded as historical illustrations, in somewhat the same sense that the volumes of Balzacs Comedie Humaine illustrate the social aspects of Paris and France, though, of course, with less realistic attention to detail. But, in addition to these, there are many short pieces which are technically historical both in character and episode, though illuminated, as has been said, by the power of seeing the past as present which distinguished the author. Were all these pieces to be collected, and chronologically arranged, they would be found to comprise no small part of New England history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Probably no better example of the kind of work under discussion could be selected than the little narrative which is contained in this volume. It was written before Hawthorne had attained an international reputation, and is concerned with the progress of civilization in the region which gave him birth the venerable town of Salern, in Rfaseachusetts. The books upon the subject which were published at the time Hawthorne wrote, were few, and their contents were dry and unattractive to the last degree very likely they were supplemented by traditions and tales handed down from generation to generation, which had come to his knowledge when, as a boy, he sat by the broad hearthstone of his old fashioned home, and listened to legends and accounts of personal experience from the mouths of the old men and women of that day, now seventy or eighty years gone by. Hawthorne was born in 1804 and the memories of those who were old when he was young, went back nearly to the beginning of the previous century, and mere re enforced by lore derived from their own forbears, which extended to the early years of the New England settlement. The mind of the boy was fertile soil, and in due season it reproduced what seeds had been dropped into it, rich and sumptuous with a new life…

Septimius Felton, or, The Elixir of Life

Although Septimius Felton appeared so much later than The Marble Faun, it was conceived and, in another form, begun before the Italian romance had presented itself to the author’s mind. The legend of a bloody foot leaving its imprint where it passed, which figures so prominently in the following fiction, was brought to Hawthorne’s notice on a visit to Smithell’s Hall, Lancashire, England. Hawthorne went there by invitation, where the lady of the manor asked him ‘to write a ghost story for her house;’ and he observes in his notes, ‘the legend is a good one.’ He wrote in his English journal: ‘God himself cannot compensate us for being born for any period short of eternity. All the misery endured here constitutes a claim for another life, and still more all the happiness; because all true happiness involves something more than the earth owns, and needs something more than a mortal capacity for the enjoyment of it.’ from George Parsons Lathrop’s Introduction

Twice-Told Tales

‘Twice Told Tales’ is one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most loved collections of short stories. Presented here is the complete collection of tales which includes the following: The Gray Champion, Sunday at Home, The Wedding Knell, The Minister’s Black Veil, The Maypole of Merry Mount, The Gentle Boy, Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe, Little Annie’s Ramble, Wakefield, A Rill From the Town Pump, The Great Carbuncle, The Prophetic Pictures, David Swan, Sights From a Steeple, The Hollow of the Three Hills, The Toll Gatherer’s Day, The Vision of the Fountain, Fancy’s Show=Box, Dr. Heidegger’s Experiement, Legends of the Province House: I. Howe’s Masquerade, II. Edward Randolph’s Portrait, III. Lady Eleanore’s Mantle, IV. Old Esther Dudley, The Haunted Mind, The Village Uncle, The Ambitious Guest, The Sister Years, Snowflakes, The Seven Vagabonds, The White Old Maid, Peter Goldthwaite’s Treasure, Chippings with a Chisel, The Shaker Bridal, Night Sketches, Endicott and the Red Cross, The Lily’s Quest, Footprints on the Seashore, Edward Fane’s Rosebud, and The Threefold Destiny.

Tales of the White Mountains

Tales from the White Mountains is a collection of four of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s evocative short stories, all set in the eponymous mountains of New Hampshire which captured his imagination. ‘The Great Stone Face’ is the story of a gentle man who longs for the fulfillment of a prophecy; ‘The Ambitious Guest’ relates the last night of a loving family in a cabin high above a valley; ‘The Great Carbuncle’ is a morality tale inspired by a Native American legend of a gem hidden in the mountains; and ‘Sketches from Memory’ relates Hawthorne’s recollections of his own travels which provided material for the other tales in this volume. Haunting and atmospheric, these stories demonstrate what has made Hawthorne one of America’s most distinctive and well loved writers.

Mosses from an Old Manse

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Tanglewood Tales

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A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys

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NOTES. The Gorgon’s Head. Page 21. Set them afloat upon the sea. Hawthorne does not say that it was the grandfather of Perseus, Acrisius, king of Argos, who put him and his mother into the chest and set them afloat. It had been foretold that Acrisius should meet his death at the hands of his grandson, and he sought to free himself from the danger. A fisherman. Dictys. Page 27. My sister. Minerva, the goddess of wisdom. Page 28. Three Gray Women. The Grseae, or Phorcydes, daughters of Phorcys and Ceto. They were gray haired from birth, whence the name Grate. They were always associated with their sisters the Gorgons, whose guards they were. Page 33. Sister Scarecrow, etc. The individual names which Hawthorne gives to the Three Gray Women are free renderings of their Greek names. Page 35. Helmet of darkness. This was the special property of Pluto. Page 41. On the shore of that island. The Greek poet Hesiod represented the Gorgons as living in the islands of the sea, but the later poets generally gave them a dwelling place in Libya. Page 42. Medusa was the only one. The other Gorgons were immortal. Page 45. A beautiful maiden. Andromeda. An enormous giant. Atlas. Page 48. They whitened into marble. The island of Seriphus is very rocky, and from this fact some scholars trace the origin of the story that King Polydectes and his people were turned into stone. The Golden Touch. ‘Page 56. Sweetest roses. Midas is said to have had a garden in which grew roses having sixty petals and the most wonderful fragrance. An idle story about his ears. Pan, having aspired to rival Apollo in music, was adjudged vanquished; but Midas refused to acquiesce in this decision, and Apollo therefore changed his ears to those of an ass, in token of his stupidity. Page 60. The Golden Touch. The usual story of th…

Our Old Home

c mmu HOIJGHTOn, l. tIPFLllI AHD COMPANY Our Old Home BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY gC e Kibettftte JJretftf, Cambrttje COPYRIGHT, 1863, BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE COPYRIGHT, 1891, BY ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTORY NOTE…
ix DEDICATION TO A FRIEND xvii CONSULAR EXPERIENCES . . I LEAMINGTON SPA…
.. 52 ABOUT WARWICK . ,…
89 RECOLLECTIONS OF A GIFTED WOMAN . . 126 LICHFIELD AND UTTOXETER…
173 PILGRIMAGE TO OLD BOSTON…
201 NEAR OXFORD…

24.3 SOME OF THE HAUNTS OF BURNS . . 281 A LONDON SUBURB…
. . 311 UP THE THAMES…
.. 355 OUTSIDE GLIMPSES OF ENGLISH POVERTY . 406 CIVIC BANQUETS…
. . 455 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE WARWICK. CASTLE page 91 . E. C. Peixotto Frontispiece VIGNETTE ON ENGRAVED TITLE PAGE ST Bo TOLPHS TOWER, OLD BOSTON page 225 LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL FROM THE WEST. . 180 SALISBURY CATHEDRAL FROM THE FIELDS . aio From a photograph by Clifton Johnson MAGDALEN COLLEGE, OXFORD, FROM THE CHERWELL 278 THE AULD BRIG o DOON, AYR…
. 306 INTRODUCTORY NOTE WHEN Hawthorne was well established at The Wayside in Concord, with his books and papers about him, he turned to the seven closely written volumes of journal which he had sent home before leaving England for the Continent, and availed himself of his notes to write from month to month the papers which appeared in The Atlantic at intervals from 1860 to 1863, an d when collected into a volume, with the prefatory paper on his Consular Ex periences then first printed, took the compre hensive title, Our Old Home. Hawthorne was in a despondent mood when writing out these papers, due in part to physi cal depression, in part to his dejection over the political situation and it is fortunate that in writing he was not dependent on his memory, else it is to be feared he might have injected some of his present humor. We must re member, he said whimsically, cc that there is a good deal of intellectual ice mingled with this wine of memory. Mr. Fields, who was then editing the Atlantic cheered him with reports of the pleasure he was giving, and Hawthorne wrote

The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories

The master storyteller in short form

Famous for his novels, Hawthorne was first a short story writer. This collection includes his most powerful and penetrating stories, including ‘Young Goodman Brown’ and ‘The Minister’s Black Veil.’

Hawthorne’s Short Stories

Here are the best of Hawthorne’s Short Stories. There are twenty four of them not only the most familiar, but also many that are virtually unknown to the average reader. The selection was made by Professor Newton Arvin of Smith College, a recognized authority on Hawthorne and a distinguished literary critic as well. His fine introduction admirably interprets Hawthorne’s mind and art.

Selected Tales and Sketches

This book presents the short fiction of a writer who helped to shape the course of American literature. With a determined commitment to the history of his native land, Nathaniel Hawthorne revealed, more incisively than any writer of his generation, the nature of a distinctly American consciousness. The pieces collected here deal with essentially American matters: the Puritan past, the Indians, and, the Revolution. But Hawthorne was highly often wickedly unorthodox in his account of life in early America, and his precisely constructed plots quickly engage the reader’s imagination. Written in the 1820s, 30s, and 40s, these works are informed by themes that reappear in Hawthorne’s longer works: ‘The Scarlet Letter’, ‘The House of the Seven Gables’ and ‘The Blithedale Romance’. And, as Michael J. Colacurcio points out in his excellent introduction, they are themes that are now deeply embedded in the American literary tradition.

Twice-Told Tales and Other Short Stories

Nathaniel Hawthorne, perhaps more than any other writer, summed up the New England Puritan tradition. His great great grandfather, Major Wielliam Hathorne, came from England to America on the ship that brought the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His great grandfather was one of the judges in the witchcraft trials. both his sea captain father and his mother were lean jawed Puritans. A leader in the development of the short story as a distinctive American genre, Hawthorne wrote masterpieces of romantic fiction with an emphasis on moral significance. In these famous tales, as in his novels, Hawthorne shows in an imaginative and allegorical fashion his concern with the results of the Puritanism that was at the roots of the culture of his time.

Selected Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne

From the author who gave us THE SCARLET LETTER and THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES, here is a comprehensive selection of his best short stories, including:
Endicott and the Red Cross
Young Goodman Brown
Earth’s Holocaust
Ethan Brand
My Kinsman, Major Molineux
And more!

The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. America’s first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected public figure who is inwardly tormented by long hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hester s husband a man who seethes with an Ahab like lust for vengeance.

The landscape of this classic novel is uniquely American, but the themes it explores are universal the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek tragedy, The Scarlet Letter brilliantly illuminates the truth that lies deep within the human heart.

Nancy Stade is trained as a lawyer and has worked in the federal government and the private sector. She currently lives in Mexico, where she is working on a novel.

The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. America’s first psychological novel, Nathaniel Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter is a dark tale of love, crime, and revenge set in colonial New England. It revolves around a single, forbidden act of passion that forever alters the lives of three members of a small Puritan community: Hester Prynne, an ardent and fierce woman who bears the punishment of her sin in humble silence; the Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale, a respected public figure who is inwardly tormented by long hidden guilt; and the malevolent Roger Chillingworth, Hester s husband a man who seethes with an Ahab like lust for vengeance.

The landscape of this classic novel is uniquely American, but the themes it explores are universal the nature of sin, guilt, and penitence, the clash between our private and public selves, and the spiritual and psychological cost of living outside society. Constructed with the elegance of a Greek tragedy, The Scarlet Letter brilliantly illuminates the truth that lies deep within the human heart.

Nancy Stade is trained as a lawyer and has worked in the federal government and the private sector. She currently lives in Mexico, where she is working on a novel.

Selected Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Beautiful brown leather bound w/gold gilded lettering and border. Contains The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, and Twice Told Tales.

Legends of the Province House and Other Twice-Told Tales

Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804 1864 was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nation’s colonial history. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, where his birthplace is now a museum. William Hathorne, who emigrated from England in 1630, was the first of Hawthorne’s ancestors to arrive in the colonies. Hawthorne attended Bowdoin College at the expense of an uncle from 1821 to 1824, befriending classmates Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and future president Franklin Pierce. Hawthorne is best known today for his many short stories he called them ‘tales’ and his four major romances written between 1850 and 1860: The Scarlet Letter 1850, The House of the Seven Gables 1851, The Blithedale Romance 1852 and The Marble Faun 1860. Another novel length romance, Fanshawe was published anonymously in 1828. Hawthorne’s work belongs to Romanticism, an artistic and intellectual movement characterized by an emphasis on individual freedom from social conventions or political restraints, on human imagination, and on nature in a typically idealized form.

The House of the Seven Gables and Other Tales

The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Greed, treachery, mesmerism, and murder are just some of the bricks Hawthorne uses to build The House of the Seven Gables. Generations before the present story begins, wealthy Colonel Pyncheon covets Matthew Maule’s land. When Maule is hanged for witchcraft, he puts a curse on the Colonel and all his descendants. Now the menacing Judge Pyncheon continues the family tradition of hiding cruelty under a dazzling smile, while his scowling niece, Hepzibah, and half mad nephew, Clifford, are reduced to poverty by his machinations. But the younger generation, embodied in their distant cousin, Phoebe, becomes a ray of hope penetrating the dark house. Though Hawthorne openly discusses his book s moral in its preface, The House of the Seven Gables is no dry sermon. In fact, a strong stream of poetic fantasy runs through it, which the author acknowledges by calling it a romance, rather than a novel. Like his other great works, The House of the Seven Gables reflects Hawthorne s rich understanding of complex motives, of individuals caught in the unending struggle between our highest aspirations and our basest desires. Gordon Tapper, Associate Professor of English at DePauw University, is the author of The Machine That Sings: Modernism, Hart Crane, and the Culture of the Body. He also wrote the Introduction and Notes to the Barnes & Noble Classics edition of Willa Cather s My ntonia.

The Snow Image: and Other Twice-Told Tales

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world’s literature.

The New Adam and Eve

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa

On July 28, 1851, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s wife Sophia and daughters Una and Rose left their house in Western Massachusetts to visit relatives near Boston. Hawthorne and his five year old son Julian stayed behind. How father and son got along over the next three weeks is the subject of this tender and funny extract from Hawthorne’s notebooks.’At about six o’clock I looked over the edge of my bed and saw that Julian was awake, peeping sideways at me.’ Each day starts early and is mostly given over to swimming and skipping stones, berry picking and subduing armies of thistles. There are lots of questions ‘It really does seem as if he has baited me with more questions, references, and observations, than mortal father ought to be expected to endure’, a visit to a Shaker community, domestic crises concerning a pet rabbit, and some poignant moments of loneliness ‘I went to bed at about nine and longed for Phoebe’. And one evening Mr. Herman Melville comes by to enjoy a late night discussion of eternity over cigars. With an introduction by Paul Auster that paints a beautifully observed, intimate picture of the Hawthornes at home, this little known, true life story by a great American writer emerges from obscurity to shine a delightful light upon family life then and now.

Life of Franklin Pierce

The Life of Franklin Pierce was written as a ‘campaign life’ shortly before the election of Pierce to the presidency in 1852.

Passages from the English notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne

This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library’s preservation reformatting program.

The American Notebooks

Contains selections from Hawthorne’s journals from 1835 to 1853, shortly before his departure for England, as well as some extracts from his letters within the same period. This title also contains many initial ideas which were to become stories and parts of romances, as well as meticulous observations of people and nature.

Letters of Hawthorne to William D. Ticknor, 1851-1864

Publisher: The Carteret Book Club Publication date: 1910 Subjects: Authors, American Biography

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction

The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years’ worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher’s guide at www. wesleyan. edu/wespress/sfanthologyguide accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world’s most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.

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