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Hawthorne: Collected Novels (Library of America)

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts, the son and grandson of proud New England seafarers. He lived in genteel poverty with his widowed mother and two young sisters in a house filled with Puritan ideals and family pride in a prosperous past. His boyhood was, in most respects, pleasant and normal. In 1825 he was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and he returned to Salem determined to become a writer of short stories. For the next twelve years he was plagued with unhappiness and self-doubts as he struggled to master his craft. He finally secured some small measure of success with the publication of his Twice-Told Tales (1837). His marriage to Sophia Peabody in 1842 was a happy one. The Scarlet Letter (1850), which brought him immediate recognition, was followed by The House of the Seven Gables (1851). After serving four years as the American Consul in Liverpool, England, he traveled in Italy; he returned home to Massachusetts in 1860. Depressed, weary of writing, and failing in health, he died on May 19, 1864, at Plymouth, New Hampshire.

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ISBN:: 9780940450080
Editor:: Bell, Millicent
Author:: Bell, Millicent
Author:: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Publisher:: Library of America
Location:: New York :
Subject:: Fiction
Subject:: Classics
Subject:: American fiction (fictional works by one author)
Subject:: American fiction (fictional works by one auth
Subject:: Literature-A to Z
Edition Description:: B-Hardcover
Series:: Library of America (Hardcover)
Series Volume:: 9510
Publication Date:: 19830431
Binding:: HARDCOVER
Grade Level:: from 12
Language:: English
Illustrations:: Yes
Pages:: 1272
Dimensions:: 8.12x5.24x1.51 in. 1.77 lbs.
Age Level:: from 18

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