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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Nathaniel Hathorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and Elizabeth Clarke Manning Hathorne. He later changed his name to "Hawthorne",...
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter (1850) is a novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, considered to be his "magnum opus". Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth after committing adultery and struggles to create a new...
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- 1850
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The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance (1852) is Nathaniel Hawthorne's third major romance. In Hawthorne (1879), Henry James called it "the lightest, the brightest, the liveliest" of Hawthorne's "unhumorous fictions."
The principal setting is a communal farm called...
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Fanshawe
Fanshawe is a novel written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was his first published work, which he published anonymously in 1828.
Fanshawe was based on Hawthorne's experiences as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in the early 1820s. He...
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- 1828
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Young Goodman Brown
"Young Goodman Brown" (1835) is a short story by American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The story takes place in Puritan New England, a common setting for Hawthorne's works, and addresses one of his common themes: the conflict between good and evil in...
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- 1835
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The Marble Faun
The Marble Faun (1860) was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne. After writing The Blithedale Romance in 1852, Hawthorne, approaching fifty, turned away from publication and obtained a political appointment as American Consul...
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- 1860
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The Minister's Black Veil
"The Minister's Black Veil" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was first published in the 1836 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, edited by Samuel Goodrich. It later appeared in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short...
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Rappaccini's Daughter
"Rappaccini's Daughter" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1844 concerning a medical researcher in medieval Padua. It was published in the collection Mosses from an Old Manse.
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified...
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- 1844
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Mosses from an Old Manse
Mosses from an Old Manse was a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846.
The collection included several previously-published short stories and was named in honor of The Old Manse where Hawthorne and his wife lived for...
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- 1846
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The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales was the final collection of short stories published by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his lifetime, appearing in 1852.
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- 1852
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The Birth-Mark
"The Birth-Mark" is a romantic short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that examines obsession with human perfection. It was first published in the March, 1843 edition of The Pioneer. It later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse, a collection of...
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Twice-Told Tales
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne first published in the spring of 1837. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name.
Hawthorne was encouraged to collect...
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- 1837
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The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables is a novel written in 1851 by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is a recognized classic of American literature.
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The Pyncheon family actually existed and were ancestors of American novelist Thomas...
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- 1851
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Feathertop
"Feathertop" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1852.
In seventeenth century New England, the witch Mother Rigby builds a scarecrow to protect her garden. She is so taken with her own handiwork that she whimsically decides...
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The Ambitious Guest
"The Ambitious Guest" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. First published in New-England Magazine in June of 1835, it is better known for its publication in the second volume of Twice-Told Tales in 1835.
A man visits a family on a mountain side...
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Ethan Brand
"Ethan Brand—A Chapter from an Abortive Romance" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1850.
The story begins with a lime-burner called Bartram and his son hearing a disturbing roar of laughter echo through the twilight in the...
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P.'s Correspondence
"P.'s Correspondence" is a 1845 short story by the 19th century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, constituting a pioneering work of alternate history. Some consider it the very first such work in the English language (depending on whether or not...
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Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
"Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, about a scientist who claims to have been sent water from the Fountain of Youth. It was eventually published in Hawthorne's collection Twice-Told Tales in 1837.
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My Kinsman, Major Molineux
"My Kinsman, Major Molineux" is a short story written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne in 1831. It first appeared in the 1832 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, published by Samuel Goodrich. It later appeared in The Snow-Image, and...
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The Maypole of Merry Mount
"The Maypole of Merry Mount" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories, in 1837.
The people of Merrymount, whom Hawthorne calls the "crew of Comus," celebrate the marriage of a...
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The Great Carbuncle
"The Great Carbuncle" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It first appeared in Twice-Told Tales, a collection of short stories, in 1837.
In the White Mountains, a band of eight adventurers gathers together. They are each on a personal quest for...
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The Man of Adamant
"The Man of Adamant" is a short story written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was published in the 1837 edition of The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, edited by Samuel Goodrich. It later appeared in his collection of short stories The Snow-Image, and Other...
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Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent
"Egotism; or, The Bosom-Serpent" is a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The author originally intended for the story to appear in a collection entitled Allegories of the Heart. It was first published in the March, 1843 edition of The United States...
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Pandora's box
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Great Gatsby
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Main-Street
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seven vagabonds
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Lord of Flies
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Contes et récits
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Our Old Home
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