Librarian Note: 31 Selections; Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140390575
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, 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. --back cover
Hollow of the Three Hills Sir William Phips Mrs. Hutchinson Wives of the Dead My Kinsman, Major Molineux Roger Malvin's Burial Passages from a Relinquished Work Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Haunted Mind Alice Doane's Appeal Gray Champion Young Goodman Brown Wakefield Notch of the White Mountains Ambitious Guest May-Pole of Merry Mount Minister's Black Veil Sunday at Home Man of Adamant Endicott and the Red Cross Night Sketches Legens of the Province-House Hall of Fantasy Birthmark Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent Christmas Banquet Celestial Railroad Earth's Holocaust Artist of the Beautiful Rappacini’s Daughter Ethan Brand
Librarian Note: 31 Selections; Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140390575
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, 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. --back cover
Hollow of the Three Hills Sir William Phips Mrs. Hutchinson Wives of the Dead My Kinsman, Major Molineux Roger Malvin's Burial Passages from a Relinquished Work Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe Haunted Mind Alice Doane's Appeal Gray Champion Young Goodman Brown Wakefield Notch of the White Mountains Ambitious Guest May-Pole of Merry Mount Minister's Black Veil Sunday at Home Man of Adamant Endicott and the Red Cross Night Sketches Legens of the Province-House Hall of Fantasy Birthmark Egotism; or the Bosom-Serpent Christmas Banquet Celestial Railroad Earth's Holocaust Artist of the Beautiful Rappacini’s Daughter Ethan Brand