Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864 ... an enduring sense of mystery and chaos just beneath the surface of everyday life, of the burden of the past borne by the present, of the persistence of evil ...

Then, as now, The Life of Franklin Pierce (which the same review called a “venal homage to ambitious mediocrity”) seemed beneath the talents of Nathaniel Hawthorne. The easy explanation for ...

Life in the Custom Houses of Boston and Salem; G. E. Jepson in Boston Herald ...

The inspiration for Hawthorne’s second novel, The House of the Seven Gables, stems from this family history. In the book, the fictional Pyncheon family lives in a mansion based on the real-life ...

When Nathaniel Hawthorne published the novel ... or to have people see me,” he said. According to Hawthorne: A Life, “Biographical legend insists that The Scarlet Letter was composed in ...

Fields, in February 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne washed his hands of the manuscript ... “Nothing brings an author’s humanity to life in quite the same way as one of their used books,” says ...

The novel literally saves her life. “She’d thought her only ... falls in love with Nathaniel Hawthorne and bears his baby. As the latest fervent tribute to the Power of Literature and ...

who last year published her findings in an article in the Nathaniel Hawthorne Review, a journal featuring essays, notes, queries, book reviews, and bibliographies on the writer’s life and works.